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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024
by Qin Liu 07 Jun '24

07 Jun '24

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 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

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. 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[extended June 23] DPM 2024 - cfp - Data Privacy Manamgement, co-located with ESORICS 2024, Sep 19
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Data Privacy Management (DPM 2024) 19th International Workshop September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland (co-located with ESORICS 2024) website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/ ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Submission Deadline: -- June 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 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

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 31 May '24

31 May '24

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 31 May '24

31 May '24

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 30 May '24

30 May '24

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 27 May '24

27 May '24

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 26 May '24

26 May '24

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 22 May '24

22 May '24

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 22 May '24

22 May '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of UbiSec 2024 Preliminary CFPs with Deadline (July 15, 2024). ============================== UbiSec 2024 ============================== Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizer: Central South University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ====================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section TBD. ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section TBD. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024 Author Notification: August 15, 2024 Author Registration Due: September 15, 2024 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2024 Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield United, Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024
by Qin Liu 22 May '24

22 May '24

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 19 May '24

19 May '24

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 17 May '24

17 May '24

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 16 May '24

16 May '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of UbiSec 2024 Preliminary CFPs with Deadline (July 15, 2024). ============================== UbiSec 2024 ============================== Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizer: Central South University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ====================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section TBD. ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section TBD. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024 Author Notification: August 15, 2024 Author Registration Due: September 15, 2024 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2024 Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield United, Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024
by Qin Liu 16 May '24

16 May '24

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 12 May '24

12 May '24

=================================================== 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 08 May '24

08 May '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of UbiSec 2024 Preliminary CFPs with Deadline (July 15, 2024). ============================== UbiSec 2024 ============================== Call for Papers (CFPs) of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizer: Central South University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ====================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section TBD. ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section TBD. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: July 15, 2024 Author Notification: August 15, 2024 Author Registration Due: September 15, 2024 Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2024 Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield United, Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China/Aalto University, Finland Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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IEEE DASC 2024-Call for Papers-Deadline 15 Jun 2024
by Qin Liu 08 May '24

08 May '24

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 06 May '24

06 May '24

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 02 May '24

02 May '24

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 01 May '24

01 May '24

–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 30 Apr '24

30 Apr '24

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 29 Apr '24

29 Apr '24

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 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

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 24 Apr '24

24 Apr '24

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 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

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 20 Apr '24

20 Apr '24

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 18 Apr '24

18 Apr '24

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 10 Apr '24

10 Apr '24

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 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

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 03 Apr '24

03 Apr '24

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 01 Apr '24

01 Apr '24

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 27 Mar '24

27 Mar '24

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 26 Mar '24

26 Mar '24

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 25 Mar '24

25 Mar '24

======================================================== 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)

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Suman Sadhukhan on March 19 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 18 Mar '24

18 Mar '24

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.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Suman Sadhukhan on March 19 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 13 Mar '24

13 Mar '24

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.

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Postdoctoral fellowship: monitoring cyberphysical systems with quantities
by Étienne André 05 Mar '24

05 Mar '24

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/

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CFP IEEE Edge 2024, Shenzhen, China.
by Nitin Auluck 01 Mar '24

01 Mar '24

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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QEST+FORMATS: Call for Papers
by Patrick Totzke 16 Feb '24

16 Feb '24

[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)

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Invitation Guest Speaker @ ACFTI Cybersecurity stream
by Andrew Zayine 12 Feb '24

12 Feb '24

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

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Call for Participation, ASPLOS'24
by Madhavan Mukund 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

----- 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 -----

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ACM India PhD Clinic mentoring at ISEC 2024
by Madhavan Mukund 09 Feb '24

09 Feb '24

----- 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 -----

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SAT 2024: Second Call for Papers
by Supratik Chakraborty 08 Feb '24

08 Feb '24

(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

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Register for ISEC 2024
by Madhavan Mukund 06 Feb '24

06 Feb '24

----- 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 02 Feb '24

02 Feb '24

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 25 Jan '24

25 Jan '24

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 22 Jan '24

22 Jan '24

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.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Thejaswini Raghavan on Jan. 23 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 17 Jan '24

17 Jan '24

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.

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ISEC 2024: Registration and Student Travel Support
by Madhavan Mukund 08 Jan '24

08 Jan '24

----- 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 -----

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Call for Abstracts- World Logic Day Celebration 2024 (Hybrid)
by Tephilla 03 Jan '24

03 Jan '24

(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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Internship opportunity for formal methods PhD students at GE Aerospace India
by Supratik Chakraborty 02 Jan '24

02 Jan '24

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.

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FAACS 2024 - Call for Research Papers
by Nadeem Abbas 18 Dec '23

18 Dec '23

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 08 Dec '23

08 Dec '23

(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

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Tutorial on Civl verifier for concurrent programs @ POPL 2024, January 14, 2024
by Shaz Qadeer 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

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 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

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 28 Nov '23

28 Nov '23

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 27 Nov '23

27 Nov '23

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 26 Nov '23

26 Nov '23

----- Forwarded message from IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> ----- From: IMT2019057 Nandakishore S Menon <Nandakishore.Menon(a)iiitb.ac.in> 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 22 Nov '23

22 Nov '23

----- 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 -----

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Madhusudan Parthasarathy on Nov. 28 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 21 Nov '23

21 Nov '23

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 20 Nov '23

20 Nov '23

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 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

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 15 Nov '23

15 Nov '23

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 11 Nov '23

11 Nov '23

----- 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 30 Oct '23

30 Oct '23

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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8th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Call for participation
by Kumar Madhukar 29 Oct '23

29 Oct '23

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. Early registration for the school closes on Nov. 10th. 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 Nov. 26th. 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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EAI ICECI 2023 CFP: Deadline Extended to Nov.5
by Qin Liu 18 Oct '23

18 Oct '23

Call for Papers for 4th International Conference on Edge Computing and IoT: Systems, Management and Security (EAI ICECI 2023) Venue & Dates: Changsha, Hunan Province, December 13-14, 2023 Conference Website: https://iceci-conference.eai-conferences.org/2023/ Scope The dramatically-increasing devices and data traffic in the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era are posing significant burdens on the capacity-limited Internet and uncontrollable service delay. Computing paradigms are shifting from the centralized cloud computing to distributed edge computing or IoT. New computing paradigms, including Mobile Edge Computing and IoT, have emerged to leverage the distributed resources. The proceedings of EAI ICECI 2023 is aiming to be a premier international conference in edge computing and IoT. This conference is to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers and researchers to discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the area of edge computing or IoT include all aspects with emphasis on systems, management and security. Topics We welcome contributions from the following fields: Modelling Cloud and Fog computing solutions for IoT and Edge Computing Systems Monitoring and Managing Information Systems in IoT and Mobile Edge Computing Models, methods, and tools for data management in IoT and Mobile Edge Computing Energy-awareness and sustainability in IoT and Edge Computing: metrics and measurements Recent advances in deep learning and applications in IoT and Edge Computing Quality of Service, energy efficiency and security in Mobile Edge Computing Methodologies and tools for energy efficiency and security compliance in IoT and Edge Computing Adaptive approaches to managing energy consumption, QoS, and security of applications and systems Energy and Security Aware Edge Computing solutions Data-Driven and its applications in IoT and Edge Computing systems Important dates Late Track Submission Deadline: 5 November 2023 Notification Deadline: 15 November 2023 Camera-Ready Deadline: 30 November 2023 Main Track Submission Deadline: 25 August 2023 Notification Deadline: 19 September 2023 Camera-ready Deadline: 17 October 2023 Publication All registered papers will be submitted for publishing by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library. Proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in leading indexing services, such as Web of Science, Compendex, Scopus, DBLP, EU Digital Library, IO-Port, MatchSciNet, Inspec and Zentralblatt MATH. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) Journal [IF: 3.8 (2022)] Electronics All accepted authors are eligible to submit an extended version in a fast track of: EAI Endorsed Transactions on Internet of Things (Open Access) Additional publication opportunities: EAI Transactions series (Open Access) EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing Book Series (titles in this series are indexed in Ei Compendex, Web of Science & Scopus) Paper submission Papers should be submitted through EAI ‘Confy+‘ system, and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author’s kit section). Regular papers should be up to 12-15+ pages in length. Short papers should be 6-11 pages in length. All conference papers undergo a thorough peer review process prior to the final decision and publication. This process is facilitated by experts in the Technical Program Committee during a dedicated conference period. Standard peer review is enhanced by EAI Community Review which allows EAI members to bid to review specific papers. All review assignments are ultimately decided by the responsible Technical Program Committee Members while the Technical Program Committee Chair is responsible for the final acceptance selection. You can learn more about Community Review here. -- 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 Subhajit Roy on Oct. 10 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 09 Oct '23

