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Reminder: Logic Education Webinar on August 11 at 6:30 pm

by Madhavan Mukund

----- 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

===================================================================== *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

----- 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

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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Call for Presentations || IICT 2025

by Uday Khedker

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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Logic education webinar on August 11 at 6-30 pm

by Madhavan Mukund

----- 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

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(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

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

============================================================ 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

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

*[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

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

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

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

*[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

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

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

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

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

================================================================================ 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

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

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

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

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

----- 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. 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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. 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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

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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Webinar on logic education

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----- 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 EST, 1200 GMT, 1400 CET, 1930 IST, 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, 2011, 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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Call For Papers - APLAS 2025, Bengaluru, India

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message from Pritam Gharat <pritamgharat(a)microsoft.com> ----- From: Pritam Gharat <pritamgharat(a)microsoft.com> To: "fmindia-owner(a)cmi.ac.in" <fmindia-owner(a)cmi.ac.in> Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:02:46 +0000 Subject: Call For Papers - APLAS 2025, Bengaluru, India CALL FOR PAPERS: The 23rd Asian Symposium on Programing Languages and Systems (APLAS 2025) 27-30 October 2025, Bangalore, India APLAS 2025 - The 23rd Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems - APLAS 2025<https://conf.researchr.org/track/aplas-2025/aplas-2025-aplas-2025> AIM AND SCOPE: APLAS 2025 is the 23rd in a series of symposia that solicits submissions in the form of regular research papers describing original scientific research results, including system development and case studies. Among others, solicited topics include: * Programming paradigms and styles: functional, object-oriented, probabilistic, logic, constraint programming; extensible programming languages; programming languages for systems code; novel programming paradigms; * Methods and tools to specify and reason about programs and languages: programming techniques; meta-programming; domain-specific languages; proof assistants; type systems; dependent types; program logics, static and dynamic program analysis; language-based security; model checking; testing; * Programming language foundations: formal semantics; type theory; logical foundations; category theory; automata; effects; monads and comonads; recursion and corecursion; continuations and effect handlers; program verification; memory models; abstract interpretation; * Methods and tools for implementation: compilers; program transformations; rewriting systems; partial evaluation; virtual machines; refactoring; intermediate languages; run-time environments; garbage collection and memory management; tracing; profiling; build systems; program synthesis; * Concurrency and distribution: process algebras; concurrency theory; session types; parallel programming; service-oriented computing; distributed and mobile computing; actor-based languages; verification and testing of concurrent and distributed systems; * Applications and emerging topics: programming languages and PL methods in education, security, privacy, database systems, computational biology, signal processing, graphics, human-computer interaction, computer-aided design, artificial intelligence and machine learning; case studies in program analysis and verification. IMPORTANT DATES (all deadlines in AoE): * Paper submission deadline: April 18, 2025 * Tutorials and Workshops: October 27, 2025 * Conference: October 28 – October 30, 2025 SUBMISSIONS: APLAS welcomes submissions that should not exceed 17 pages, excluding bibliography, in the Springer LNCS format. 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. However, the paper must be understandable without the appendix. Reviewers are not obligated to review it. Papers should be submitted via HotCRP: https://aplas25.hotcrp.com/ GENERAL CHAIR: Pritam Gharat, Microsoft Reasearch, India, pritamgharat(a)microsoft.com<mailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com><mailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3cmailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3e> LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR: Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti, IIIT-Bangalore, India, sujitkc(a)iiitb.ac.in<mailto:<mailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3cmailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3e>sujitkc(a)iiitb.ac.in><mailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3cmailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3e> PROGRAM CHAIRS: Alex Potanin, Australian National University, Alex.Potanin(a)anu.edu.au<mailto:<mailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3cmailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3e>Alex.Potanin(a)anu.edu.au><mailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3cmailto:pritamgharat@microsoft.com%3e> PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alex Potanin, Australian National University Alexander Bakst, Certora Swarnendu Biswas, IIT Kanpur Andreea Costea, TU Delft Meenakshi D'Souza, IIITB - International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore Jeffrey S. Foster, Tufts University Kihong Heo, KAIST Zhenjiang Hu, Peking University Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University Stephen Kell, King's College London Oleg Kiselyov, Tohoku University V Krishna Nandivada, IIT Madras Liyi Li, Iowa State University Umang Mathur, National University of Singapore Kartik Nagar, IIT Madras Liam O'Connor, Australian National University Lionel Parreaux, HKUST (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Sanjiva Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi G. Ramalingam, Microsoft Ina Schaefer, KIT KC Sivaramakrishnan, IIT Madras and Tarides Tachio Terauchi, Waseda University Manas Thakur, IIT Bombay Pascal Weisenburger, University of St. Gallen ----- End forwarded message -----

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Senior Project Associate/Postdoc Position - Model Checking/Formal Verification/Software Engineering

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NETYS 2025 - Extended deadline

by Madhavan Mukund

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

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FMCAD 2025 - 2nd Call for Papers

by Daniela Kaufmann

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

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Alastair Donaldson on March 4 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

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

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

(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

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

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

[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

--------------- 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

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

-------------------------- 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

============================================================ 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

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

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % 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

================================================================================ * 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

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

============================================================ 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

6 months, 3 weeks

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World Logic Day 2025 celebrations by ALI

by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com

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. ---

6 months, 3 weeks

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Message about FMIndia subscription being disabled

by Madhavan Mukund

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.

6 months, 4 weeks

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World Logic Day talk by Prof. Moshe Vardi | Today, 14 January

by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com

================== 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.

6 months, 4 weeks

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NETYS 2025 - First Call for Papers

by Madhavan Mukund

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>

6 months, 4 weeks

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Invitation to the conference: "Recent Trends in Logic and Game Theory"

by Purbita Jana

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

6 months, 4 weeks

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ICLA 2025: Early bird registration deadline extension

by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com

====================== 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

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

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

============================================================ 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

--------------------------- 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

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

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

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

====================== 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

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

================== 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

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

===================================================== 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

7 months, 2 weeks

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ICLA 2025: Call for Posters

by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com

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

====================== 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

===================================================== 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

8 months

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Senior Project Associate/Postdoc Position - Model Checking & Formal Verification (Arpit Sharma)

by Arpit Sharma

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/

8 months

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Lead Software Engineer position in Jasper/Cadence

by Ravi Prakash

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

8 months, 2 weeks

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ICISS 2024 - Call for Participation

by Madhavan Mukund

----- 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 -----

8 months, 2 weeks

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Senior Project Associate/Postdoc Position - Model Checking and Formal Verification

by Arpit Sharma

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

============================================================ 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

*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

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% % 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

[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

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

*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

(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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

10 months, 2 weeks

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VMCAI 2025: Call for Papers

by Akshay

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

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

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

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

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

===================================================== 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

============ 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

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

===================================================== 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

============ 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

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

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

----- 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

============ 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

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

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

================================================= 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

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

----- 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

=================================================== 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

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

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

=================================================== 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

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

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

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

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

============ 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

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

===================================================== 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

----- 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

===================================================== 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

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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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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[extended June 23] CBT 2024 - CFP - International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (co-located with ESORICS)

by Cristina Pérez Solà

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 8th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2024 (in conjunction with ESORICS 2024 and DPM 2024) September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland Website: http://cbtworkshop.org/ ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Submission deadline: **June 23, 2024 (extended)** * Notification to authors: July 22, 2024 * Camera-ready versions: August 19, 2024 ********************************************************************* ================= WORKSHOP HISTORY ================= Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed with different success. While some of them are slightly different copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the proposed systems are often skipped. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems. The main topics include (but are not limited to): * Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies * Privacy-preserving technologies * Cryptocurrency based trust systems * Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies * Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems * Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies * Application and service cases of distributed ledgers technologies * P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis * Private transactions in blockchain based systems * New usages of the blockchain technology * Scalability solutions for blockchain systems * Blockchain-defined networking * Smart contracts * Distributed Identity Management * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance * Blockhain Protocols and algorithms * Transaction Monitoring and Analysis * Token Economy, finance and payments * Consensus mechanisms * On-chain and off-chain code synergies * Oracles, DeFi, and non-fungible tokens * Decentralized applications and protocols * Blockchain as a service =================== SUBMISSION DETAILS =================== Regular and short papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to 16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references and appendices, and can be submitted as PDF via the CBT 2024 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2024 *Double blind review*: CBT requires anonymized submissions -- please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Accepted regular papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. ================== PROGRAM COMMITEE ================== PC Chairs: Sergi Delgado-Segura - Chaincode Labs Cristina Perez-Sola - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona PC Members: Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg Mauro Conti - University of Padua Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Hannes Hartenstein - KIT Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Jiasun Li - George Mason University Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Virginia Tech and Georgetown University Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Dongming Peng - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin Florian Tschorsch - Technische Universitat Berlin Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute ================== 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 CBT 2024 can be found at http://cbtworkshop.org/ Kindly contact us at cbt2024(a)easychair.org in case of doubts or questions. -- *Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament al seu destinatari i pot contenir informació confidencial. Si no sou el destinatari indicat, no utilitzeu, divulgueu ni copieu sense autorització el contingut del missatge. *Si heu rebut aquest missatge per error, us demanem que ens ho feu saber immediatament per aquesta via i que el destruïu.** *El responsable de les dades facilitades en aquest correu és la UOC; la finalitat és mantenir la relació contractual o facilitar-vos la informació que necessiteu. Les dades podran conservar-se mentre es mantingui la relació o s'hagi donat per resolta la sol·licitud d'informació. 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[extended June 23] DPM 2024 - cfp - Data Privacy Manamgement, co-located with ESORICS 2024, Sep 19

by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas

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 23, 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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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Kartik Nagar on June 4 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Kartik Nagar, an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 04, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWlzcXUyN2…> ). 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: Specifying and Verifying Correctness of Mergeable Replicated Data Types Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Modern decentralized applications often use multiple replicas/copies of data, each of which can be independently operated, to minimize data access latency, provide fault tolerance and improve scalability. Mergeable Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) have emerged as a systematic approach to the problem of ensuring that replicas remain eventually consistent despite concurrent conflicting updates. MRDTs draw inspiration from the Git version control system, where each update creates a new version and any two versions can be merged explicitly through a user-defined merge function. The full flexibility offered by MRDTs in terms of creating and merging arbitrary versions severely complicates the design and development of correct MRDT implementations. In this talk, I will present two orthogonal approaches for specification and verification of MRDTs: a highly expressive, axiomatic event-based specification approach supported by a semi-automated verification procedure, and a more intuitive (but restrictive) linearizability based specification approach supported by fully automated verification. Bio: Kartik Nagar is an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. He completed his PhD from IISc Bangalore, after which he was a postdoc at Purdue University. His research interests are in Automated Formal Verification, Program Analysis and Programming Languages, with emphasis on developing practical verification techniques for concurrent and distributed systems.

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FSTTCS 2024 - Call for papers

by Shibashis Guha

December 16-18, 2023 at IIT Gandhinagar [1], India Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/ FSTTCS 2024 is the 44th conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS [2], the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science, in association with ACM India [3]. It is a forum for presenting original results in foundational aspects of Computer Science and Software Technology. INVITED SPEAKERS * Pankaj K Agarwal [4], Duke University * Suguman Bansal [5], Georgia Institute of Technology * Ioannis Caragiannis [6], Aarhus University * Dmitry Chistikov [7], University of Warwick * Uriel Feige [8], Weizmann Institute * Sebastian Siebertz [9], Universität Bremen IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are AoE) Abstract Submission: July 5, 2024 Paper Submission: July 12, 2024 Notification: September 16, 2024 Camera Ready: October 4, 2024 Conference: December 16-18, 2024 Workshops: TBA PAPER SUBMISSION Submissions must be in electronic form via EasyChair [10] using the LIPIcs LaTeX style file available here [11]. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages (excluding bibliography), but may include a clearly marked appendix containing technical details. The appendix will be read only at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions to journals or other conferences with published proceedings are disallowed. Reviewing for FSTTCS 2024 is double-blind. Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) [12] as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a CC-BY license [13]. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper in person at the conference. TOPICS TRACK A * Algebraic Complexity * Algorithms and Data Structures * Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics * Approximation Algorithms * Combinatorial Optimization * Communication Complexity * Computational Geometry * Computational Learning Theory * Cryptography and Security * Data Streaming and Sublinear algorithms * Economics and Computation * Parallel, Distributed and Online Algorithms * Parameterized Complexity * Proof Complexity * Quantum Computing * Randomness in Computing * Theoretical Aspects of Computational Biology * Theoretical Aspects of Mobile and High-Performance Computing TRACK B * Automata, Games and Formal Languages * Logic in Computer Science * Modal and Temporal Logics * Models of Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems * Models of Timed, Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic and Quantum Systems * Model Theory * Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages * Program Analysis and Transformation * Security protocols * Specification, Verification and Synthesis * Theorem Proving and Decision Procedures PROGRAM COMMITTEE TRACK A * Aritra Banik [14] (National Institute of Science Education and Research) * Siddharth Barman [15] (Indian Institute of Science) - Track A Chair * Umang Bhaskar [16] (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) * Diptarka Chakraborty [17] (National University of Singapore) * Debarati Das [18] (Pennsylvania State University) * Klim Efremenko [19] (Ben-Gurion University) * Sushmita Gupta [20] (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences) * Rohit Gurjar [21] (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) * Arindam Khan [22] (Indian Institute of Science) * Neeldhara Misra [23] (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar) * Rajat Mittal [24] (Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur) * Kamesh Munagala [25] (Duke University) * Prajakta Nimbhorkar [26] (Chennai Mathematical Institute) * Manisha Padala [27] (Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar) * Jaikumar Radhakrishnan [28] (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) * Nidhi Rathi [29] (Max Planck Institute for Informatics, University of Saarland) * Ramprasad Saptharishi [30] (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research) * Sahil Singla [31] (Georgia Tech) * Makrand Sinha [32] (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) * Seeun William Umboh [33] (The University of Melbourne) * Santhoshini Velusamy [34] (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago) * Michał Włodarczyk [35] (University of Warsaw) * Meirav Zehavi [36] (Ben-Gurion University) TRACK B * Parosh Aziz Abdulla [37] (Uppsala University) * C. Aiswarya [38] (Chennai Mathematical Institute) * S. Akshay [39] (Indian Institute of Technology Bombay) * Christel Baier [40] (Technical University Dresden) * Laure Daviaud [41] (University of East Anglia) * Sibylle Fröschle [42] (Technical University Hamburg) * Blaise Genest [43] (CNRS) * Stefan Haar [44] (INRIA, France) * Christoph Haase [45] (University of Oxford) * Petr Jančar [46] (Palacky University, Olomouc) * Ismaël Jecker [47] (University of Franche-Comté) * Edon Kelmendi [48] (Queen Mary University of London) * Sławomir Lasota [49] (University of Warsaw) - Track B Chair * Ranko Lazic [50] (University of Warwick) * Christof Löding [51] (RWTH Aachen) * Meena Mahajan [52] (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences) * Jean-Francois Raskin [53] (Université Libre de Bruxelles) * Nathalie Sznajder [54] (Sorbonne University) Links: ------ [1] https://iitgn.ac.in [2] http://www.iarcs.org.in [3] https://india.acm.org [4] https://users.cs.duke.edu/~pankaj/ [5] https://suguman.github.io [6] https://cs.au.dk/~iannis/ [7] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/dmitry_chistikov/ [8] https://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~feige/ [9] https://www.uni-bremen.de/en/theorie/team/profiles/prof-dr-sebastian-sieber… [10] https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fsttcs2024 [11] https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors [12] https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/ [13] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ [14] https://www.niser.ac.in/~aritra/ [15] https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~barman/ [16] https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~umang/ [17] https://sites.google.com/view/diptarka [18] https://sites.google.com/view/debaratidas [19] https://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~klim/ [20] https://sites.google.com/view/sushmitagupta/home [21] https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~rgurjar/ [22] https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~arindamkhan/ [23] https://www.neeldhara.com [24] https://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/rmittal/ [25] https://www.kameshmunagala.org [26] https://www.cmi.ac.in/~prajakta/ [27] https://sites.google.com/view/manishapadala/home [28] https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~jaikumar/ [29] https://sites.google.com/view/nidhirathi/ [30] https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~ramprasad/ [31] https://faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~ssingla7/ [32] https://makrandsinha.github.io [33] https://williamumboh.com [34] https://sites.google.com/view/santhoshinivelusamy [35] https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~mw277619/ [36] https://sites.google.com/site/zehavimeirav/ [37] https://user.it.uu.se/~parosh/ [38] https://www.cmi.ac.in/~aiswarya/ [39] https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~akshayss/ [40] https://wwwtcs.inf.tu-dresden.de/~baier/ [41] https://research-portal.uea.ac.uk/en/persons/laure-daviaud [42] https://www.sibylle-froeschle.de [43] https://perso.crans.org/genest/ [44] http://www.lsv.fr/~haar/ [45] https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/christoph.haase/home/ [46] https://www.inf.upol.cz/lide/petr-jancar [47] https://ismaeljecker.github.io [48] https://edon.github.io [49] https://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~sl/ [50] https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/people/ranko_lazic/ [51] https://www.lics.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/ocsx/lidx/1 [52] https://www.imsc.res.in/~meena/ [53] https://verif.ulb.ac.be/jfr/ [54] https://lip6.fr/Nathalie.Sznajder/

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CBT 2024 - CFP - International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (co-located with ESORICS)

by Cristina Pérez Solà

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 8th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2024 (in conjunction with ESORICS 2024 and DPM 2024) September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland Website: http://cbtworkshop.org/ ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Submission deadline: June 6, 2024 * Notification to authors: July 22, 2024 * Camera-ready versions: August 19, 2024 ********************************************************************* ================= WORKSHOP HISTORY ================= Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed with different success. While some of them are slightly different copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the proposed systems are often skipped. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems. The main topics include (but are not limited to): * Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies * Privacy-preserving technologies * Cryptocurrency based trust systems * Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies * Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems * Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies * Application and service cases of distributed ledgers technologies * P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis * Private transactions in blockchain based systems * New usages of the blockchain technology * Scalability solutions for blockchain systems * Blockchain-defined networking * Smart contracts * Distributed Identity Management * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance * Blockhain Protocols and algorithms * Transaction Monitoring and Analysis * Token Economy, finance and payments * Consensus mechanisms * On-chain and off-chain code synergies * Oracles, DeFi, and non-fungible tokens * Decentralized applications and protocols * Blockchain as a service =================== SUBMISSION DETAILS =================== Regular and short papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to 16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references and appendices, and can be submitted as PDF via the CBT 2024 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2024 *Double blind review*: CBT requires anonymized submissions -- please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Accepted regular papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. ================== PROGRAM COMMITEE ================== PC Chairs: Sergi Delgado-Segura - Chaincode Labs Cristina Perez-Sola - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona PC Members: Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg Mauro Conti - University of Padua Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Hannes Hartenstein - KIT Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Jiasun Li - George Mason University Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Virginia Tech and Georgetown University Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Dongming Peng - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin Florian Tschorsch - Technische Universitat Berlin Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute ================== 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 CBT 2024 can be found at http://cbtworkshop.org/ Kindly contact us at cbt2024(a)easychair.org in case of doubts or questions. -- *Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament al seu destinatari i pot contenir informació confidencial. Si no sou el destinatari indicat, no utilitzeu, divulgueu ni copieu sense autorització el contingut del missatge. *Si heu rebut aquest missatge per error, us demanem que ens ho feu saber immediatament per aquesta via i que el destruïu.** *El responsable de les dades facilitades en aquest correu és la UOC; la finalitat és mantenir la relació contractual o facilitar-vos la informació que necessiteu. Les dades podran conservar-se mentre es mantingui la relació o s'hagi donat per resolta la sol·licitud d'informació. 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Formal Methods Update Meeting 2024

by Ramchandra Phawade

Dear all, The Formal Methods Update Meeting 2024 will be held as a physical meeting at IIT Dharwad during 11th July - 13th July, 2024. Please visit the website https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/update2024/ 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 fmupdatemeet2024(a)gmail.com. Best regards, Organizing Committee, FM Update Meeting 2024

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Kartik Nagar on June 4 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Kartik Nagar, an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 04, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWlzcXUyN2…> ). 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: Specifying and Verifying Correctness of Mergeable Replicated Data Types Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Modern decentralized applications often use multiple replicas/copies of data, each of which can be independently operated, to minimize data access latency, provide fault tolerance and improve scalability. Mergeable Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) have emerged as a systematic approach to the problem of ensuring that replicas remain eventually consistent despite concurrent conflicting updates. MRDTs draw inspiration from the Git version control system, where each update creates a new version and any two versions can be merged explicitly through a user-defined merge function. The full flexibility offered by MRDTs in terms of creating and merging arbitrary versions severely complicates the design and development of correct MRDT implementations. In this talk, I will present two orthogonal approaches for specification and verification of MRDTs: a highly expressive, axiomatic event-based specification approach supported by a semi-automated verification procedure, and a more intuitive (but restrictive) linearizability based specification approach supported by fully automated verification. Bio: Kartik Nagar is an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. He completed his PhD from IISc Bangalore, after which he was a postdoc at Purdue University. His research interests are in Automated Formal Verification, Program Analysis and Programming Languages, with emphasis on developing practical verification techniques for concurrent and distributed systems.

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Fwd: Post-doc position at National University of Singapore

by Abhik Roychoudhury

Applications are invited for one post-doctoral position at the National University of Singapore (NUS) focusing on *Automatic Programming**.* This position will be part of a Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE) Tier 3, multi-year research program named "Automated Program Repair" which has been funded 2022-2027. This is a large research program involving several research projects in analysis, verification, test generation and applications related to program repair and automatic programming. To find out about work done in the area of program repair at NUS, kindly see the webpage *https://nus-apr.github.io/* The work will involve assured autonomy in software engineering by expanding on the recent activity of the group in building *AutoCodeRover*, available in arxiv. Specfically the work will be a combination of genAI and formal methods. /https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05427 / /https://twitter.com/AbhikRoychoudh1/status/1777494000611852515/ Interested applicants are encouraged to start up a conversation with Abhik Roychoudhury by emailing their CV, see https://abhikrc.com/ for contact details. -- -Abhik Roychoudhury School of Computing National University of Singapore https://abhikrc.com

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DPM 2024 - cfp - Data Privacy Manamgement, co-located with ESORICS 2024, Sep 19

by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Data Privacy Management (DPM 2024 ) 18th International Workshop September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland (co-located with ESORICS 2024) website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/ ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Submission Deadline: -- June 6, 2024 Notification: -- July 7, 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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UbiSec 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 July 2024

by Qin Liu

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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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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Call for Participation: DFIR Streams 0xA & 0xB

by Andrew Zayine

Dear All, The Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community invites you to join us for our next webinars: "DFIR Stream 0xA" on Tuesday, May 21,⋅2:00 – 3:00 pm (BST) UK Time Title: "Deconstructing the Analyst Mindset", by Dr. Chris Sanders, Founder of Applied Network Defense, United States Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xa "DFIR Stream 0xB" on Tuesday, May 28, 4:00 – 5:00 pm (BST) UK Time Title: How to Detect when Residential IP Proxies are Used as a Botnet, by Dr. Elisa Chiapponi, Amadeus IT Group, France Register@ https://www.acfti.org/news-events/dfir-stream-0xb - Note that this event is online only. Hence, You must register to receive a link to connect. Due to limited availability, we kindly ask you to register as soon as possible to ensure your participation in the webinar of your choice. - For Students, A certificate of successful participation in the event will be delivered upon request for free (after verifying attendance), indicating the number of hours of the seminar (please make sure that you add the correct name in the registration form). This should be sufficient for those participants who plan to request ECTS recognition from their home university. Join us &stay tuned! #CyberSecurity #AnalystMindset #MachineLearning #AnomalyDetection Finally, I would like to remind you that the call for speakers is currently open on the dedicated DFIR stream website, https://dfir.stream/call-for-guest-speakers This event is brought to you by CFTIRC (Cyber Forensics & Threat Investigations Research Community). Best regards, ACFTI Secretariat

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Call for paper: Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis

by Priyanka Golia

Dear all, This is a call for papers for the Workshop on Counting, Sampling, and Synthesis (MCW) 2024. 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 2024. The workshop covers advanced topics such as weighted and projected counters/samplers, and various domains such as SAT, SMT, ASP, and CP. This year, 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 2024, <http://satisfiability.org/SAT24/cfw.php> and will be held in Pune, India. For more information visit the website: https://mccompetition.org/2024/mcw_description.html Regards, Priyanka Golia – On behalf of the workshop organizers: Paulius Dilkas and Priyanka Golia

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UbiSec 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 July 2024

by Qin Liu

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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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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ISLA 2024 (Call for Participation)

by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com

=================================================== 10th Indian School on Logic and its Applications (ISLA) (CALL FOR PARTICIPATION) =================================================== Dates: 3 - 7 June 2024 Venue: IIT Goa, India Website: https://iitgoa.ac.in/ISLA24/index.php The 10th Indian School on Logic and its Applications will take place at IIT Goa from 3rd to 7th June, 2024. The summer school's short classes will focus on Automata & Semigroups and on Infinite Game Theory. The registration is open and will be available until May 20, 2024. The school welcomes students from all over the world and from diverse fields of study, including Mathematics, Philosophy, Computer Science, Linguistics, and other related areas. The invited speakers are: Infinite Games: Dr. Juan P. Aguilera Project Leader Vienna University of Technology Scientific collaborator Department of Mathematics of Ghent University Automata & Semigroups: 1. Dr. K. Narayan Kumar Professor kumar{at}cmi.ac.in Chennai Mathematical Institute 2. Dr. Kamal Lodaya Retired Professor kamal{at}imsc.res.in The Institute of Mathematical Sciences 3. Dr. Amaldev Manuel Associate Professor amal{at}iitgoa.ac.in Indian Institute Of Technology, Goa ISLA is a biennial event of the Association for Logic in India (https://logicindia.org). Past editions of the school were held in IIT Kanpur, IISER Bhopal, IIEST Shibpur, VIT Vellore, Jadavpur University, PSG College of Technology, Tezpur University, Manipal University, University of Hyderabad and IIT Bombay.