09 Oct '23

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

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

04 Oct '23

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

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

03 Oct '23

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

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

15 Sep '23

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

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

14 Sep '23

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

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

11 Sep '23

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

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

05 Sep '23

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

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ISEC 2024 CFP
by Madhavan Mukund 08 Aug '23

08 Aug '23

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

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

31 Jul '23

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

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

28 Jul '23

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

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

25 Jul '23

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

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[Deadline Extension] CFP: ICISS-2023 - the 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (August 10, 2023)
by Madhavan Mukund 22 Jul '23

22 Jul '23

----- Forwarded message from Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> ----- Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2023 03:56:18 +0530 From: Vishwas Patil <vishwasp(a)cse.iitb.ac.in> Due to several requests for a deadline extension, we have extended the submission deadline to August 10 (the final deadline). Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2023. Key highlights: - Double-blind review - Notification of results: September 20, 2023 - One best paper award - 2 Keynotes, 1 invited talk (Sanjam Garg - UC Berkeley, Nishanth Chandran - MS Research, Thomas Silkjaer - XRP Ledger Foundation) - Proceedings by Springer LNCS - the possibility of an invitation to publish extended versions in the Sadhana journal ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ICISS 2023 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (December 16 - 20, 2023) NIT Raipur, India https://iciss.isrdc.in @IcissConf Submission Deadline: August 10, 2023 (final deadline) ______________________________________________________________________ The 19th ICISS will be held at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur between December 16 and 20, 2023. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome. This year, we will also accept PoCs of security applications under a separate demo track and allow submission of artefacts; a separate call is announced on the conference website. A broad but non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as below: SYSTEMS SECURITY OS, VM, containers, cloud Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN IoT, RFID, SCADA systems Communication Protocols IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc Honeypot, Botnet, etc ACCESS CONTROL Authentication, MFA Authorization model/policy PKI & Trust management Information flow control APPLICATION SECURITY Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps API security, WAF, OWASP Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust Malware, Ransomware, APTs SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Bias, fairness, explainability Model stealing, poisoning Trustworthiness Deep fakes, misinformation HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML EMERGING TECH/STANDARDS ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, et al Security-by-design, SBOM Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII S&P USE CASES e-voting, e-gov, smart cities COVID-19 contact tracing OSINT et al Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages; including the bibliography and appendices. Authors must use the LNCS template to create the manuscript. A 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 the authors of the manuscript. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting to ICISS. The extended versions of a select few accepted papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Further details will be made available on the conference website in due course of time. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss20231 *** The BEST PAPER award is sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. *** Important Dates (in AoE): Submission deadline: Aug 10 (final deadline) Acceptance notification: Sep 20 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30 Steering Committee: Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Atul Prakash, University of Michigan Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay General Chair: R.K. Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay Program Chairs: Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University Sithu D Sudarsan, CDAC Bangalore Related Links: Conference Website: https://iciss.isrdc.in Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss Call for Papers/Tutorials/PhD Forum https://iciss.isrdc.in/cfps/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Submission Guidelines https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Proceedings will be published by Springer as LNCS. ______________________________________________________________________ ----- End forwarded message -----

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Soliciting talks in PL and Verification to RHPL@FSTTCS 2023
by abhisekh.sankaran＠tcs.com 17 Jul '23

17 Jul '23

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

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FSTTCS 2023 - Third Call for Papers
by Shibashis Guha 12 Jul '23

12 Jul '23

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

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

10 Jul '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shaz Qadeer, an ACM Fellow, currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, July 11, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHF2OTJoMm…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs with Civl Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The Civl verifier <https://civl-verifier.github.io/> introduces layered refinement, a new approach to the construction of verified concurrent programs and their proofs. This approach simplifies and scales (human and automated) reasoning by enabling a concurrent program to be represented and manipulated at multiple layers of abstraction. These abstraction layers are chained together via simple program transformations; each transformation is justified by a collection of automatically-checked verification conditions. Civl proofs are maintainable and reusable, specifically eliminating the need to write complex invariants on the low-level encoding of the concurrent program as a flat transition system. Civl has been used to construct verified low-level implementations of complex systems such as a concurrent garbage collector, a consensus protocol, and shared-memory data structures. Bio: Shaz Qadeer is an ACM Fellow. His research focuses on practical tools for the construction of verified concurrent and distributed systems. He is currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta.

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ICISS-2023 CFP
by Madhavan Mukund 06 Jul '23

06 Jul '23

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

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

04 Jul '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shaz Qadeer, an ACM Fellow, currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, July 11, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHF2OTJoMm…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs with Civl Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The Civl verifier <https://civl-verifier.github.io/> introduces layered refinement, a new approach to the construction of verified concurrent programs and their proofs. This approach simplifies and scales (human and automated) reasoning by enabling a concurrent program to be represented and manipulated at multiple layers of abstraction. These abstraction layers are chained together via simple program transformations; each transformation is justified by a collection of automatically-checked verification conditions. Civl proofs are maintainable and reusable, specifically eliminating the need to write complex invariants on the low-level encoding of the concurrent program as a flat transition system. Civl has been used to construct verified low-level implementations of complex systems such as a concurrent garbage collector, a consensus protocol, and shared-memory data structures. Bio: Shaz Qadeer is an ACM Fellow. His research focuses on practical tools for the construction of verified concurrent and distributed systems. He is currently employed as a software engineer in the Core Infrastructure department at Meta.