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UbiSec 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 July 2024

by Qin Liu

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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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Sumanth Prabhu on May 7 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Sumanth Prabhu, a scientist in the Foundations of Computing group at TCS Research. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 07, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzZsODVrdD…> ). 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: Weakest Precondition Inference for Linear Array Programs Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The problem of precondition inference is to find a set of initial states from which all terminating executions of a given program reach states that satisfy a given postcondition. The weakest precondition refers to the largest such set of initial states. The weakest precondition is helpful in many practical problems around software development, verification, and testing. Hence, its automatic inference is an important problem and has received considerable attention. However, existing techniques find it challenging to handle programs with arrays. In this talk, I will present our technique to find quantified weakest preconditions for programs with arrays. Our technique is effective on a class of programs called linear array programs. We prove that linear array programs' weakest precondition computation is undecidable. Nevertheless, such programs often appear in practice. Hence, many array works target them but for verification, not precondition inference. We propose a precondition inference technique in the Infer-Check-Weaken framework. It first infers a precondition along with adequate inductive invariants. A maximality check follows to see whether the precondition is the weakest. If not, the precondition is weakened. In this framework, we present novel methods for each module. We experimentally show that our technique is significantly better than the state-of-the-art over a set of existing linear array programs. Bio: Sumanth Prabhu works as a scientist in the Foundations of Computing group at TCS Research. He did his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he was advised by Deepak D'Souza. His current research focuses on formal verification and automated synthesis using constrained horn clauses.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Sumanth Prabhu on May 7 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Sumanth Prabhu, a scientist in the Foundations of Computing group at TCS Research. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, May 07, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzZsODVrdD…> ). 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: Weakest Precondition Inference for Linear Array Programs Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The problem of precondition inference is to find a set of initial states from which all terminating executions of a given program reach states that satisfy a given postcondition. The weakest precondition refers to the largest such set of initial states. The weakest precondition is helpful in many practical problems around software development, verification, and testing. Hence, its automatic inference is an important problem and has received considerable attention. However, existing techniques find it challenging to handle programs with arrays. In this talk, I will present our technique to find quantified weakest preconditions for programs with arrays. Our technique is effective on a class of programs called linear array programs. We prove that linear array programs' weakest precondition computation is undecidable. Nevertheless, such programs often appear in practice. Hence, many array works target them but for verification, not precondition inference. We propose a precondition inference technique in the Infer-Check-Weaken framework. It first infers a precondition along with adequate inductive invariants. A maximality check follows to see whether the precondition is the weakest. If not, the precondition is weakened. In this framework, we present novel methods for each module. We experimentally show that our technique is significantly better than the state-of-the-art over a set of existing linear array programs. Bio: Sumanth Prabhu works as a scientist in the Foundations of Computing group at TCS Research. He did his Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, where he was advised by Deepak D'Souza. His current research focuses on formal verification and automated synthesis using constrained horn clauses.

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MEMOCODE 2024: Call for Papers

by Srinivas Pinisetty

–Call for Papers -- MEMOCODE 2024 22nd ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Formal Methods and Models for System Design October 03-04, 2024, RALEIGH, NC, USA - Part of ESWEEK 2024 - https://memocode2024.github.io/ https://esweek.org/memocode/ IMPORTANT DATES · Abstract submission deadline: May 06, 2024 · Paper submission deadline: May 20, 2024 · Notification of acceptance: Jul 08, 2024 · Final version of papers: Jul 29, 2024 · Conference: Oct 03-04, 2024 MEMOCODE brings together researchers and practitioners interested in formal methods for system design and development, to exchange ideas, research results and lessons learned. The symposium focuses on the foundations and applications of formal methods in the development of hardware, firmware, middleware, and application software for systems, ranging from single embedded devices to highly networked cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things. MEMOCODE 2024 is a part of ESWEEK 2024, which will take place in RALEIGH, NC, USA. Registered attendees can attend sessions in any of the online events, including the conferences (CASES, CODES+ISSS, EMSOFT), symposia, tutorials, workshops, and education classes. Confirmed keynote speakers are Sanjit Seshia (University of California, Berkeley), and Taylor Johnson (Vanderbilt University). TOPICS OF INTEREST MEMOCODE solicits research papers on formal methods in system design that address the foundations, engineering methods, tools, or experimental case studies. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Modeling Languages, Methods, and Tools Programming languages and models; software and system modeling languages; architecture and high-level hardware description languages; timing models; model and program synthesis methods; model transformation methods. * Formal Methods and Tools Correct-by-construction methods; contract-based design and verification; static, dynamic, and type theoretic analysis; verification; validation; probabilistic model checking; test generation; refinement-based and compositional approaches to design and verification. * Models and Methods for Developing Critical Systems Fault-tolerant systems; security-critical and safety-critical systems; cyber-physical systems; hybrid systems; autonomous systems; self-adapting systems; systems that merge humans, artificial intelligence, and cyber-physical systems; societal-scale cyber-physical systems, such as connected vehicles and smart grids. * Quantitative/Qualitative Reasoning Power/performance/cost/latency estimation methods; system models for quantitative design space exploration * Formal Methods/Models in Practice Design case studies; empirical case studies SUBMISSIONS MEMOCODE calls for three kinds of submissions: regular papers, work-in-progress papers, and tool presentations. All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the IEEE Computer Society guidelines. Submission of papers is handled via hotCPR (https://memocode24.hotcrp.com). * Regular papers are no longer than 10 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices. They should describe original work that does not overlap with another publication or a submission under review or accepted for publication by any other conference or journal. Reviewers will check regular papers for the soundness and novelty of the proposed solutions. * Tool papers are no longer than 8 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices. They should describe an existing and publicly available tool that implements relevant methods. The methods might have been published before, but the tool should not have been described in a tool paper previously. In addition to reviewing the paper, reviewers will assess the tool itself using inputs and a user's manual provided by the authors on the tool's web page. * Work-in-progress (WIP) papers are no longer than 4 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices. They should describe ongoing work. Reviewers will judge the novelty of the idea, but do not yet expect proofs for the envisioned results. For questions regarding technical submissions, feel free to contact one of the program committee co-chairs. All accepted papers (regular papers, WIP papers, and tool papers) will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore subject to meeting IEEE Xplore's scope and quality requirements. Publication in the proceedings is contingent on one author registering for and presenting the paper at the conference. We will also plan for a special issue of the ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems for which selected papers will be invited for publication. The Program Committee will also select 1-2 papers for the Best Paper Award. . GENERAL CHAIRS Stephen A. Edwards, Columbia University, USA Claire Pagetti, ONERA, France PROGRAM CHAIRS Qi Zhu, Northwestern University, USA Srinivas Pinisetty, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar, India STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Jean-Pierre Talpin, Inria, France PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ansuman Banerjee, Indian Statistical Institute, India Chao Huang, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel Elizabeth Leonard, Naval Research Laboratory, United States Eunsuk Kang, Carnegie Mellon University, United States Inigo Incer, California Institute of Technology, United States Jean-Pierre Talpin, Inria, Rennes, France Jürgen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany Katell Morin-Allory, TIMA Laboratory, France Khaza Anuarul Hoque, University of Missouri, United States Klaus Schneider, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Luan Nguyen, University of Dayton, United States Luciano Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University, Sweden Martin Fränzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany Matthew Kuo, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Partha Roop, University of Auckland, New Zealand Patricia Derler, Zoox, United States Pavithra Prabhakar, Kansas State University, United States Pierluigi Nuzzo, University of Southern California, United States Purandar Bhaduri, IIT Guwahati, India Reinhard von Hanxleden, Kiel University, Germany Rick Kuhn, Natl Institute of Standards & Technology, United States Roberto Passerone, University of Trento, Italy Sandeep Shukla, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Sanjiva Prasad, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, United States and INSA/IETR, France Stavros Tripakis, Northeastern University, United States Sven Schewe, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Thao Dang, CNRS/VERIMAG, France Wenchao Li, Boston University, United States Xin Chen, University of New Mexico, United States Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Best Regards Dr. Srinivas Pinisetty Assistant Professor (CSE) School of Electrical Sciences Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar Odisha 752050, India https://www.iitbbs.ac.in/profile.php/srinivaspinisetty/

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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Postdoctoral fellowship: monitoring cyberphysical systems with quantities

by Étienne André

Dear all, A 12-month postdoctoral fellowship funded by CNRS on **monitoring cyberphysical systems with quantities** is available at LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, starting anytime (and in any case September 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 (preferred) at andre.etienne (at) lipn13 (dot) fr ; or direct application via https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7030-ETIAND-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN -- Étienne André Université Sorbonne Paris Nord https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~andre/

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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UbiSec 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 July 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of the 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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Internship announcement: Testing blockchain consensus protocol implementation

by M Praveen

Title: Test case generation for blockchain consensus protocol with the help of formal methods Achieving consistency in modern large-scale and fault-tolerant distributed systems often relies on intricate consensus protocols. Ensuring the reliability of implementations of such protocols remains a significant challenge because of the enormous number of exceptional conditions that may arise in production. Netrix is a tool and a methodology for testing such implementations that aims to exploit programmer's knowledge to improve coverage, enables robust bug reproduction, and can be used in regression testing across different versions of an implementation. This has been applied to Tendermint, a popular proof of stake blockchain protocol, Tendermint and to a popular benign consensus algorithm, Raft. It has been able to identify deviations of the implementation from the protocol specification and verify corrections on an updated implementation. The internship involves using the Netrix tool to test the chained Moonshot consensus protocol implementation, the protocol underlying Supra Oracle's block chain infrastructure. Time period: >= 6 months Remote Work Company: Supra Oracles, https://supra.com/ Contact: r.ramesh(a)supraoracles.com

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Internship announcement for static analysis of smart contracts

by M Praveen

Title: Static Analysis of EVM Bytecodes to determine an access specification of public entry functions Typically a smart contract has public entry functions that get called by the transactions. The scope of this internship is to determine "What data may be accessed by a public entry function?" using a standard program analysis technique. The internship involves finding the best research & tools available for such a project and implementing this static analysis and integrating into Supra technology stack. Time period: >= 4 months Remote Work Company: Supra Oracles, https://supra.com/ Contact: r.ramesh(a)supraoracles.com

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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Advertisement for 01 post of Post-Doctoral Fellow in Dept. of Computer Science, BHU Varanasi

by Dr. Anshul Verma

Ref. No: BHU/CS/AV/RJP-PDF/2024/02 Date: 03.04.2024 *Advertisement for 01 post of Post-Doctoral Fellow* Dear Prof., The Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, is inviting application for *ONE* post of *Raja Jwala Prasad Post-Doctoral Fellow* with a consolidated fellowship of Rs. 60,000/- per month + HRA (Rs. 10,000/- per month) and a contingency of Rs. 50,000/- per year in an IoE BHU Sponsored fellowship sanctioned up to 12 months from the date of joining of the Fellow. The position is purely temporary and may be extended for one more year based on performance and the availability of funds under IoE. *Essential Qualifications:* Research scholars who have done their PhD in a field related to Computer Science/Information Technology or equivalent from an Indian University/Institute with NIRF ranking of up to 20 (overall or in respective areas) or those who have done PhD from abroad will be eligible. The candidates must have proven track record with published work of at least two papers in Q1 or Q2 journals or Scopus/Web of Science listed journals. *Desirable Qualifications:* Candidates with research experience in the field of Distributed Computing and Cloud/Edge/Fog Computing will be preferred. *Upper Age Limit:* The upper age limit is 45 years (5 years relaxation for female/SC/ST/Physically Handicapped Candidate). All things being equal, SC/ST candidates will be preferred as per GOI rules. The Fellow will have access to comprehensive benefits, including health services, library and access to other university resources. *How to Apply:* Interested candidates may submit their applications by sending their CV (providing details of name, permanent and correspondence address, names of father and mother, telephone no., email address, details of educational career (starting from High School or equivalent), research or other experience, research publications etc.) along with self-attested copies of all mark-sheets & certificates to *Dr. Anshul Verma *through email on *anshulverma87(a)gmail.com <anshulverma87(a)gmail.com>; anshul.verma(a)bhu.ac.in <anshul.verma(a)bhu.ac.in>*. The applications should reach within *21 days* of the advertisement to the undersigned with subject line “*Raja Jwala Prasad Post-Doctoral Fellowship”*. Only short-listed candidates will be notified through email for interview. No TA/DA will be paid if called for interview. https://www.bhu.ac.in/Site/TempVacancyDetail/1_2_16?735 https://www.bhu.ac.in/ Thanks & Regards ------------------------------- *Dr. Anshul Verma* Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. - 221005 Mobile No: +91-9826074618

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Azadeh Farzan on April 2 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Azadeh Farzan, a Professor in the Computer Science Department of University of Toronto. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 02, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NGxmbmFvYX…> ). 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: Coarser Equivalences for Causal Concurrency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss relaxations of trace equivalence with the goal of maintaining its algorithmic advantages. Specifically, for the problem of checking, in a streaming setting, if two arbitrary steps of a concurrent program run are causally concurrent (i.e. they can be reordered in an equivalent run) or causally ordered (i.e. they always appear in the same order in all equivalent runs), trace equivalence yields constant-space algorithms. I will discuss how certain relaxations, provably, do not yield similar efficient algorithms. Then, I will introduce a new commutativity-based notion of equivalence called grain equivalence that is strictly more relaxed than trace equivalence, and yet yields a constant space algorithm for the same problem. This notion of equivalence uses commutativity of grains, which are sequences of atomic steps, in addition to the standard commutativity from trace theory. I will discuss two distinct cases when the grains are contiguous subwords of the input program run and when they are not, formulate the precise definition of causal concurrency in each case, and show that they can be decided in constant space, despite being strict relaxations of the notion of causal concurrency based on trace equivalence. Bio: Azadeh Farzan is a Professor in the Computer Science Department of University of Toronto. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her interests are in Software Verification, Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Security, with an emphasis on concurrency-related issues.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Azadeh Farzan on April 2 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Azadeh Farzan, a Professor in the Computer Science Department of University of Toronto. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, April 02, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NGxmbmFvYX…> ). 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: Coarser Equivalences for Causal Concurrency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, I will discuss relaxations of trace equivalence with the goal of maintaining its algorithmic advantages. Specifically, for the problem of checking, in a streaming setting, if two arbitrary steps of a concurrent program run are causally concurrent (i.e. they can be reordered in an equivalent run) or causally ordered (i.e. they always appear in the same order in all equivalent runs), trace equivalence yields constant-space algorithms. I will discuss how certain relaxations, provably, do not yield similar efficient algorithms. Then, I will introduce a new commutativity-based notion of equivalence called grain equivalence that is strictly more relaxed than trace equivalence, and yet yields a constant space algorithm for the same problem. This notion of equivalence uses commutativity of grains, which are sequences of atomic steps, in addition to the standard commutativity from trace theory. I will discuss two distinct cases when the grains are contiguous subwords of the input program run and when they are not, formulate the precise definition of causal concurrency in each case, and show that they can be decided in constant space, despite being strict relaxations of the notion of causal concurrency based on trace equivalence. Bio: Azadeh Farzan is a Professor in the Computer Science Department of University of Toronto. She received her PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her interests are in Software Verification, Programming Languages, Formal Methods, and Security, with an emphasis on concurrency-related issues.

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024

by Qin Liu

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of IEEE DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (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, and 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 Jun 2024 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. -- 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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QEST+FORMATS: Final Call for Papers

by Patrick Totzke

======================================================== FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================== The joint event for the International Conferences on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) and on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS) 9-13 September 2024, Calgary, Canada, as part of the CONFEST 2024 umbrella conference https://www.qest-formats.org/ IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) Abstract deadline: 10 April 2024 (Anytime on Earth) Paper deadline: 15 April 2024 (Anytime on Earth) Author notification: 31 May 2024 Camera ready submission: 17 June 2024 Conference: 9-13 September 2024 SCOPE AND TOPICS The two flagship conferences of QEST (International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems) and FORMATS (International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems) are pursuing a strategic process of joining forces and sparking a new joint conference for quantitative modelling, analysis, and verification. This year, the two conferences form the QEST+FORMATS joint conference in 2024, which will be held on 9-13 September 2024 in Calgary, Canada, as part of the CONFEST 2024 umbrella conference. The joint conference is the leading forum for the quantitative evaluation and verification of systems, which aims to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of systems with quantitative nature (such as probability, timing, and cost), and brings together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in the modelling, design and analysis of computational systems. Systems of interest include biological and chemical systems; computer networks; cyber-physical systems; critical infrastructures; data-driven AI systems; energy systems; hardware and software systems; industrial systems; and mobility networks. The QEST+FORMATS joint conference also aims to attract researchers interested in real-time issues in hardware design, performance analysis, real-time software, scheduling, semantics and verification of timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems. Topics and scientific areas of interest include: - Models and metrics for the correctness, performance, reliability, safety, and security of systems (stochastic, probabilistic, and non-deterministic models including Markov chains, Markov decision processes, automata, Petri nets, process algebra, max-plus algebra, and their variations); - Languages and methods for the specification of quantitative properties of systems; - Techniques, algorithms, and data structures for analysis, evaluation, and verification of the models mentioned above, e.g., for model checking, testing, constraint solving, scheduling, optimization, and worst-case execution time analysis; - Quantitative and probabilistic aspects of programming; - Data-driven and machine-learning techniques for the analysis, prediction, and verification of quantitative properties of systems; - Case studies that highlight the role of quantitative specification, modelling, and evaluation in the design and analysis of systems, with emphasis on emerging problems and technologies; - Novel software tools to support the practical application of research results in all of the above areas; The joint QEST+FORMATS conference is open to theoretical, experimental, and applicative research and will set up an artifact evaluation process. Papers may advance the state of the art on empirical approaches, simulation methods, analysis techniques, and applications to industrially relevant case studies. The joint conference will have two tracks associated with QEST and FORMATS. The authors are required to select one of these tracks when submitting their papers. This is only used to facilitate the review process. This year, QEST+FORMATS will incorporate a special session on: - Data-driven verification and synthesis of cyber-physical systems. We encourage the submission of papers on all data-driven approaches related to the formal analysis, verification, and synthesis of cyber-physical systems, including learning techniques for safety-critical systems and safe learning of such systems. SUBMISSIONS QEST+FORMATS 2024 considers three types of papers (authors will be able to specify the type of contribution upon submission): - Research papers: Theoretical, methodological, and application-based contributions that advance the understanding on a topic or issue, describe the development of new analysis processes and techniques, or apply quantitative methods to relevant case studies. - Tool papers: New tools and the formalisms they support. focusing on the software architecture and practical implementation and use. Tool papers must be accompanied by an artifact in the Artifact Evaluation. - Work-in-progress papers: We offer an opportunity to present preliminary results and receive feedback from the community. Work-in-progress contributions are not required to be fully worked-out approaches, for example regarding validation or technical depth; however the presented ideas should be mature enough to appreciate soundness and how they advance our knowledge. Research and tool papers can be regular or short: - Regular papers must not exceed 14 pages, excluding references. - Short papers should be limited to 7 pages, also excluding references. All papers can have an appendix containing supporting material. Note that reviewers are not required to read the appendix to fully assess the merits of the paper. Work-in-progress papers must not exceed 4 pages including references. All papers must be submitted in Springer’s LNCS format. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qestformats2024 Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use Springer’s LaTeX templates for the preparation of their papers. Submitted papers not complying with the above guidelines may be rejected without undergoing review. The top two best papers of the conference will be selected for the QEST Award and the FORMATS Oded Maler Award. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be presented and discussed at the conference by one of the authors. The QEST+FORMATS 2024 proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three reviewers on the basis of their originality, technical quality, scientific or practical contribution to the state of the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of references. ARTIFACT EVALUATION Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an atmosphere of trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and reward reproducibility, QEST+FORMATS 2024 includes a dedicated Artifact Evaluation (AE). Submission of an artifact is mandatory for tool papers (both regular and short), and optional but encouraged for research papers where it can support the results presented in the paper. Artifacts will be reviewed concurrently with the paper review process, and accepted papers with a successfully evaluated artifact will receive a badge to be shown on the published paper's title page. Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will be available on the conference website. Exceptions to the submission guidelines may be granted by the PC chairs in cases where the tool cannot in any reasonable way be run by the AE committee. SPECIAL ISSUES A selection of the best papers (excluding work-in-progress papers) will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to special issues in the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) and the Performance Evaluation (PEVA) journals. COMMITTEES Program Chairs Jane Hillston, Edinburgh University, UK Sadegh Soudjani, Max Planck Institute, Germany Track Chairs Morteza Lahijanian, UC Boulder, USA (QEST) Masaki Waga, Kyoto University, Japan (FORMATS) Publicity Chairs Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California, USA Patrick Totzke, University of Liverpool, UK Jie An, National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan Artifact Evaluation Chairs Tobias Meggendorfer, Lancaster University Leipzig, Germany Andrea Vandin, Sant'Anna School for Advanced Studies, Italy 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).

1 year, 4 months

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Suman Sadhukhan on March 19 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Suman Sadhukhan, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Haifa. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March 19, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M2xsZmdnaG…> ). 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: Bidding Games on Graphs - In theory and in practice. Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In a two-player zero-sum graph game, the players move a token throughout the game, producing an infinite play, which determines the winner of the game. Bidding games are graph games in which in each turn, a bidding (auction) determines which player moves the token: the players have budgets, and in each turn, both players simultaneously submit the bids that do not exceed the available budgets. The higher bidder moves the token, and pays the bid to the lower bidder (called Richman bidding). The standard solution concept of interest in bidding games are threshold budgets: the necessary and sufficient budget for winning the game. In this survey talk, on the theoretical side, we will explore discrete bidding games, where the keyword discrete stands for the bids having a fixed granularity. We obtain membership in NP ∩ coNP for solving parity bidding games with exponentially succinct representation. This will be followed by our newly proposed application of bidding games to a decentralized synthesis problem for multi-objective decision making. Here, synthesized policies express their scheduling urgency via bids and a bounded budget guarantees long-run fairness. Moreover, our proposed solution framework is modular, in the sense that if one objective changes, we may still combine the policy for the other objective without having the need to recompute it from scratch. These works have been in collaboration with Guy Avni and Kaushik Mallik. Bio: Suman Sadhukhan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Haifa, primarily working with Guy Avni on Bidding Games on Graphs. He obtained his PhD in 2022 from Inria Rennes where he was advised by Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey and Ocan Sankur, and worked on dynamic network congestion games from a verification perspective. He is interested in, but not restricted to, Games on Graphs, studying different game theoretic models from formal verification and reactive synthesis viewpoint. Prior to his PhD training, he was a student at Chennai Mathematical Institute where he studied Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics.

1 year, 4 months

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Suman Sadhukhan on March 19 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Suman Sadhukhan, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Haifa. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March 19, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=M2xsZmdnaG…> ). 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: Bidding Games on Graphs - In theory and in practice. Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In a two-player zero-sum graph game, the players move a token throughout the game, producing an infinite play, which determines the winner of the game. Bidding games are graph games in which in each turn, a bidding (auction) determines which player moves the token: the players have budgets, and in each turn, both players simultaneously submit the bids that do not exceed the available budgets. The higher bidder moves the token, and pays the bid to the lower bidder (called Richman bidding). The standard solution concept of interest in bidding games are threshold budgets: the necessary and sufficient budget for winning the game. In this survey talk, on the theoretical side, we will explore discrete bidding games, where the keyword discrete stands for the bids having a fixed granularity. We obtain membership in NP ∩ coNP for solving parity bidding games with exponentially succinct representation. This will be followed by our newly proposed application of bidding games to a decentralized synthesis problem for multi-objective decision making. Here, synthesized policies express their scheduling urgency via bids and a bounded budget guarantees long-run fairness. Moreover, our proposed solution framework is modular, in the sense that if one objective changes, we may still combine the policy for the other objective without having the need to recompute it from scratch. These works have been in collaboration with Guy Avni and Kaushik Mallik. Bio: Suman Sadhukhan is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Haifa, primarily working with Guy Avni on Bidding Games on Graphs. He obtained his PhD in 2022 from Inria Rennes where he was advised by Nathalie Bertrand, Nicolas Markey and Ocan Sankur, and worked on dynamic network congestion games from a verification perspective. He is interested in, but not restricted to, Games on Graphs, studying different game theoretic models from formal verification and reactive synthesis viewpoint. Prior to his PhD training, he was a student at Chennai Mathematical Institute where he studied Theoretical Computer Science and Mathematics.