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

04 Jul '23

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

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

04 Jul '23

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

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

02 Jul '23

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

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

29 Jun '23

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

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

28 Jun '23

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

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

19 Jun '23

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

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

17 Jun '23

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

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CFP - ICISS 2023 - 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (16-20 December, India)
by Madhavan Mukund 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

----- Forwarded message ----- Dear All, ICISS 2023 (the 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security) is accepting submissions now. Conference website: https://iciss.isrdc.in Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss20231 CFP link: https://iciss.isrdc.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cfp-iciss-2023.txt Please consider submitting to ICISS and encourage your group to participate. ______________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS ICISS 2023 19th International Conference on Information Systems Security (December 16 - 20, 2023) NIT Raipur, India https://iciss.isrdc.in Submission Deadline: July 20, 2023 ______________________________________________________________________ The 19th ICISS will be held at the National Institute of Technology (NIT) Raipur between December 16 and 20, 2023. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome. This year, we will also accept PoCs of security applications under a separate demo track and allow submission of artefacts; a separate call will be announced on the conference website in due course of time. A broad but non-exhaustive list of topics of interest is as below: ...................................................................... SYSTEMS SECURITY ACCESS CONTROL OS, VM, containers, cloud Authentication, MFA Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN Authorization model/policy IoT, RFID, SCADA systems PKI & Trust management Communication Protocols Information flow control IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc Honeypot, Botnet, etc PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech APPLICATION SECURITY Deidentification attacks Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps Surveillance & Censorship API security, WAF, OWASP Inference, correlation Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust Malware, Ransomware, APTs HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs BLOCKCHAIN Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA Cryptocurrency, stablecoins TEE, TRNG, 2FA, wallets Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML EMERGING TECH/STANDARDS ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, etc Security-by-design, SBOM SECURITY IN AI/ML Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII Adversarial learning/inputs Bias, fairness, explainability Model stealing, poisoning S&P USE CASES Trustworthiness e-voting, e-gov, smart cities Deep fakes, misinformation COVID-19 contact tracing ...................................................................... All submissions must be written in English; the PDF version should not exceed 20 pages; including the bibliography and appendices. Authors must use the LNCS template to create the manuscript. The conference proceedings will appear in the Springer LNCS series. Proceedings of past editions are available at: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss. The extended versions of a select few accepted papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Science's journal Sadhana. Further details will be made available on the conference website in due course of time. Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss20231 *** The BEST PAPER award is sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. *** Important Dates (in AoE): Submission deadline: July 20 Acceptance notification: Sep 15 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 25 Steering Committee: Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Atul Prakash, University of Michigan Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay General Chair: R.K. Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay Program Chairs: Vallipuram Muthukkumarasamy, Griffith University Sithu D Sudarsan, CDAC Bangalore Related Links: [Conference Website] https://iciss.isrdc.in [Call for Papers] https://iciss.isrdc.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/ICISS-2023-CFP-v3.1.pdf https://iciss.isrdc.in/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/cfp-iciss-2023.txt [Call for Tutorials/PhD Forum] https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ [Submissions] https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iciss20231 ______________________________________________________________________ Contact: ivishwas(a)gmail.com ______________________________________________________________________ ----- End forwarded message -----

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FSTTCS 2023 - Call for papers
by Shibashis Guha 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

December 18-20, 2023 at IIIT Hyderabad [1], India Website: https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2023/ FSTTCS 2023 is the 43rd conference on Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer Science. It is organised by IARCS [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. IMPORTANT DATES (all dates are AoE) Abstract Submission: July 12, 2023 Paper Submission: July 19, 2023 Notification: September 22, 2023 Camera Ready: October 5, 2023 Conference: December 18-20, 2023 Workshops: TBA PAPER SUBMISSION FSTTCS 2023 solicits high quality papers reporting research results to the topics mentioned below. Submissions must be in electronic form via EasyChair [4] using the LIPIcs LaTeX style file available here [5]. Submissions must not exceed 15 pages (excluding bibliography and a clearly marked appendix containing technical details). The appendix will be read only at the discretion of the program committee. Simultaneous submissions to journals or other conferences with published proceedings are disallowed. Accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) [6] 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 [7]. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper in person at the conference. TOPICS TRACK A * Algebraic Complexity * Algorithms and Data Structures * Algorithmic Graph Theory and Combinatorics * Approximation Algorithms * Combinatorial Optimization * Communication Complexity * Computational Biology * Computational Geometry * Computational Learning Theory * Cryptography and Security * Data Streaming and Sublinear algorithms * Economics and Computation * Parallel, Distributed and Online Algorithms * Parameterized Complexity * Proof Complexity * Quantum Computing * Randomness in Computing * Theoretical Aspects of Mobile and High-Performance Computing TRACK B * Automata, Games and Formal Languages * Logic in Computer Science * Modal and Temporal Logics * Models of Concurrent, Distributed and Mobile Systems * Models of Timed, Reactive, Hybrid and Stochastic and Quantum Systems * Model Theory * Principles and Semantics of Programming Languages * Program Analysis and Transformation * Security protocols * Specification, Verification and Synthesis * Theorem Proving and Decision Procedures PROGRAM COMMITTEE TRACK A * Siddharth Barman [8] (The Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India) * Arnab Bhattacharyya [9] (National University of Singapore, Singapore) * Parinya Chalermsook [10] (Aalto University, Finland) * Sivakanth Gopi [11] (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA) * Karthik C.S. [12] (Rutgers University, USA) * Venkata Koppula [13] (IIT Delhi, India) * Rucha Kulkarni [14] (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) * Mrinal Kumar [15] (TIFR, Mumbai, India) * Paloma Lima [16] (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) * Meena Mahajan [17] (The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai, India) * Nikhil Mande [18] (University of Liverpool, UK) * Neeldhara Misra [19] (IIT Gandhinagar, India) * Sagnik Mukhopadhyay [20] (University of Sheffield, UK) * Meghana Nasre [21] (IIT Madras, India) * Noga Ron-Zewi [22] (University of Haifa, Israel) * Chris Schwiegelshohn [23] (University of Aarhus, Denmark) * Srikanth Srinivasan [24] (University of Aarhus, Denmark) - Track A chair TRACK B * Aiswarya C. [25] (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) * Guy Avni [26] (University of Haifa, Israel) * Francesco Belardinelli [27] (Imperial College, UK) * Dietmar Berwanger [28] (CNRS, LMF, France) * Patricia Bouyer [29] (CNRS, LMF France) - Track B chair * Arnaud Carayol [30] (Université Gustave Eiffel, LIGM, France) * Supratik Chakraborty [31] (IIT Bombay, India) * Lorenzo Clemente [32] (University of Warsaw, Poland) * Ugo Dal Lago [33] (Università di Bologna, Italy) * P. Madhusudan [34] (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA) * Pavithra Prabhakar [35] (Kansas State University, USA) * Prakash Saivasan [36] (The Institute of Mathematical Science, Chennai, India) * Abhisekh Sankaran [37] (Tata Consultancy Services Research, Pune, India) * B. Srivathsan [38] (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) * Nathalie Sznajder [39] (Sorbonne Université, LIP6, France) * Tony Tan [40] (National Taiwan University) STEERING COMMITTEE * Paul Gastin [41] LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay * Amit Kumar [42] Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (Chair) * S Krishna [43] Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay * G Ramalingam [44] Microsoft Research, Bangalore * Venkatesh Raman [45] The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai * Kavitha Telikepalli [46] Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai Links: ------ [1] https://www.iiit.ac.in/ [2] http://www.iarcs.org.in/ [3] https://india.acm.org/ [4] https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fsttcs2023 [5] https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors [6] https://www.dagstuhl.de/en/publications/lipics/ [7] https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ [8] https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~barman/ [9] https://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~arnab/ [10] https://sites.google.com/site/parinyachalermsook/ [11] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/sigopi/ [12] http://karthikcs.org/ [13] https://web.iitd.ac.in/~kvenkata/ [14] https://ruchark2.web.engr.illinois.edu/ [15] https://mrinalkr.bitbucket.io/ [16] https://www.ii.uib.no/~palomal/ [17] https://www.imsc.res.in/~meena/ [18] https://mande-nikhil.github.io/ [19] https://iitgn.ac.in/faculty/cse/neeldhara [20] https://sagnikm.github.io/ [21] http://www.cse.iitm.ac.in/~meghana/ [22] https://sites.google.com/view/nogazewi [23] https://cs.au.dk/~schwiegelshohn/ [24] https://cs.au.dk/~srikanth/ [25] https://www.cmi.ac.in/~aiswarya/ [26] https://sites.google.com/view/gavni [27] https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~fbelard/ [28] http://www.lsv.fr/~dwb/ [29] http://www.lsv.fr/~bouyer/ [30] http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~carayol/ [31] https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~supratik/ [32] https://sites.google.com/view/lorenzoclemente/ [33] https://udallago.github.io/ [34] https://madhu.cs.illinois.edu/ [35] https://people.cs.ksu.edu/~pprabhakar/ [36] https://www.imsc.res.in/prakash_saivasan [37] https://abhisekhs.github.io/ [38] https://www.cmi.ac.in/~sri/ [39] https://pages.lip6.fr/Nathalie.Sznajder/ [40] https://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~tonytan/ [41] http://www.lsv.fr/~gastin/ [42] http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~amitk/ [43] https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~krishnas/ [44] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/grama/ [45] https://www.imsc.res.in/~vraman/ [46] https://www.tcs.tifr.res.in/~kavitha/