1 year, 4 months

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Postdoctoral fellowship: monitoring cyberphysical systems with quantities

by Étienne André

Dear all, A 12-month postdoctoral fellowship funded by CNRS on *monitoring cyberphysical systems with quantities* is available at LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, starting anytime (and in any case September 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 (preferred) at andre.etienne (at) lipn13 (dot) fr ; or direct application via https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7030-ETIAND-002/Default.aspx?lang=EN Best, -- Étienne André Université Sorbonne Paris Nord https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~andre/

1 year, 5 months

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CFP IEEE Edge 2024, Shenzhen, China.

by Nitin Auluck

IEEE EDGE 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS https://conferences.computer.org/edge/2024/ Edge computing, as the convergence of computing and communications executed close to data collection and places of storage and application, provides a paradigm that offers several research and application opportunities across a wide range of domains. At the same time, it raises many fundamental and unprecedented research and development problems and challenges. The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2024) aims to continue to be recognized a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in state of the art and practice of edge computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of edge computing. IEEE EDGE is affiliated with IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES). IEEE EDGE 2024 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2024 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2024 invites original papers addressing all aspects related to edge computing theories, technologies and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: · Edge Computing Architectures · Edge Computing and Communications Theories · Edge Computing and Network Functions Virtualization · Edge Computing in Multi-cloud environments · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · Benchmarks and Workloads for Performance of Edge Systems · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Generative AI Continuum - from Edge to Cloud · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) * December 1, 2023: EasyChair open for DRAFT submissions * March 17, 2024: EasyChair closes for NEW submissions * March 24, 2024: EasyChair closes for revisions and uploads * May 6, 2024: Acceptance notification * July 7-13, 2024: SERVICES Congress in Shenzhen, China ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2024 GENERAL CHAIRS Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University Nirmit Desai, IBM Research Gopal Pingali, Accenture IEEE EDGE 2024 PROGRAM CHAIRS Javid Taheri, Karlstad University Shiqiang Wang, IBM Research K. V. Subramaniam, AMD IEEE EDGE 2024 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Honghao Gao, Shanghai University, China Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada (TBC) -- Dr. Nitin Auluck / डॉ. नितिन औलक | Associate Professor / सह - प्राध्यापक Room #114, S. Ramanujan Block / कमरा #११४, एस. रामानुजम ब्लॉक Department of Computer Science & Engineering / कंप्यूटर विज्ञान और अभियांत्रिकी विभाग Indian Institute of Technology Ropar / भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रोपड़ | Rupnagar, Punjab, India, 140001 / रूपनगर, पंजाब, भारत, १४०००१ nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in | nauluck(a)ieee.org | http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/cse/nitin -- **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.* *

1 year, 5 months

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QEST+FORMATS: Call for Papers

by Patrick Totzke

[Apologies for cross-posting] ======================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================== The joint event for the International Conferences on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems (QEST) and on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems (FORMATS) 9-13 September 2024, Calgary, Canada, as part of the CONFEST 2024 umbrella conference https://www.qest-formats.org/ IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) Abstract deadline: 10 April 2024 (Anytime on Earth) Paper deadline: 15 April 2024 (Anytime on Earth) Author notification: 31 May 2024 Camera ready submission: 17 June 2024 Conference: 9-13 September 2024 SCOPE AND TOPICS The two flagship conferences of QEST (International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems) and FORMATS (International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems) are pursuing a strategic process of joining forces and sparking a new joint conference for quantitative modelling, analysis, and verification. This year, the two conferences form the QEST+FORMATS joint conference in 2024, which will be held on 9-13 September 2024 in Calgary, Canada, as part of the CONFEST 2024 umbrella conference. The joint conference is the leading forum for the quantitative evaluation and verification of systems, which aims to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of systems with quantitative nature (such as probability, timing, and cost), and brings together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in the modelling, design and analysis of computational systems. Systems of interest include biological and chemical systems; computer networks; cyber-physical systems; critical infrastructures; data-driven AI systems; energy systems; hardware and software systems; industrial systems; and mobility networks. The QEST+FORMATS joint conference also aims to attract researchers interested in real-time issues in hardware design, performance analysis, real-time software, scheduling, semantics and verification of timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems. Topics and scientific areas of interest include: - Models and metrics for the correctness, performance, reliability, safety, and security of systems (stochastic, probabilistic, and non-deterministic models including Markov chains, Markov decision processes, automata, Petri nets, process algebra, max-plus algebra, and their variations); - Languages and methods for the specification of quantitative properties of systems; - Techniques, algorithms, and data structures for analysis, evaluation, and verification of the models mentioned above, e.g., for model checking, testing, constraint solving, scheduling, optimization, and worst-case execution time analysis; - Quantitative and probabilistic aspects of programming; - Data-driven and machine-learning techniques for the analysis, prediction, and verification of quantitative properties of systems; - Case studies that highlight the role of quantitative specification, modelling, and evaluation in the design and analysis of systems, with emphasis on emerging problems and technologies; - Novel software tools to support the practical application of research results in all of the above areas; The joint QEST+FORMATS conference is open to theoretical, experimental, and applicative research and will set up an artifact evaluation process. Papers may advance the state of the art on empirical approaches, simulation methods, analysis techniques, and applications to industrially relevant case studies. The joint conference will have two tracks associated with QEST and FORMATS. The authors are required to select one of these tracks when submitting their papers. This is only used to facilitate the review process. This year, QEST+FORMATS will incorporate a special session on: - Data-driven verification and synthesis of cyber-physical systems. We encourage the submission of papers on all data-driven approaches related to the formal analysis, verification, and synthesis of cyber-physical systems, including learning techniques for safety-critical systems and safe learning of such systems. SUBMISSIONS QEST+FORMATS 2024 considers three types of papers (authors will be able to specify the type of contribution upon submission): - Research papers: Theoretical, methodological, and application-based contributions that advance the understanding on a topic or issue, describe the development of new analysis processes and techniques, or apply quantitative methods to relevant case studies. - Tool papers: New tools and the formalisms they support. focusing on the software architecture and practical implementation and use. Tool papers must be accompanied by an artifact in the Artifact Evaluation. - Work-in-progress papers: We offer an opportunity to present preliminary results and receive feedback from the community. Work-in-progress contributions are not required to be fully worked-out approaches, for example regarding validation or technical depth; however the presented ideas should be mature enough to appreciate soundness and how they advance our knowledge. Research and tool papers can be regular or short: - Regular papers must not exceed 14 pages, excluding references. - Short papers should be limited to 7 pages, also excluding references. All papers can have an appendix containing supporting material. Note that reviewers are not required to read the appendix to fully assess the merits of the paper. Work-in-progress papers must not exceed 4 pages including references. All papers must be submitted in Springer’s LNCS format. All submitted papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers should be submitted electronically using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qestformats2024 Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in their papers. Authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines and use Springer’s LaTeX templates for the preparation of their papers. Submitted papers not complying with the above guidelines may be rejected without undergoing review. The top two best papers of the conference will be selected for the QEST Award and the FORMATS Oded Maler Award. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be presented and discussed at the conference by one of the authors. The QEST+FORMATS 2024 proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series and indexed by ISI Web of Science, Scopus, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar. All submitted papers will be evaluated by at least three reviewers on the basis of their originality, technical quality, scientific or practical contribution to the state of the art, methodology, clarity, and adequacy of references. ARTIFACT EVALUATION Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an atmosphere of trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and reward reproducibility, QEST+FORMATS 2024 includes a dedicated Artifact Evaluation (AE). Submission of an artifact is mandatory for tool papers (both regular and short), and optional but encouraged for research papers where it can support the results presented in the paper. Artifacts will be reviewed concurrently with the paper review process, and accepted papers with a successfully evaluated artifact will receive a badge to be shown on the published paper's title page. Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will be available on the conference website. Exceptions to the submission guidelines may be granted by the PC chairs in cases where the tool cannot in any reasonable way be run by the AE committee. SPECIAL ISSUES A selection of the best papers (excluding work-in-progress papers) will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to special issues in the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) and the Performance Evaluation (PEVA) journals. COMMITTEES Program Chairs Jane Hillston, Edinburgh University, UK Sadegh Soudjani, Max Planck Institute, Germany Track Chairs Morteza Lahijanian, UC Boulder, USA (QEST) Masaki Waga, Kyoto University, Japan (FORMATS) Publicity Chairs Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California, USA Patrick Totzke, University of Liverpool, UK Jie An, National Institute of Informatics (NII) in Tokyo, Japan Artifact Evaluation Chairs Tobias Meggendorfer, Lancaster University Leipzig, Germany Andrea Vandin, Sant'Anna School for Advanced Studies, Italy 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).

1 year, 5 months

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Invitation Guest Speaker @ ACFTI Cybersecurity stream

by Andrew Zayine

On behalf of the Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators (ACFTI), I am pleased to invite you to the new Cybersecurity stream lecture/seminar series. The presentation is a maximum of 1 hour in length, with an audience of about 60+, made up of undergraduate and postgraduate students plus cybersecurity students from developing countries. Our goal is to shine a spotlight on the broad array of new advances in cybersecurity science and operations currently adopted in the industry. This session will be conducted online. It will be fantastic to have any hands-on topics related to cyber forensics. Your discussion on this topic will be a great addition to our event. Expressions of interest to present from anyone doing research or applying cybersecurity techniques to practical or theoretical applications related to the interactions between cyber forensics and threat investigations can be sent as a summary of your work (c.200 words) to acfti (at) acfti (dot) org by February 15, 2024 Thank you in advance for your consideration, and we are very much looking forward to hearing from you. To get more news about our events, please join our low-traffic announcement group @ https://groups.google.com/g/acfti ________________________________________________________ Association of Cyber Forensics and Threat Investigators https://www.acfti.org Twitter: @acfti

1 year, 6 months

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Call for Participation, ASPLOS'24

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message from Krishna Nandivada V <nvk(a)iitm.ac.in> ----- From: Krishna Nandivada V <nvk(a)iitm.ac.in> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 12:24:10 +0000 Subject: Call for Participation, ASPLOS'24 Dear colleagues, ASPLOS, the ACM International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems, is the premier academic forum for multidisciplinary computer systems research spanning hardware, software, and their interaction. It focuses on computer architecture, programming languages, operating systems, and associated areas such as networking and storage. ASPLOS'24 is being held in San Diego, in beautiful Southern California April 27^th-May 1^st 2024. Early registration is now open until March 22: you can find the links to register and reserve your hotel room on the conference website:https://www.asplos-conference.org/asplos2024/attend/ Because ASPLOS moved to a three-deadline model, the program will not be finalized with papers under review from the third deadline. We will be filling in program details as this review process is completed. Please check the conference website for details: https://www.asplos-conference.org /asplos2024/ On behalf of the organizing committee, we look forward to seeing in San Diego! Rajiv Gupta and Nael Abu-Ghazaleh General Chairs, ASPLOS'24 ----- End forwarded message -----

1 year, 6 months

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ACM India PhD Clinic mentoring at ISEC 2024

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message from IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 07:43:19 +0000 Dear esteemed mentor, If you have already registered for ISEC 2024 or are planning to do so soon and plan to be physically present at the conference, we extend a warm invitation for you to connect with the attending PhD students during the event. Throughout these three days, we will be hosting a PhD clinic at IIIT-B, offering a valuable opportunity for you to mentor three to four students. To be considered as a mentor, we kindly request those with a Ph.D. and a minimum of three years of experience to express their interest. If this aligns with your interests, we invite you to complete the mentorship form using the following link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1oPm7GSW82_YbcuXVEzUwGKJef3IJaD4TDguCFvAv8Q… For additional details about the ACM PhD Clinic, please refer to the information available here: https://india.acm.org/research/phd-clinic. This collaborative initiative is organized at IIIT-B as part of ISEC 2024. Thank you for considering this invitation. Best Regards, PhD Clinic Team, ISEC 2024 Regards, Nandakishore S Menon ----- End forwarded message -----

1 year, 6 months

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SAT 2024: Second Call for Papers

by Supratik Chakraborty

(Apologies for cross-postings, if any) _*SAT 2024: Second Call for Papers*_ 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. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Theoretical advances (including algorithms, proof complexity, parameterized complexity, and other complexity issues) * Practical search algorithms * Knowledge compilation * Implementation-level details of SAT and SMT solving tools and SAT/SMT-based systems * Problem encodings and reformulations * Applications (including novel application domains and improvements to existing applications) * Case studies and reports on insightful findings based on rigorous experimentation Out of Scope Papers claiming to resolve a major long-standing open theoretical question in Mathematics or Computer Science (such as those for which a Millennium Prize is offered), are outside the scope of the conference because there is insufficient time in the schedule to referee such papers; instead, such papers should be submitted to an appropriate technical journal. Paper Categories Submissions to SAT 2024 are invited in the following three categories: * Long papers (9 to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices) * Short papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices) * Tool papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices) Long and short papers should contain original research, with sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and implementation available with the submission. Submissions on applications and case studies are encouraged. Such papers should describe details, weaknesses and strengths of the proposed approaches in sufficient depth, but they are not expected to introduce novel solving methods. Long and short papers will be evaluated with the same quality standards, and are expected to contain a similar contribution per page ratio. The authors should choose between a long or a short paper depending on the space they need to fully describe their contribution.The classification between long and short papers impacts the duration of the presentation of the work during the conference. It is the responsibility of the authors to make sure that their paper is self-contained in the chosen limit of pages. There will be no re-classification of submissions by the PC. Tool papers are expected to report on the design and implementation of a tool, its novel features, strengths, limitations and potential applications. A “tool” is interpreted in a broad sense, including descriptions of solvers, pre-processors etc., as well as systems that exploit SAT and related solvers or their extensions for use in a relevant problem domain. A demonstration is expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented previously are expected to contain significant and clear enhancements to the tool. Submission Submissions should not be under review elsewhere nor be submitted elsewhere while under review for SAT 2024, and should not consist of previously published material. Submissions not consistent with these guidelines may be returned without review. Papers must be formatted in the LIPIcs LaTeX style available at https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sat2024 The reviewing process for SAT 2024 is single-blind. Authors may submit a supplement containing detailed proofs, examples, software, detailed experimental data, or other material related to the submission, to be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. The supplement should not be used as overflow space for the main paper, which should be self-contained for review purposes. Supplements will be treated with the same degree of confidentiality as the paper itself. The supplement must consist of a single file in one of the following formats: zipped tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz), gzipped file (.gz), or zip archive (.zip). One author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference and present it there. Important dates Abstract submission: March 8, 2024 AoE Full paper submission: March 15, 2024 AoE Author response: May 9-13, 2024 AoE Notification of decisions: May 22, 2024 AoE Camera-ready version submission: July 1, 2024 AoE Workshops & Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18-20, 2024 SAT conference: August 21-24, 2024 Best Paper Awards Long and short papers may be considered for a Best Paper Award. If the main author is a student, both in terms of work and writing, the paper may be considered for a Best Student Paper Award. Proceedings All accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a CC-BY license. For more information, please visit http://satisfiability.org/SAT24

1 year, 6 months

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Register for ISEC 2024

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message from IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2024 10:49:48 +0000 Dear All, We hope this message finds you well. This is a friendly reminder to register for the ISEC 2024 Conference. Don't miss the opportunity to indulge in insightful discussions, engaging workshops, and tutorials on various software engineering topics. Registration Link: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/isec-2024/registration For more details, kindly refer to the website<https://conf.researchr.org/home/isec-2024>. Exciting News for Students: We are delighted to announce travel support for students participating from outstation technical institutions in India. Travel Grant for All Students: Each grant covers up to Rs. 3,000 in travel expenses. Additional Support for Presenting Students: Students presenting in any track will receive an extra Rs. 5,000 in travel support. Eligibility Criteria for Travel Grant: Full-time students in a College/Institute/University in India. The institution must be outside Bangalore. Applicants must be registered for ISEC 2024 before applying for the grant. Please note that the travel grant recipients may be requested to contribute up to 7 hours of volunteering during the conference. Secure your spot now for ISEC 2024 by registering at this link<https://conf.researchr.org/attending/isec-2024/registration>. For additional information, please visit the conference website: https://conf.researchr.org/home/isec-2024 Best regards, Nandakishore Menon K Yashovardhan Reddy ISEC 2024 Publicity Chairs ----- End forwarded message -----

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CFP IEEE Edge 2024, Shenzhen, China.

by Nitin Auluck

IEEE EDGE 2024 - CALL FOR PAPERS https://conferences.computer.org/edge/2024/ Edge computing, as the convergence of computing and communications executed close to data collection and places of storage and application, provides a paradigm that offers several research and application opportunities across a wide range of domains. At the same time, it raises many fundamental and unprecedented research and development problems and challenges. The 2024 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2024) aims to continue to be recognized a prime international forum for both researchers and industry practitioners to exchange the latest fundamental advances in state of the art and practice of edge computing, identify emerging research topics, and define the future of edge computing. IEEE EDGE is affiliated with IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES). IEEE EDGE 2024 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2024 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2024 invites original papers addressing all aspects related to edge computing theories, technologies and applications. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: · Edge Computing Architectures · Edge Computing and Communications Theories · Edge Computing and Network Functions Virtualization · Edge Computing in Multi-cloud environments · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · Benchmarks and Workloads for Performance of Edge Systems · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Generative AI Continuum - from Edge to Cloud · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) * December 1, 2023: EasyChair open for DRAFT submissions * March 17, 2024: EasyChair closes for NEW submissions * March 24, 2024: EasyChair closes for revisions and uploads * May 6, 2024: Acceptance notification * July 7-13, 2024: SERVICES Congress in Shenzhen, China ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2024 GENERAL CHAIRS Shuiguang Deng, Zhejiang University Nirmit Desai, IBM Research Gopal Pingali, Accenture IEEE EDGE 2024 PROGRAM CHAIRS Javid Taheri, Karlstad University Shiqiang Wang, IBM Research K. V. Subramaniam, AMD IEEE EDGE 2024 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Honghao Gao, Shanghai University, China Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada (TBC) -- Dr. Nitin Auluck / डॉ. नितिन औलक | Associate Professor / सह - प्राध्यापक Room #114, S. Ramanujan Block / कमरा #११४, एस. रामानुजम ब्लॉक Department of Computer Science & Engineering / कंप्यूटर विज्ञान और अभियांत्रिकी विभाग Indian Institute of Technology Ropar / भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान रोपड़ | Rupnagar, Punjab, India, 140001 / रूपनगर, पंजाब, भारत, १४०००१ nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in | nauluck(a)ieee.org | http://www.iitrpr.ac.in/cse/nitin -- **CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The contents of this email message and any attachments are intended solely for the addressee(s) and may contain confidential and/or privileged information and may be legally protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or their agent, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply email and then delete this message and any attachments. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any use, dissemination, copying, or storage of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited.* *

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World Logic Day Celebrations 2024 (Online)

by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com

Dear all, You might already be aware of the World Logic Day Celebrations (WLDC) organized by the Association for Logic in India. The first part of the celebrations took place at the Madras School of Economics on Jan 20 (last Saturday) in hybrid mode. The second part of the celebrations will be held online on Jan 27 (coming Saturday). Here is the website for the events: https://sites.google.com/view/wldc2024/. The upcoming part of WLDC on Jan 27 will start from 9.45am. The keynote speakers are: - Sourav Chakraborty (ISI Kolkata) - Sujata Ghosh (ISI Chennai) The talks will take place over Zoom and will also be livestreamed on Youtube. The Zoom and Youtube links are provided on the website (they might get updated so please check them again on the day of the event). Everyone is cordially invited to attend. Best regards, -Abhisekh. (On behalf of the WLDC organizers) Tephilla wrote: > (Apologies for cross-postings, if any) > > Call for Abstracts > > Association for Logic in India (ALI), is celebrating World Logic Day on > January 20th 2024 in **hybrid** mode. In-person participation is strongly > encouraged for this event. > > We invite abstracts of contributed talks from young researchers (including > Ph.D. students and Postdocs) in the following areas: > > a) Logic in Computer Science > b) Mathematical Logic > c) Philosophical Logic (including Linguistic and Cognitive Science) > d) Indian Logic > > Authors are invited to submit short abstracts up to 200 words excluding > references as a pdf file. The abstracts should be headed by the title of > the corresponding area (a – d), the title of the paper, and 3 to 5 keywords. > > Important Deadlines: > > Deadline for submission of contributed talks: 05/01/2024 AoE > Notification of Acceptance: 07/01/2024 AoE > > Send the abstract to worldlogicdaycelebrationbyali(a)gmail.com > > Keynote speakers: > > - Rohit Parikh (City University of New York) > - TBA > > > Venue: Madras School of Economics, Chennai > More information on in-person/virtual participation will be shared on the > website to registered participants shortly. > > **Registration URL available on the website** > WLDC24 URL: https://sites.google.com/view/wldc2024/ > > Programme Committee: > Nikhil Balaji (IIT Delhi) > Sankha S. Basu (IIIT Delhi) > Purbita Jana (MSE Chennai) > Amal Dev Manuel (IIT Goa) > Abhishek Sankaran (TCS Research) > > > Organising Committee: > Sankha Basu (IIIT Delhi) > Avijeet Ghosh (ISI Kolkata) > Sujata Ghosh (ISI Chennai) > Purbita Jana (MSE Chennai) > Rakesh Nigam (MSE Chennai) > Tephilla Prince (IIT Dharwad) > Smiha Samanta (ISI Kolkata) > > For more information, please visit WLDC24: > https://sites.google.com/view/wldc2024/ > > Best regards, > Tephilla Prince

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Thejaswini Raghavan on Jan. 23 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Thejaswini Raghavan, a postdoctoral researcher at IST Austria. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MjQxam5sb2…> ). 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: Solving Rabin games using Colourful Universal Trees Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: To solve Church's synthesis problem for omega-regular specifications, represented by non-deterministic Buechi automata, there are two polynomial-time equivalent approaches: either reduce it to the emptiness problem for Rabin tree automata or solve a Rabin game. In this talk, we will see how one can solve Rabin games faster with an improvement by a super quadratic dependence on the number of Rabin pairs from the currently best known run time obtained by converting a Rabin game into a parity game, while simultaneously improving its exponential space requirement. Our main technical ingredient is a characterisation of progress measures for Rabin games using colourful trees and a combinatorial construction of succinctly-represented, universal colourful trees. Colourful universal trees are generalisations of universal trees used by Jurdzinski and Lazic (2017) to solve parity games, as well as of Rabin progress measures of Klarlund and Kozen (1991). Further, we will also discuss lower bounds for solving Rabin games that show that our algorithm is tight subject to the exponential time hypothesis, reproving a result of Calude et al. (2022). The first part of the talk is based on joint work with Rupak Majumdar and Irmak Saglam, accepted at TACAS 2024 and the last part about the lower bounds is based on joint work with Antonio Casares, Marcin Pilipczuk, Michal Pilipczuk, Ueverton S. Souza, published at SOSA 2024. Bio: Thejaswini Raghavan is a postdoctoral researcher at IST Austria in the group headed by Thomas A. Henzinger. She did her Ph.D. under the supervision of Marcin Jurdzinski at the University of Warwick. Prior to that, she did her B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics and Computer Science and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). Her research interests broadly lie in Logic, Automata, Games, and Verification.

1 year, 6 months

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Thejaswini Raghavan on Jan. 23 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Thejaswini Raghavan, a postdoctoral researcher at IST Austria. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, Jan. 23, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MjQxam5sb2…> ). 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: Solving Rabin games using Colourful Universal Trees Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: To solve Church's synthesis problem for omega-regular specifications, represented by non-deterministic Buechi automata, there are two polynomial-time equivalent approaches: either reduce it to the emptiness problem for Rabin tree automata or solve a Rabin game. In this talk, we will see how one can solve Rabin games faster with an improvement by a super quadratic dependence on the number of Rabin pairs from the currently best known run time obtained by converting a Rabin game into a parity game, while simultaneously improving its exponential space requirement. Our main technical ingredient is a characterisation of progress measures for Rabin games using colourful trees and a combinatorial construction of succinctly-represented, universal colourful trees. Colourful universal trees are generalisations of universal trees used by Jurdzinski and Lazic (2017) to solve parity games, as well as of Rabin progress measures of Klarlund and Kozen (1991). Further, we will also discuss lower bounds for solving Rabin games that show that our algorithm is tight subject to the exponential time hypothesis, reproving a result of Calude et al. (2022). The first part of the talk is based on joint work with Rupak Majumdar and Irmak Saglam, accepted at TACAS 2024 and the last part about the lower bounds is based on joint work with Antonio Casares, Marcin Pilipczuk, Michal Pilipczuk, Ueverton S. Souza, published at SOSA 2024. Bio: Thejaswini Raghavan is a postdoctoral researcher at IST Austria in the group headed by Thomas A. Henzinger. She did her Ph.D. under the supervision of Marcin Jurdzinski at the University of Warwick. Prior to that, she did her B.Sc. (Hons.) in Mathematics and Computer Science and M.Sc. in Computer Science from Chennai Mathematical Institute (CMI). Her research interests broadly lie in Logic, Automata, Games, and Verification.

1 year, 6 months

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ISEC 2024: Registration and Student Travel Support

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message from IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- Dear All, Registration is now open for the ISEC 2024 Conference at IIIT Bangalore from 22 February- 24 February. The conference will cover various software engineering topics through discussions, workshops, and tutorials. Registration Link: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/isec-2024/registration Important Registration Information: The registration fee covers access to the entire conference. Registration Deadline: 20th Jan 2024 Authors, presenters, and organizers ensure your registration at the non-student rate by the deadline. Provide the complete title of your work during registration. Travel Support for Students: We are offering travel grants to students for participation from outstation technical institutions in India. Each grant covers up to Rs. 3,000 in travel expenses. Eligibility Criteria: *? ?Full-time students in a College/Institute/University in India. The institution must be outside Bangalore. *? ?Applicants must be registered for ISEC 2024 before applying for the grant. Travel grant recipients may be requested to contribute less than 7 hours for volunteering during the conference. Register now for ISEC 2024 and secure your spot. For more information please check out the website at https://conf.researchr.org/home/isec-2024 Best regards, Nandakishore Menon K Yashovardhan Reddy ISEC 2024 Publicity Chairs ________________________________ ----- End forwarded message -----

1 year, 7 months

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Call for Abstracts- World Logic Day Celebration 2024 (Hybrid)

by Tephilla

(Apologies for cross-postings, if any) Call for Abstracts Association for Logic in India (ALI), is celebrating World Logic Day on January 20th 2024 in **hybrid** mode. In-person participation is strongly encouraged for this event. We invite abstracts of contributed talks from young researchers (including Ph.D. students and Postdocs) in the following areas: a) Logic in Computer Science b) Mathematical Logic c) Philosophical Logic (including Linguistic and Cognitive Science) d) Indian Logic Authors are invited to submit short abstracts up to 200 words excluding references as a pdf file. The abstracts should be headed by the title of the corresponding area (a – d), the title of the paper, and 3 to 5 keywords. Important Deadlines: Deadline for submission of contributed talks: 05/01/2024 AoE Notification of Acceptance: 07/01/2024 AoE Send the abstract to worldlogicdaycelebrationbyali(a)gmail.com Keynote speakers: - Rohit Parikh (City University of New York) - TBA Venue: Madras School of Economics, Chennai More information on in-person/virtual participation will be shared on the website to registered participants shortly. **Registration URL available on the website** WLDC24 URL: https://sites.google.com/view/wldc2024/ Programme Committee: Nikhil Balaji (IIT Delhi) Sankha S. Basu (IIIT Delhi) Purbita Jana (MSE Chennai) Amal Dev Manuel (IIT Goa) Abhishek Sankaran (TCS Research) Organising Committee: Sankha Basu (IIIT Delhi) Avijeet Ghosh (ISI Kolkata) Sujata Ghosh (ISI Chennai) Purbita Jana (MSE Chennai) Rakesh Nigam (MSE Chennai) Tephilla Prince (IIT Dharwad) Smiha Samanta (ISI Kolkata) For more information, please visit WLDC24: https://sites.google.com/view/wldc2024/ Best regards, Tephilla Prince

1 year, 7 months

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Internship opportunity for formal methods PhD students at GE Aerospace India

by Supratik Chakraborty

I am posting this on behalf of Samhitha Palanganda Poonacha (GE Aerospace) <samhitha.poonacha(a)ge.com>. Please contact Samhitha directly for any queries. ===================== The current V&V process we have for our aircraft engine controls software is fairly involved and manual. The European regulating agencies have mandated a change GE’s V&V process which means much more manual effort for us going forward each time we want to certify our engine controls software. The Research team at Bangalore is currently involved in one such V&V exercise and have identified many opportunities where we can find the right balance between innovation and deploying formal methods that can significantly improve the productivity for the team. We are looking for an intern with a formal methods background who is curious to see what happens to automation in a very complex set up, an aircraft engine, and some of the real-world challenges we need to deal with when designing solutions. To give you an idea: Number of requirements in thousands and written up by a wide variety of people where for many, English is not the primary language, this alone can make things very challenging. The work would involve both supporting some of the V&V activities as well as designing proof-of-concepts for proposed process refinements. Exposure to engineering challenges while being part of a multi-disciplinary unit will be some things the intern can stand to gain. The team itself has folks from a variety of technical backgrounds and additionally solving an array of AI/NLP applications for GE Aerosapce. Ideally we would like someone who can work with us for ~6 months. Job Posting: https://ge.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/GE_ExternalSite/job/Bengaluru/Research-Int… We can also make the option of a post-doc possible in case someone is interested to see what applied research at GE Aerospace looks like.