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[June 16] CFP - DPM 2023, Data Privacy Management, ESORICS 2023, LNCS proceedings & special issue, The Hague, The Netherlands, September 2023
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 06 Jun '23

06 Jun '23

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

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CRiSIS 2023 CfP: The 18th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 26 May '23

26 May '23

*************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP) 18th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS 2023). https://crisis-conference.org/ 6-8 Dec, 2023, Rabat, Morocco IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Submission deadline: June 23th, 2023 Notification of acceptance: August 10th, 2023 Camera-ready paper due: September 23nd, 2023 The International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems 2023 will be the 18th in a series dedicated to security issues in Internet-related applications, networks and systems. Internet has become essential for the exchange of information between user groups and organizations from different backgrounds and with different needs and objectives. These users are exposed to increasing risks regarding security and privacy, due to the development of more and more sophisticated online attacks, the growth of Cyber Crime, etc. Attackers nowadays do not lack motivation and they are more and more experienced. To make matters worse, for performing attacks have become easily accessible. Moreover, the increasing complexity as well as the immaturity of new technologies such as pervasive, mobile and wireless devices and networks, raise new security challenges. In this context, new security mechanisms and techniques should be deployed to achieve an assurance level acceptable for critical domains such as energy, transportation, health, defense, banking, critical infrastructures, embedded systems and networks, avionics systems, etc. The CRiSIS conference offers a remarkable forum for computer and network security actors from industry, academia and government to meet, exchange ideas and present recent advances on Internet-related security threats and vulnerabilities, and on the solutions that are needed to counter them. TOPICS ----------- We target contributions from both academia and industrials on the following topics, but not limited to: - AI and machine learning based security approaches - Analysis and management of risk - Attacks and defenses - Attack data acquisition and network monitoring - Authorization, Authentication, and Identity Management - Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies - Cryptography, biometrics, watermarking - Dependability and fault tolerance of Internet applications - Distributed systems security and safety - Embedded system security and safety - Empirical methods for security and risk evaluation - Hardware-based security and physical security - Intrusion detection and prevention systems - Organizational, ethical, and legal issues - Privacy protection and anonymization - Risk-aware access and usage control - Analysis and management of cyber crisis - Security and risk assessment - Security and risks metrics - Security and dependability of operating systems - Security and safety of critical infrastructures - Security and privacy of peer-to-peer system - Security and privacy of wireless networks - Security in Cloud/Edge/Fog computing - Security models and security policies - Security of big data - Security of industrial control systems - Security of intelligent transportation systems - Security of e-commerce, electronic voting and database systems - Security of new generation networks - Security of smart cities - Security of smart grid - Security of social networks - Security of the IoT and IIoT - Security of VoIP and multimedia - Smartphone security and privacy - Traceability, metrology and forensics - Trust management - Ubiquitous computing security - Use of smart cards and personal devices for Internet applications - Virtualization security - Web and Web-service security PAPER SUBMISSION ----------------------------- Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be written in English and must be submitted electronically in PDF format. The papers that will be selected for presentation at the conference will be included in post-proceedings published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (prior to publication the papers should be revised according to the review comments). Pre-proceedings will appear at the time of the conference. Maximum paper length will be 16 printed pages for full papers or 6 pages for short papers, in LNCS style. (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html) Authors must upload their paper as PDF file using the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=crisis2023 GENERAL CHAIRS ---------------------- - Redouane Benaini, Mohammed V University, Morocco - Frédéric Cuppens, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada - Nora Cuppens, Polytechnique Montreal, Canada PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS ---------------------- - Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, Mohammed V University, Morocco - Guillermo Navarro-Arribas, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain PUBLICITY CHAIRS ---------------------- - Slim Kallel, University of Sfax, Tunisia - Khadija Slimani, LDR-ESIEA Paris, France ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ---------------------- - Yassine Ouhammou, LIAS/ISAE-ENSMA, France - Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, Mohammed V University, Morocco - Meryam Belhiah, Mohammed V University, Morocco - Ayoub Nfissi, Mohammed V University, Morocco - Mouad Ben Mamoun, Mohammed V University, Morocco - Ahmed El-yahyaoui, Mohammed V University, Morocco - Abderrahmane Ez-zahout, Mohammed V University, Morocco

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Formal Methods Update Meeting 2023
by Sreejith A V 08 May '23

08 May '23

Dear all, The Formal Methods Update Meeting 2023 will be held as a physical meeting at IIT Goa during 29th June - 1st July, 2023. Please visit the website https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/update2023/ 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 2023

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ICECCS 2023 (June 2023, Toulouse, France): call for participation
by Neeraj Kumar Singh 08 May '23

08 May '23

Call for Participation ======================================================================================= 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) ======================================================================================= Dates: Wednesday, 14th June - Friday, 16th June 2023, Venue: Toulouse, France https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ The 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. Over the past years, we have seen a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. REGISTRATION ------------------- Author registration deadline: 25 April 2023 Early-bird registration deadline: 15th May 2023 For additional Information: https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/#register PROGRAM --------------- ICECCS 2023 will feature keynote speakers, interesting talks from research and practice in the fields of AI-Robustness and Explainability, AI-Formalization and Certification, System Verification, Software Systems Modeling and Engineering, Formal System Development, Verification and Testing of Robotic Systems, and Transportation Systems Engineering. Keynote speakers: * Joao Marques-Silva, CNRS, IRIT Toulouse on 14th June 2023 * Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore on 15th June 2023 * Ana Cavalcanti, University of York on 16th June 2023 The scientific programme is available at https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/#program VENUE ---------- ICECCS 2023 will take place at INPT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France. We are looking forward to welcoming you in person. Organizing Committee – ICECCS 2023 ==================================================================================