1 year, 7 months

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FAACS 2024 - Call for Research Papers

by Nadeem Abbas

Dear all, We hope you will be doing great. We are writing this to you for the 8th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems. Please consider the below call, submit your work and join us for the workshop. Also please help us to circulate the call by sharing with your network. Call for Papers: FAACS 2024 The 8th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems (FAACS 2024), co-located with the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2024), will be held in IIIT Hyderabad, India June 4-8, 2024. Web: https://faacs-workshop.github.io/2024/ Twitter/X handle: @faacs_ws Important Dates: – Submission Deadline: February 18, 2024 – Notification of Papers: March 17, 2024 – Camera Ready: March 31, 2024 – Workshop Date: June 4 – 5, 2024 *** Motivation and Scope *** Cutting-edge technologies, infrastructures, and computational paradigms such as digital twin, cloud, fog, edge computing, IoT, digitalization, Industry 5.0, and cyber-physical systems are changing how data and services are delivered and used. Such systems have a significant and elaborate societal impact, making it paramount to guarantee essential qualities of the delivered product, such as dependability, reliability, safety, and availability. As new paradigms become pervasive in our everyday lives, new challenges also emerge in dealing with uncertainty, untrustworthiness, and information loss, affecting the software life cycle in different phases. Ensuring critical qualities requires a joint effort in devising advanced software architecture designs by the software architecture community and formal modeling and verification approaches by the formal methods community. The main goal of the workshop is to foster integration between formal methods and software architecture promoting new connections and synergies between the two communities to address the challenges of the upcoming generation of computing systems. Aligned with the theme of the ICSA 2024, we welcome contributions on the potential and risks of generative AI in developing advanced software architectures and ensuring qualities like dependability, reliability, safety, and availability through formal modeling and verification. *** Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to) the following: *** - requirements formalization and formal specification, with or without the use of generative AI; - formal/semi-formal architecture design, validation and verification, quality analysis and evaluation; - formal/semi-formal approaches to digitalization, development of digital society and Digital Twins; - methodologies and approaches focusing on addressing challenges of modern computing systems that are currently addressed ad-hoc; - architecture description languages and metamodels; - architectural patterns, styles and tactics, viewpoints and views; - architecture transformation and refinement, architecture based synthesis; - model-driven engineering; - approaches and tools for verification and validation; - performance analysis based on formal approaches; - compliance assurance using formal methods; - application of methodologies, theories, approaches and techniques specific to the aforementioned areas to AI-based, autonomous, robotic, cyber-physical, and self-adaptive systems; - use of generative AI for aforementioned areas - reports on practical experience in the application of formal methods to industrial case studies. *** Types of Papers *** FAACS 2024 solicits: Full papers (Max 8 pages including references): original research contributions, case studies, or report on work or experiences in industry; Short papers (Max 4 pages including references): work-in-progress, new and emerging ideas, techniques and/or tools or extensions not fully validated yet, or outstanding challenges along with possible approaches for resolving them. *** Best Paper Award *** Based on the reviews and PC discussion, up to two papers will be selected for the Best Paper Award. *** Submission *** All submissions will follow the IEEE Computer Science proceedings format. Submitted papers must be written in English and conform to the the IEEE Guidelines including the guidelines for AI-Generated text. Submissions must be done before the deadline in PDF format via via the EasyChair submission system. *** Panel Discussion *** We are planning to have an expert panel session related to above specified topics of interest. Please contact the program co-chairs if you are interested in joining the expert panel or would like to nominate someone who you would like to be part of the expert panel. Program Co-chairs Nadeem Abbas, Linnaeus University, Sweden, (nadeem.abbas(a)lnu.se<mailto:nadeem.abbas@lnu.se>) Livia Lestingi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, (livia.lestingi(a)polimi.it<mailto:livia.lestingi@polimi.it>) Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy, (patrizia.scandurra(a)unibg.it<mailto:patrizia.scandurra@unibg.it>) Steering Committee – Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics, Japan – Matteo Camilli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy – Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy – Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy – Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy Regards Nadeem __________________________________________ Nadeem Abbas, PhD Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor Linnaeus University Department of Computer Science and Media Technology 351 95 Växjö Sweden +46-470-767411 (office) +46-702-017249 (Mobile) +46-470-84004 (Fax) nadeem.abbas(a)lnu.se<mailto:nadeem.abbas@lnu.se> https://lnu.se/en/staff/nadeem.abbas/ __________ Call for Submissions: I am Program Chair for the 8th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems<https://faacs-workshop.github.io/2024/>, which will be colocated with ICSA 2024<https://conf.researchr.org/home/icsa-2024> at IIIT Hyderabad India. The call for submission of papers will be released soon. It will be great if you yourself can make a submission and also request your network to submit. ICSA is a premier conference on software architecture and accepted papers are published in ICSA Companion proceedings, and indexed in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.

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Call for papers: SAT 2024

by Supratik Chakraborty

(Apologies for cross-postings, if any) 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. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Theoretical advances (including algorithms, proof complexity, parameterized complexity, and other complexity issues) * Practical search algorithms * Knowledge compilation * Implementation-level details of SAT and SMT solving tools and SAT/SMT-based systems * Problem encodings and reformulations * Applications (including novel application domains and improvements to existing applications) * Case studies and reports on insightful findings based on rigorous experimentation Out of Scope Papers claiming to resolve a major long-standing open theoretical question in Mathematics or Computer Science (such as those for which a Millennium Prize is offered), are outside the scope of the conference because there is insufficient time in the schedule to referee such papers; instead, such papers should be submitted to an appropriate technical journal. Paper Categories Submissions to SAT 2024 are invited in the following three categories: * Long papers (9 to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices) * Short papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices) * Tool papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices) Long and short papers should contain original research, with sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged to make their data and implementation available with the submission. Submissions on applications and case studies are encouraged. Such papers should describe details, weaknesses and strengths of the proposed approaches in sufficient depth, but they are not expected to introduce novel solving methods. Long and short papers will be evaluated with the same quality standards, and are expected to contain a similar contribution per page ratio. The authors should choose between a long or a short paper depending on the space they need to fully describe their contribution.The classification between long and short papers impacts the duration of the presentation of the work during the conference. It is the responsibility of the authors to make sure that their paper is self-contained in the chosen limit of pages. There will be no re-classification of submissions by the PC. Tool papers are expected to report on the design and implementation of a tool, its novel features, strengths, limitations and potential applications. A “tool” is interpreted in a broad sense, including descriptions of solvers, preprocessors etc., as well as systems that exploit SAT and related solvers or their extensions for use in a relevant problem domain. A demonstration is expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented previously are expected to contain significant and clear enhancements to the tool. Submission Submissions should not be under review elsewhere nor be submitted elsewhere while under review for SAT 2024, and should not consist of previously published material. Submissions not consistent with these guidelines may be returned without review. Papers must be formatted in the LIPIcs LaTeX style available at https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sat2024 The reviewing process for SAT 2024 is single-blind. Authors may submit a supplement containing detailed proofs, examples, software, detailed experimental data, or other material related to the submission, to be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. The supplement should not be used as overflow space for the main paper, which should be self-contained for review purposes. Supplements will be treated with the same degree of confidentiality as the paper itself. The supplement must consist of a single file in one of the following formats: zipped tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz), gzipped file (.gz), or zip archive (.zip). One author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the conference and present it there. Important dates Abstract submission: March 8, 2024 AoE Full paper submission: March 15, 2024 AoE Author response: May 9-13, 2024 AoE Notification of decisions: May 22, 2024 AoE Camera-ready version submission: July 1, 2024 AoE Workshops & Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18-20, 2024 SAT conference: August 21-24, 2024 Best Paper Awards Long and short papers may be considered for a Best Paper Award. If the main author is a student, both in terms of work and writing, the paper may be considered for a Best Student Paper Award. Proceedings All accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) as a free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published under a CC-BY license. For more information, please visit http://satisfiability.org/SAT24

1 year, 8 months

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Tutorial on Civl verifier for concurrent programs @ POPL 2024, January 14, 2024

by Shaz Qadeer

Constantin Enea and Shaz Qadeer will present a tutorial on the Civl verifier <https://popl24.sigplan.org/details/POPL-2024-tutorialfest/1/Scaling-Verific…> at POPL 2024 on Sunday January 14, 2024. If you are interested in automated and scalable reasoning about concurrent systems, you will find Civl of interest! A brief description of the tutorial contents is included below. ============================== Objectives: The tutorial aims to introduce the functionality of the Civl verifier, discuss its applicability and limitations, and a comparison with the state of the art. We will start with a description of practically important programming models that exhibit concurrency and require attention from verification researchers. Next, we will present an overview of trends in methods and tools for static verification of concurrent systems. Finally, we will present the different components and proof tactics implemented in Civl using illustrative examples and case studies. Topics to be covered: The tutorial will be structured in several sections that address the objectives mentioned above. 1. Classes of concurrent systems whose construction deserve reasoning support: - concurrent tasks operating on shared-memory (locks, non-blocking algorithms, weak memory, GPU programs) - processes communicating via channels, RPCs (distributed systems) - hardware controllers (memory controllers, pipelined processors), mixed hardware-software controllers (embedded systems) 2. Overview of trends in static concurrency reasoning: - Powering up program logics: extensions of Floyd-Hoare such as Owicki-Gries, Rely-Guarantee, Concurrent Separation Logic, etc. - The approach in Civl: amplifying simple program logics via orthogonal methods such as commutativity, linear types, refinement - Proof discovery: heuristic automation of proofs atop a particular proof system (much like the automation of type inference atop type checking) 3. Programming model of Civl: structured programs with possibly parallel and asynchronous procedure calls 4. Verification in Civl: - Yield invariants: noninterference reasoning that is as precise as Owicki-Gries and as compositional as rely-guarantee - Mover types: reduce interference using verification conditions for checking commutativity of atomic actions and a type system based on Lipton’s reduction - Ownership: disjoint distribution of resources ensured via linear types and verification conditions 5. Layered refinement in Civl: - Lifting refinement over transition systems to refinement over structured programs - A refinement chain of structured programs expressed as a single layered program - Each link in the refinement chain justified by a simulation proof supported by verification methods noted in #4 Presentation approach: The presentation will be driven by examples to illustrate challenges, explanation of core methods accessible to non-experts, and tool demonstration. Target audience: Researchers interested in concurrent systems, program analysis, and program verification Prerequisite knowledge: Logic, invariants, verification conditions, program analysis

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Madhusudan Parthasarathy on Nov. 28 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Madhusudan Parthasarathy, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzViZ3N0an…> ). 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 Logical Expressions Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We consider the problem of learning logical formulas/expressions that work as classifiers of structures. Logic learning has many applications ranging from program synthesis from input-output examples, learning specifications from code (contracts and inductive invariants), interpretable concept learning in AI, synthesizing lemmas to help prove theorems, finding axiomatizations, and, more generally, replacing certain creative tasks that currently require human help in many applications. We will first motivate logic learning using the applications above. We then will turn a theory lens to this problem by considering when the logic learning problem is *decidable*. We show a general technique using tree automata that realize learning algorithms for a variety of logics/languages ranging from fragments of FOL, regular expressions, temporal logics, grammars, to string transformation for Excel (as in Flashfill). We in fact will show a *meta-theorem* that can be used to show a logic is decidable simply by programming a particular kind of evaluator for its semantics. This theory suggests that many logics can be learned by using Version Space Algebras (VSAs) based on tree automata. If time permits, we will also consider the problem of learning logics themselves to aid few-shot learning. Bio: Madhusudan Parthasarathy is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked on several projects that turn the theory lens to problems in software verification including visibly pushdown languages, ICE-learning for learning inductive invariants, and natural proofs for proving programs that manipulate data structures. His current interests are in software verification, program synthesis, and trustworthy AI.