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CFP: 24th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2023)
by Neeraj 05 May '23

05 May '23

***************************************************************************************** 24th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2023) https://formal-analysis.com/icfem/2023/ ***************************************************************************************** ## Overview ICFEM (International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods) is an international leading conference series in formal methods and software engineering. Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving 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, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefit. ICFEM has been hosted in many countries around the world. This year, ICFEM 2023 will be held in Brisbane, Australia (physical) on November 21-24, 2023. ##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: - Abstraction, refinement and evolution - Formal specification and modelling - Formal verification and analysis - Model checking and equivalence checking - Automated and interactive theorem proving - Formal approaches to software testing and inspection - Formal methods for self-adaptive systems - Formal methods for object-oriented systems - Formal methods for component-based systems - Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems - Formal methods for cloud computing - Formal methods for cyber-physical systems - Formal methods for hardware and embedded systems - Formal methods for software safety and security - Formal methods for software reliability and dependability - Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems - Formal certification of products under international standards - Formal model-based development and code generation ##Important Dates - Abstract Submission: May 14, 2023 (AOE) - Paper Submission: May 21, 2023 (AOE) - Author Notification: July 30, 2023 - Camera-ready versions: Aug 13, 2023 - Conference: Nov 21-24, 2023 More information can be found on the website of ICFEM 2023: https://formal-analysis.com/icfem/2023/ Submission Instructions Submission should be done through the ICFEM 2023 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2023 As in previous years, 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 (including references) in the Springer's LNCS format. 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. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) ## Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs - Jin Song Dong, NUS and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia - Guangdong Bai, The University of Queensland, Australia Program Co-Chairs - Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University, Canada Finance Chair - Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Publicity Chair - Cheng-Hao Cai, Monash University at Suzhou, China - Neeraj Kumar Singh, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France Workshop Chair - Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University, Singapore

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ATVA 2023 (Singapore): extended deadline
by Étienne André 03 May '23

03 May '23

************************************************************ Call for Papers ** ATVA 2023 ** 24-27 October 2023 Singapore https://atva-conference.org/2023/ ************************************************************ 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis *** NEW: extended deadlines: May 11, 2023 (AoE) *** ## Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: April 27, 2023 (AoE) ==> May 11, 2023 (AoE) NEW * Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2023 (AoE) ==> May 11, 2023 (AoE) NEW * Paper notification: June 30, 2023 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: July 25, 2023 (AoE) * Conference: October 24 – October 27, 2023 (UTC +8) ATVA 2023 is the 21st 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 system * 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 * Analysis and verification of deep learning systems * Analysis and verification of blockchain based systems * Verification in industrial practice * Synthesis for hardware and software systems * Applications and case studies * Automated tool support ## Submissions ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: * Regular research papers (18 pages, excluding references) * Tool papers (6 pages, excluding references) Submissions must be in Springer's LNCS format. 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. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website. Adding line numbers (package lineno) is highly recommended. Tool papers must include information about a URL from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed on-line for evaluation. The URL must also contain a set of examples, and a user manual that describes usage of the tool through examples. In case the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the URL must contain instructions for installation of the tool on Linux/Windows/MacOS. For (regular and tool) papers reporting experiments, uploading an artifact on a long-term available platform is recommended (though not compulsory) Papers must be submitted through EasyChair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2023 Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. A best paper award will be given to an outstanding paper; the award will come with a 1000€ cash prize provided by Springer. ## Committees General Chair * Jin Song DONG, National University of Singapore Program Co-Chairs * Jun Sun, Singapore Management University * Étienne André, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Publicity Chair: * Lei Bu, Nanjing University Local Organization Chair * Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University Program committee * Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppsala University) * Saddek Bensalem (VERIMAG) * Udi Boker (Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel) * Lei Bu (Nanjing University) * Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of Science and Technology (IST)) * Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica) * Chih-Hong Cheng (Fraunhofer IKS) * Yunja Choi (Kyungpook National University) * Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG) * Susanna Donatelli (Dipartimento di Informatica) * Alexandre Duret-Lutz (EPITA's Research Lab (LRE)) * Bernd Finkbeiner (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) * Stefan Gruner (University of Pretoria) * Osman Hasan (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)) * Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics) * Jie-Hong Roland Jiang (National Taiwan University) * Ondrej Lengal (Brno University of Technology) * Shang-Wei Lin (Nanyang Technological University) * Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) * Jakob Piribauer (TU Dresden) * Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University) * Sasinee Pruekprasert (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) * Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University) * Indranil Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) * Ocan Sankur (Univ Rennes) * Fu Song (School of Information Science and Technology) * Marielle Stoelinga (University of Twente) * Michael Tautschnig (Queen Mary University of London) * Tachio Terauchi (Waseda University) * Jingyi Wang (Zhejiang University) * Chao Wang (University of Southern California) * Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica) * Zhilin Wu (Laboratory of Computer Science) * Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software) ATVA 2023 is referred by https://conferences-computer.science/

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FORMATS 2023 final call for papers with deadline extension
by B Srivathsan 24 Apr '23

24 Apr '23

FORMATS 2023: final call for papers with deadline extension - Abstract submission deadline extended to: 4 May 2023 (AoE) - Paper submission deadline extended to: 8 May 2023 (AoE) 21st International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/confest-2023/formats/ 19-21 September 2023, Antwerp, Belgium co-located with CONCUR, FMICS and QEST as part of CONFEST 2023 SCOPE & TOPICS FORMATS (International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems) is an annual conference which aims to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in the modelling, design and analysis of timed computational systems. The conference aims to attract researchers interested in real-time issues in hardware design, performance analysis, real-time software, scheduling, semantics and verification of real-timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): - Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems, languages and models (e.g., timed automata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models). - Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints (e.g., scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving). - Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (e.g., real-time software, hardware circuits, scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication, robotics). This year, FORMATS will incorporate a special track on: - Monitoring of cyber-physical systems. We encourage the submission of papers on all approaches related to the monitoring of cyber-physical systems, including monitoring methods, monitoring applications (such as robustness-guided falsification), and related techniques (such as validation of a formal specification for monitoring). INVITED SPEAKERS FORMATS 2023 will feature the following invited speakers: - Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (joint with all CONFEST conferences) - Nicolas Markey, CNRS & University of Rennes, France (joint with CONCUR) - David Parker, Oxford University, UK (joint with QEST, CONCUR) - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark (joint with CONCUR, FMICS) PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATS 2023 solicits high-quality papers describing research results, experience reports and/or tools related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS style guidelines. FORMATS 2023 has two categories of papers: - Regular papers, which should not exceed 15 pages in length - Short papers, which should not exceed 7 pages in length Both page limits exclude references, which are not limited in length. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2023 ARTIFACT EVALUATION FORMATS encourages authors to submit artifacts where appropriate, for example to demonstrate how to reproduce experimental data in a research paper or to examine the usability and applicability of a software tool. Artifacts will be evaluated by the Artifact Evaluation Committee and those that are accepted will receive a repeatability badge to be displayed on the first page of the published paper. For more details, see: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/confest-2023/formats/artifact/ PUBLICATION AND BEST PAPER AWARD The proceedings of FORMATS 2023 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The best paper of the conference will be awarded the Oded Maler Award in Timed Systems. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission: 21 April 2023 *now extended to 4 May 2023* (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper submission: 28 April 2023 *now extended to 8 May 2023* (Anywhere on Earth) - Acceptance notification: 16 June 2023 - Camera-ready deadline: 14 July 2023 - Conference: 19-21 September 2023 For any questions, feel free to contact the program chairs Laure Petrucci (Laure.Petrucci(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr) and Jeremy Sproston (sproston(a)di.unito.it) ORGANISATION Program Chairs - Laure Petrucci, University Sorbonne Paris Nord & CNRS, France - Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs - Arnd Hartmanns, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK Special Track Chair - Masaki Waga, Kyoto University, Japan Program Committee - Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK - Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Uppsala University, Sweden - Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Paris-Saclay, France - Franck Cassez, ConsenSys, USA - Pedro R. D'Argenio, National University of Córdoba, Argentina - Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California, USA - Catalin Dima, University Paris-Est Créteil, France - Miriam García Soto, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - Gilles Geeraerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Taylor T. Johnson, Vanderbilt University, USA - Jan Křetínský, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Engel Lefaucheux, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, Université de Lorraine, France - Jun Liu, University of Waterloo, Canada - Manuel Mazo Jr, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - Benjamin Monmege, Aix-Marseille Université, France - Dejan Ničković, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria - Nicola Paoletti, King's College London, UK - Laure Petrucci, University Sorbonne Paris Nord & CNRS, France (chair) - Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA - Krishna S., IIT Bombay, India - Ocan Sankur, CNRS & Rennes University, France - Sadegh Soudjani, Newcastle University, UK - Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin, Italy (chair) - Jiri Srba, Aalborg University, Denmark - B. Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India - Natalie Sznajder, Sorbonne Université & CNRS, France - Patrick Totzke, University of Liverpool, UK - Stavros Tripakis, Northeastern University, USA - Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy - Masaki Waga, Kyoto University, Japan - Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Steering Committee - Rajeev Alur (USA) - Eugene Asarin (France) - Martin Fränzle (chair, Germany) - Thomas A. Henzinger (Austria) - Joost-Pieter Katoen (Germany) - Kim G. Larsen (Denmark) - Oded Maler (founding chair, France) (1957-2018) - Pavithra Prabhakar (USA) - Mariëlle Stoelinga (The Netherlands) - Wang Yi (Sweden)

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Call for Presentations: Highlights 2023 (final call)
by Supratik Chakraborty 21 Apr '23

21 Apr '23

Please find attached the updated call for presentations for Highlights 2023 <https://highlights-conference.org/2023/cfp>, to be held in Kassel, Germany from July 24-28, 2023. The submission deadline for the second round of submissions is April 25, 2023 AoE. -Supratik

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ICECCS 2023 (June 2023, Toulouse, France): call for participation
by Étienne André 19 Apr '23

19 Apr '23

Call for Participation ======================================================================================= 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) ======================================================================================= Dates: Wednesday, 14th June - Friday, 16th June 2023, Venue: Toulouse, France https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ The 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. Over the past years, we have seen a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. REGISTRATION ------------------- Author registration deadline: 25 April 2023 Early-bird registration deadline: 15th May 2023 For additional Information: https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/#register PROGRAM --------------- ICECCS 2023 will feature keynote speakers, interesting talks from research and practice in the fields of AI-Robustness and Explainability, AI-Formalization and Certification, System Verification, Software Systems Modeling and Engineering, Formal System Development, Verification and Testing of Robotic Systems, and Transportation Systems Engineering. Keynote speakers: * Joao Marques-Silva, CNRS, IRIT Toulouse on 14th June 2023 * Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore on 15th June 2023 * Ana Cavalcanti, University of York on 16th June 2023 The scientific programme is available at https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/#program VENUE ---------- ICECCS 2023 will take place at INPT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France. We are looking forward to welcoming you in person. Organizing Committee – ICECCS 2023 ==================================================================================

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Sharon Shoham on Apr. 17 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Sharon Shoham Buchbinder, an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.. The talk is scheduled on *Monday, April 17, at 1900 hrs IST* (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzM0YmRkaW…>). 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: SAT-Based Invariant Inference and Its Relation to Concept Learning Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In recent years SAT-based invariant inference algorithms such as interpolation-based model checking and PDR/IC3 have proven to be extremely successful in practice. However, the essence of their practical success and their performance guarantees are far less understood. This talk surveys results that establish formal connections and distinctions between SAT-based invariant inference and exact concept learning with queries, showing that learning techniques and algorithms can clarify foundational questions, illuminate existing algorithms, and suggest new directions for efficient invariant inference. Bio: Sharon Shoham Buchbinder is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. Her main areas of research are formal verification and program analysis.

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WiL 2023: Co-located with FSCD 2023 (Abstract Submission Deadline: April 23) CfC
by Tephilla 16 Apr '23

16 Apr '23

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7th Women in Logic Workshop (WiL 2023) Second Call for Contributions Workshop Date: July 1, 2023 (Rome and online) Women in Logic: www.womeninlogic.org WiL 2023: https://sites.google.com/view/wil2023/home ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women in Logic 2023 is a satellite event of the 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023) to be held in Rome, Italy, from July 1 to July 6, 2023. 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 female 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, and Haifa 2022) were very successful in showcasing women's work and as catalysts for a recognition of the need for change in the community. WiL 2023 will be a hybrid event, however on-site participation is highly encouraged. 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 Marie Kerjean (CNRS, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord) Sandra Alves (Universidade de Porto, Portugal) IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission deadline: April 23, 2023 Notification: May 15, 2023 Funding Application: June 18th 23:59 CEST, 2023 on WiL 2023 Website Contribution for Informal Proceedings: June 25, 2023 Workshop: July 1, 2023 SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors) The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2023 Easychair page as a PDF file before the submission deadline on April 23, 2023, anywhere on Earth. https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wil2023 FUNDING Due to the generous support of our sponsors, we have limited funding available for speakers and other participants. If you would like to apply for it, please fill out the funding application on our website until June 18th 23:59 CEST. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna University of Technology) Zoé Christoff (University of Groningen) Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) Marie Fortin (IRIF) Sujata Ghosh (ISI Chennai) Sandra Kiefer (University of Oxford) – co-chair Cláudia Nalon (University of Brasília) Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho (Imperial College London) – co-chair Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) Tephilla Prince (IIT Dharwad) – co-chair Krishna S. (IIT Bombay) Alexandra Silva (Cornell University) Renata Wasserman (University of São Paulo) Best regards, Tephilla Prince Research Scholar IIT Dharwad

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Sharon Shoham on Apr. 17 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Sharon Shoham Buchbinder, an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University.. The talk is scheduled on *Monday, April 17, at 1900 hrs IST* (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzM0YmRkaW…>). 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: SAT-Based Invariant Inference and Its Relation to Concept Learning Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In recent years SAT-based invariant inference algorithms such as interpolation-based model checking and PDR/IC3 have proven to be extremely successful in practice. However, the essence of their practical success and their performance guarantees are far less understood. This talk surveys results that establish formal connections and distinctions between SAT-based invariant inference and exact concept learning with queries, showing that learning techniques and algorithms can clarify foundational questions, illuminate existing algorithms, and suggest new directions for efficient invariant inference. Bio: Sharon Shoham Buchbinder is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Tel Aviv University. Her main areas of research are formal verification and program analysis.