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8th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Second call for participation & short/poster presentation

by Kumar Madhukar

Dear all, The 8th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 15-17 December 2023, at IIIT Hyderabad, co-located with FSTTCS 2023. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/index.html) for registration and other details. Regular registration for the school closes on Nov. 28th. We are also inviting entries for short talks and poster presentations, in the broad area of SAT/SMT, through this Google form: https://forms.gle/6NdFgcJUaEedwaTQ8 Please submit your entries by Dec. 3rd (extended). Note that a print-out of the presentation slides may be used in place of posters during the poster presentation. 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 Ashutosh Gupta, IIT Bombay Saurabh Joshi, SupraOracles Kumar Madhukar, IIT Delhi Kuldeep Meel, NUS Subhajit Roy, IIT Kanpur Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi

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Call For Abstracts for 1st Workshop on GenAI based Software Engineering (https://genai4se.github.io/ISEC-Workshop/)

by Raveendra Medicherla

TCS Confidential Dear All, We are excited to announce 1st Workshop on GenAI based Software engineering. About: The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) governs the creation of software systems, encompassing different engineering phases such as requirement specification, design, coding, testing, and maintenance. Software development is an effort-intensive and time-consuming activity. Most complex, large-scale software systems of today derive their requirements from existing (legacy) software and partial (incomplete) descriptions. Thus, expertise from subject matter experts (SMEs) is essential at each phase, which brings in the important component of knowledge. The emergence of Generative AI techniques holds the potential to empower SMEs to construct purposeful engineering artifacts using natural language interactions. Objective: The proposed workshop (https://genai4se.github.io/ISEC-Workshop/) aims to provide a collaborative platform for researchers from the academia industry, and practitioners. Through this platform, we expect to delve into the convergence of Generative AI, Knowledge Engineering, MDE, Software Understanding, and Software Transformation. This workshop is a part of 17th ISEC 2024 conference (https://conf.researchr.org/home/isec-2024) that will be held at Bangalore, India, from 22nd Feb to 24th Feb 2024 . Call for Abstracts: We solicit submissions in the form of one-page (max 500 words) abstracts describing case studies, interesting experiments, best practices, and lessons learned while applying Generative AI to various SE areas, but not limited to the following topics: * Requirements Engineering * Software Design, Architecture * Software Development * AI Code Assistants * Software Verification, Testing and Debugging * Software Evolution and Maintenance * Legacy Modernization * Reverse Engineering from code, documents * Responsible AI * Human interaction with LLMs Submission link: https://forms.gle/4UqNFpSJb6hSbnxq6 Acceptance criteria: Abstracts will be selected based on reviews by members of the workshop organizing committee. The criteria will be the clarity of articulation of the problem being solved, bringing out the specific need for Generative AI to solve the problem and the novelty of the approach. Authors of accepted abstracts will receive further instructions for submitting camera-ready presentations. At least one of the authors MUST register for the ISEC conference to present their paper. Important Dates * Last date for submitting abstracts: 15 Dec 2023 * Notification of Selected Abstracts: 5 Jan 2024 * Camera Ready submission: 10 Jan 2024 Contact: GenAIForSe.ISECWorkshop(a)tcs.com<mailto:GenAIForSe.ISECWorkshop@tcs.com> GenAIForSe(a)gmail.com<mailto:GenAIForSe@gmail.com> Organizers: Raveendra Kumar M , TCS Research Ravindra Naik, TCS Research, Asha Rajbhoj, TCS Research Manasi Patwardhan, TCS Research Regards M. Raveendra Kumar, Principal Scientist, TCS Research, TCS, Bangalore. TCS Confidential =====-----=====-----===== 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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Student Poster Session, ISEC 2024

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message from IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 06:26:10 +0000 Greetings all, We hope this message finds you well. We wish to remind you about the approaching deadline for the Student Poster Session at the Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2024. Please be informed that the submission deadline is Friday, 8th December 2023. Student Posters Session is a forum for students to present their research work to the conference attendees. It is an excellent opportunity for students to get feedback, learn how to clearly communicate their research, and network with the leading experts in the field. For more details regarding eligibility and guidelines to submit your contribution, please visit the Student Posters Session track page: https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-student-posters-session Don't miss out on this opportunity to showcase your research at ISEC 2024. We look forward to your valuable contributions. Best Regards, ISEC 2024 Publicity Team Organising Team General Chair Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti (IIIT Bangalore) Organising Co-Chairs Raghavan Komondoor (IISc, Bangalore) Raveendra Kumar Medicherla (TCS Research) Program Co-Chairs (Research Track) Sudipto Ghosh (Colorado State University, USA) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research, India) Workshops and Tutorial Track Co-Chairs Manas Thakur (IIT Bombay, India) Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan (IIT Kanpur, India) Software Engineering in Practice Co-Chairs Manoj Dixit (MathWorks, India) Tukaram Muske (Synopsis, India) PhD Symposium Chair Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur, India) ----- End forwarded message -----

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Internships at SupraOracles

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message from Saurabh Joshi <s.joshi(a)supraoracles.com> ----- From: Saurabh Joshi <s.joshi(a)supraoracles.com> To: madhavan(a)cmi.ac.in Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:44:05 +0530 We would like to hire an intern (for up to 6 months) with FM background being essential (First Order Logic, Hoare Logic, Pre/Post conditions, Loop invariants) and a good command over any one of the imperative programming languages. Knowledge/experience with model checkers and/or SMT solvers would certainly be a plus. With the internship, we plan to explore the expressivity of the Move specification language, to enable Move Prover to prove properties about smart contracts written in the Move programming language. Possibly also explore internals of Move Prover and how Move is being modelled and whether any modifications/improvement would aid in formal verification of the smart contracts. Suitable interested candidates may apply here: https://supraoracles.com/careers/4967045004/ *--------------------------------------------------------------------------* *Saurabh Joshi* *Principal Researcher | SupraOracles* Current Timezone: New Delhi, India (GMT+5:30) Learn more and connect with SupraOracles here <https://linktr.ee/supraoracles>. ----- End forwarded message -----

1 year, 8 months

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Madhusudan Parthasarathy on Nov. 28 at 1900 hrs IST

by VSS IARCS

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Madhusudan Parthasarathy, a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, Nov. 28, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzViZ3N0an…> ). 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 Logical Expressions Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We consider the problem of learning logical formulas/expressions that work as classifiers of structures. Logic learning has many applications ranging from program synthesis from input-output examples, learning specifications from code (contracts and inductive invariants), interpretable concept learning in AI, synthesizing lemmas to help prove theorems, finding axiomatizations, and, more generally, replacing certain creative tasks that currently require human help in many applications. We will first motivate logic learning using the applications above. We then will turn a theory lens to this problem by considering when the logic learning problem is *decidable*. We show a general technique using tree automata that realize learning algorithms for a variety of logics/languages ranging from fragments of FOL, regular expressions, temporal logics, grammars, to string transformation for Excel (as in Flashfill). We in fact will show a *meta-theorem* that can be used to show a logic is decidable simply by programming a particular kind of evaluator for its semantics. This theory suggests that many logics can be learned by using Version Space Algebras (VSAs) based on tree automata. If time permits, we will also consider the problem of learning logics themselves to aid few-shot learning. Bio: Madhusudan Parthasarathy is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has worked on several projects that turn the theory lens to problems in software verification including visibly pushdown languages, ICE-learning for learning inductive invariants, and natural proofs for proving programs that manipulate data structures. His current interests are in software verification, program synthesis, and trustworthy AI.

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Funded PhD Positions at Boston University

by Ankush Das

Hi all, I am excited to announce that I will be joining Boston University as a tenure-track assistant professor, and I am looking for motivated PhD students starting in Fall 2024. My research interests are broadly in the area of programming languages, with applications in cryptography, distributed systems, and recently in probabilistic and machine learning models. More specifically, my research centers around building type systems for verification and quantitative analysis of concurrent programs with applications in aforementioned areas. You can find more details about my research on my webpage: https://ankushdas.github.io/ If you are interested in working with me, please reach out to me directly and/or apply to the PhD program at BU (details below). Beyond my research, the Principles of Programming and Verification group at Boston University (https://www.bu.edu/cs/research/popv/) has funded PhD positions for several exciting projects. Two examples below: Marco Gaboardi (https://cs-people.bu.edu/gaboardi/) works at the intersection of programming languages, formal verification, and differential privacy. Alley Stoughton (https://alleystoughton.us/) works mainly on using the EasyCrypt proof assistant to mechanize proofs of the security of cryptographic protocols. She leads the EasyUC project on mechanizing security proofs in the universally composable security framework ( https://github.com/easyuc/EasyUC). Details on how to apply: - Application deadline: December 15, 2023 - Our PhD applications web info: https://www.bu.edu/cs/phd-program/phd/ - Our Admissions FAQ page: https://www.bu.edu/cs/phd-program/phd/faqs-about-graduate-admissions-financ… - Visit day: March 25, 2024 Thanks, Ankush

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CFP : Theme Issue: Indic Mathematical Systems - Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (SCMJ)

by gopal＠annauniv.edu

Please find the Call For Papers on the theme "Indic Mathematical Systems" at: https://easychair.org/cfp/SCMJIMS24 As you would appreciate this is for one of the most reputed Journals Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (SCMJ). I am serving as the Guest Editor for this theme issue on "Indic Mathematical Systems". Sincerely, Gopal T V 0 9840121302 https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545 https://www.facebook.com/gopal.tadepalli ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. T V Gopal Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 (Res) 24454753 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CFP : Theme Issue: Indic Mathematical Systems - Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (SCMJ)

by gopal

Please find the Call For Papers on the theme "Indic Mathematical Systems" at: https://easychair.org/cfp/SCMJIMS24 As you would appreciate this is for one of the most reputed Journals Scientiae Mathematicae Japonicae (SCMJ). I am serving as the Guest Editor for this theme issue on "Indic Mathematical Systems". Sincerely, Gopal T V 0 9840121302 https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/profile/57545 https://www.facebook.com/gopal.tadepalli ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Dr. T V Gopal Professor Department of Computer Science and Engineering College of Engineering Anna University Chennai - 600 025, INDIA Ph : (Off) 22351723 Extn. 3340 (Res) 24454753 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CFP reminder for ISEC 2024

by Madhavan Mukund

----- Forwarded message ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2023 06:01:02 +0000 Dear Colleagues and Researchers, We hope this message finds you well. We would like to remind you of the upcoming deadlines for the Innovations in Software Engineering Conference (ISEC) 2024, which will be held at the International Institute of Information Technology Bangalore, India. ISEC 2024: https://conf.researchr.org/home/isec-2024 Please take note of the revised submission deadlines for the various tracks of the conference. **Important Deadlines:** 1. **Doctoral Symposium Track:** - Submission Deadline: **Wednesday, 16th November 2023** - Submission Acceptance Notification: **Friday, 7th December 2023** - Camera-ready Deadline: **Thursday, 14th December 2023** - Submission URL: [Doctoral Symposium Track](https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-doctoral-sympos… 2. **Software Engineering in Practice Track:** - SEIP Submission Deadline: **Wednesday, 22nd November 2023** - SEIP Submission Acceptance Notification: **Friday, 15th December 2023** - SEIP Presentation Submission Deadline: **Thursday, 25th January 2024** - Submission URL: [Software Engineering in Practice Track](https://conf.researchr.org/track/isec-2024/isec-2024-software-engine… We encourage all researchers and practitioners in the field of software engineering to submit their work and contribute to the success of ISEC 2024. This conference provides a unique platform for sharing innovative ideas, research findings, and practical experiences. If you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to contact us. We look forward to your valuable contributions to ISEC 2024. Warm regards, Nandakishore S Menon Publicity Co-Chair, ISEC 2024 Organising Team General Chair Sujit Kumar Chakrabarti (IIIT Bangalore) Organising Co-Chairs Raghavan Komondoor (IISc, Bangalore) Raveendra Kumar Medicherla (TCS Research) Program Co-Chairs (Research Track) Sudipto Ghosh (Colorado State University, USA) Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research, India) Workshops and Tutorial Track Co-Chairs Manas Thakur (IIT Bombay, India) Sruti Srinivasa Ragavan (IIT Kanpur, India) Software Engineering in Practice Co-Chairs Manoj Dixit (MathWorks, India) Tukaram Muske (Synopsis, India) PhD Symposium Chair Subhajit Roy (IIT Kanpur, India) ________________________________ ----- End forwarded message -----

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Post doctoral Position: Automated Program Repair

by Abhik Roychoudhury

Applications are invited for one post-doctoral position at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in the area of Automated Program Repair These positions will be part of a Singapore Ministry of Education (MoE) Tier 3, multi-year research program named "Automated Program Repair" which has been funded 2022-2027. This is a large research program involving several research projects in analysis, verification, test generation and applications related to program repair. To see work done on program repair at NUS, kindly see *Project webpage:* https://nus-apr.github.io/ /Interested applicants can email directly with their CV, including information about relevant research experience. Research background in program analysis, software testing, formal verification, symbolic execution and trustworthy AI are considered relevant. / -Abhik Roychoudhury School of Computing National University of Singapore https://abhikrc.com

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