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ICFEM 2023 (Brisbane, Australia): First Call for Papers
by nsingh＠enseeiht.fr 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

***************************************************************************************** 24th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2023) https://formal-analysis.com/icfem/2023/ ***************************************************************************************** ## Overview ICFEM (International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods) is an international leading conference series in formal methods and software engineering. Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving 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, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefit. ICFEM has been hosted in many countries around the world. This year, ICFEM 2023 will be held in Brisbane, Australia (physical) on November 21-24, 2023. ##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: - Abstraction, refinement and evolution - Formal specification and modelling - Formal verification and analysis - Model checking and equivalence checking - Automated and interactive theorem proving - Formal approaches to software testing and inspection - Formal methods for self-adaptive systems - Formal methods for object-oriented systems - Formal methods for component-based systems - Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems - Formal methods for cloud computing - Formal methods for cyber-physical systems - Formal methods for hardware and embedded systems - Formal methods for software safety and security - Formal methods for software reliability and dependability - Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems - Formal certification of products under international standards - Formal model-based development and code generation ##Important Dates - Abstract Submission: May 14, 2023 (AOE) - Paper Submission: May 21, 2023 (AOE) - Author Notification: July 30, 2023 - Camera-ready versions: Aug 13, 2023 - Conference: Nov 21-24, 2023 More information can be found on the website of ICFEM 2023: https://formal-analysis.com/icfem/2023/ Submission Instructions Submission should be done through the ICFEM 2023 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2023 As in previous years, 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 (including references) in the Springer's LNCS format. 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. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details:https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-procee…) ## Organizing Committee General Co-Chairs - Jin Song Dong, NUS and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia - Guangdong Bai, The University of Queensland, Australia Program Co-Chairs - Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore - Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University, Canada Finance Chair - Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Publicity Chair - Cheng-Hao Cai, Monash University at Suzhou, China - Neeraj Kumar Singh, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France Workshop Chair - Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University, Singapore -- Neeraj Kumar Singh Associate Professor INPT-ENSEEIHT/IRIT F-313, 2 Rue Charles Camichel, BP 7122 31071 Toulouse, CEDEX 7, France Office: +33 5 34 32 21 82 Email: nsingh(a)enseeiht.fr <mailto:nsingh@enseeiht.fr> Web Page: http://singh.perso.enseeiht.fr <http://singh.perso.enseeiht.fr/>

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ATVA 2023 (Singapore): call for papers
by Étienne André 28 Mar '23

28 Mar '23

************************************************************ Call for Papers ** ATVA 2023 ** 24-27 October 2023 Singapore https://atva-conference.org/2023/ ************************************************************ 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis ## Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: April 27, 2023 (AoE) * Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2023 (AoE) * Paper notification: June 30, 2023 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: July 25, 2023 (AoE) * Conference: October 24 – October 27, 2023 (UTC +8) ATVA 2023 is the 21st 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 system * 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 * Analysis and verification of deep learning systems * Analysis and verification of blockchain based systems * Verification in industrial practice * Synthesis for hardware and software systems * Applications and case studies * Automated tool support ## Submissions ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: * Regular research papers (16 pages, excluding references) * Tool papers (6 pages, excluding references) Submissions must be in Springer's LNCS format. 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. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website. Adding line numbers (package lineno) is highly recommended. Tool papers must include information about a URL from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed on-line for evaluation. The URL must also contain a set of examples, and a user manual that describes usage of the tool through examples. In case the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the URL must contain instructions for installation of the tool on Linux/Windows/MacOS. For (regular and tool) papers reporting experiments, uploading an artifact on a long-term available platform is recommended (though not compulsory) Papers must be submitted through EasyChair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2023 Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. ## Committees General Chair * Jin Song DONG, National University of Singapore Program Co-Chairs * Jun Sun, Singapore Management University * Étienne André, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Publicity Chair: * Lei Bu, Nanjing University Local Organization Chair * Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University Program committee * Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppsala University) * Saddek Bensalem (VERIMAG) * Udi Boker (Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel) * Lei Bu (Nanjing University) * Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of Science and Technology (IST)) * Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica) * Chih-Hong Cheng (Fraunhofer IKS) * Yunja Choi (Kyungpook National University) * Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG) * Susanna Donatelli (Dipartimento di Informatica) * Alexandre Duret-Lutz (EPITA's Research Lab (LRE)) * Bernd Finkbeiner (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) * Stefan Gruner (University of Pretoria) * Osman Hasan (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)) * Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics) * Jie-Hong Roland Jiang (National Taiwan University) * Ondrej Lengal (Brno University of Technology) * Shang-Wei Lin (Nanyang Technological University) * Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) * Jakob Piribauer (TU Dresden) * Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University) * Sasinee Pruekprasert (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) * Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University) * Indranil Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) * Ocan Sankur (Univ Rennes) * Fu Song (School of Information Science and Technology) * Marielle Stoelinga (University of Twente) * Michael Tautschnig (Queen Mary University of London) * Tachio Terauchi (Waseda University) * Jingyi Wang (Zhejiang University) * Chao Wang (University of Southern California) * Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica) * Zhilin Wu (Laboratory of Computer Science) * Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software) ATVA 2023 is referred by https://conferences-computer.science/

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ASPLOS 2024: Call for Papers
by Madhavan Mukund 27 Mar '23

27 Mar '23

Message from Krishna Nandivada V <nvk(a)iitm.ac.in>, Publicity co-chair ASPLOS 2024. ====================================================================== Synopsis 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 2024 will take place in April 2024 in California. It has three submission deadlines – spring, summer and fall – which are meant to encourage authors to submit their papers when they are ready rather than before. Also, as an alternative to rejection, ASPLOS 2024 will allow the authors of some submissions to choose to apply a major revision to their submission in order to fix a well-defined list of problems. Important Dates and Submission Sites review cycle spring summer fall abstract submission 2023-04-13 2023-08-03 2023-11-23 full submission 2023-04-20 2023-08-10 2023-11-30 author response period start 2023-07-11 2023-10-24 2024-02-13 author response period end 2023-07-13 2023-10-26 2024-02-15 notification 2023-08-02 2023-11-15 2024-03-06 camera-ready 2023-09-19 2024-01-09 2024-03-27 submission site link All deadlines are at 3pm Eastern Time. Scope and Expectations The scope of ASPLOS 2024 covers all practical aspects related to the three main ASPLOS disciplines: computer architecture, programming languages, and operating systems, as well as closely-related associated areas. We seek original, high-quality research submissions that improve and further the knowledge of computer systems, with emphasis on the intersection between the main ASPLOS disciplines. Research submission may be applicable to computer systems of any scale, ranging from small, ultra-low power wearable devices to exascale parallel and cloud computers. We embrace research that directly targets new problems in innovative ways. The research may target diverse goals, such as performance, energy, and security. Non-traditional topics are encouraged, and the review process will be sensitive to the challenges of multidisciplinary work in emerging areas. We welcome experience submissions that have a novel aspect and that clearly articulate the lessons learned. We likewise welcome submissions that convincingly refute prior published results and common wisdom. We value submissions more highly if they are accompanied by clearly defined artifacts not previously available, including traces, original data, source code, or tools developed as part of the submitted work. We particularly encourage new ideas and approaches. Alphabetically sorted areas of interest related to practical aspects of computer architecture, programming languages, and operating systems include but are not limited to: □ Existing, emerging, and nontraditional compute platforms at all scales □ Heterogeneous architectures and accelerators □ Internet services, cloud computing, and datacenters □ Memory, storage, networking, and I/O □ Power, energy, and thermal management □ Profiling, debugging, and testing □ Security, reliability, and availability □ Systems for enabling parallelism and computation on big data □ Virtualization and virtualized systems A good submission will typically: motivate a significant problem; propose a practical solution or approach that makes sense; demonstrate not just the pros but also the cons of the proposal using sound experimental methods; explicitly disclose what has and has not been implemented; articulate the new contributions beyond previous work; and refrain from overclaiming, focusing the abstract and introduction sections primarily on the difference between the new proposal and what is already available. Submissions will be judged on relevance, novelty, technical merit, and clarity. Submissions are expected to avoid committing “benchmarking crimes,” and they must follow all the policies specified below. Resubmissions Authors of resubmitted work should describe in a separate note – uploaded to the submission site – the changes since the previous submission(s). This description helps reviewers who may have reviewed a previous draft of the work to appreciate any improvements to the currently submitted work. Please try to limit this document to one page. Submissions rejected from ASPLOS must not be submitted to the next two subsequent review cycles. The following table details when ASPLOS ’23 and ASPLOS ’24 rejections can be resubmitted to ASPLOS ’24 and ASPLOS ’25. if rejected from must not resubmit to may resubmit to 2023 spring – 2024 spring or later 2023 summer 2024 spring 2024 summer or later 2023 fall 2024 spring & summer 2024 fall or later 2024 spring 2024 summer & fall 2025 spring or later 2024 summer 2024 fall & 2025 spring 2025 summer or later 2024 fall 2025 spring & summer 2025 fall or later The above rules are strict and hold even if your submission has undergone extensive revisions. (We apologize to authors of any ASPLOS ‘23 rejections who might not have expected to be affected by this policy.) Major Revision Option When the outcome of a review cycle is publicized, some submissions will be associated with a “revise and resubmit” decision. The authors of such submissions will be given the opportunity to apply a major revision to their work and resubmit it after around 6 weeks. These submissions will be provided with clear and actionable reviewer feedback for their revision, and they will be typically reviewed by the same reviewers as the original submission. If the revision requirements are satisfactorily met, the revised submission will be accepted. Artifact Evaluation Artifact evaluation will continue in 2024 as has become a tradition at ASPLOS. More details will become available later. ======================================================================

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NETYS 2023 - Deadline Extension
by Madhavan Mukund 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Call For Papers (Deadline Extension) THE 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKED SYSTEMS (NETYS 2023) May 22-24, 2023, Marrakech, Morroco http://www.netys.net Aim and Scope: -------------- NETYS aims to bring together researchers and engineers from both 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, concurrent and distributed algorithms, parallel/concurrent/distributed programming, multi-core architectures, distributed databases, cloud systems, networks, security, formal verification, etc. NETYS will provide a forum to report on best practices and 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 include (but are not limited to): - Cloud systems and data centers - Parallel/concurrent/distributed algorithms and programming - Cyber-physical systems - Distributed databases, embedded and operating systems - Distributed ledgers and blockchain technologies - Event-based systems - Formal verification - Internet of Things, 5G, URLLC - Mobile, wireless, ad-hoc and sensor networks - Game Theory, Mechanisms design - Overlay and peer-to-peer infrastructures - Decentralized Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning - Multi-core architectures and multithreaded applications - Security and privacy - Self-stabilizing, self-organizing, and autonomic systems - Social networks - Static and dynamic analysis and testing - Collaborative intelligent systems Confirmed Keynote Speakers: --------------------------- Gilles Barthe (Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Germany) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) Nate Foster (Cornell University, USA) Iordanis Kerenidis (University Paris Diderot, France) Peter Müller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Ruzica Piskac (Yale University, USA) Important dates (all deadlines are at 23:59 AoE): ----------------- - Abstract submission: March 22, 2023 (recommended) - Paper submission: March 29, 2023 - Notifications: April 27, 2023 - Camera-ready submission: May 11, 2023 - Conference dates: May 22-24, 2023 Publication: ------------ Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series will publish the proceedings of the conference (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) It is required that each accepted paper be presented at the conference by one of its authors. 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 the appendix will be read at the discretion of the reviewers; therefore, the main body of the paper should contain sufficient details to assess its contributions. Submission of papers is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=netys2023 Program Chairs: David Mohaisen <mohaisen(a)ucf.edu> Thomas Wies <wies(a)cs.nyu.edu>

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Markus Kuppe on Mar. 14 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 13 Mar '23

13 Mar '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Markus Kuppe, a Principal Research Software Development Engineer in the Research In Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March 14, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzdlMXZ1c2…>). 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: TLA+: The Tools, The Language, and The Application Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: TLA+ is a language for formally specifying and verifying discrete systems, including distributed algorithms. Users describe the system as a state machine, written in a language based on mathematical set theory and temporal logic, which also serves to express safety and liveness properties. TLA+ comes with tools for computer-assisted verification, including two model checkers and an interactive proof system. TLA+ is used in academia and industry, e.g., to verify data consistency in cloud applications. This talk will cover the theory behind TLA+ and how practitioners can write TLA+ specifications with the help of verification tools. Additionally, we will discuss known limitations of the tools and outline current and future research opportunities. Bio: Markus Kuppe is a Principal Research Software Development Engineer in the Research In Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. His focus is on making specification-driven development (with TLA+) more popular among engineers. This includes scaling verification to real-world problems and building tools to combine specification-driven development with established software engineering processes.

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cfp for IEEE Edge 2023; submission deadline = Extended deadline March 25, 2023.
by Nitin Auluck 09 Mar '23

09 Mar '23

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 2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2023 - https://conferences.computer.org/edge/2023/) 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 - https://conferences.computer.org/services/2023/) IEEE EDGE 2023 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2023 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2023 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 · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) – UPDATED! ● March 25, 2023: Easy Chair closes for submissions (e.g., HARD submission deadline) ● April 23, 2023: Acceptance notification ● July 2-8, 2023: SERVICES Congress in Chicago ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2023 GENERAL CHAIRS Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Omer Rana, Cardiff University IEEE EDGE 2023 PROGRAM CHAIRS Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University Nirmit Desai, IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center IEEE EDGE 2023 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada -- 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 | 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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ETAPS 2023 (Paris): offer for Extended Stay Support Scheme
by Étienne André 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

ETAPS 2023 EXTENDED STAY SUPPORT SCHEME The ETAPS 2023 conference (European joint conferences on theory & practice of software), organized in Paris from 22nd to 27th April 2023, offers an Extended Stay Support Scheme (ESSS) aiming at enhancing scientific collaborations and diminishing the carbon footprint of scientific research activities, following similar initiatives at HIGHLIGHTS and ICALP. ETAPS 2023 attendees are encouraged to combine their visit to Paris with collaborations with local researchers. In a nutshell: interested individual participants to ETAPS can get a financial support from interested labs to stay longer "near" Paris, supported by labs throughout France or neighboring countries (Belgium and Switzerland). This support scheme is primarily intended for participants traveling long distances and must be combined with an attendance to ETAPS 2023. Upon acceptation, research institutes involved in this mechanism will cover standard expenses (accommodation and traveling fees, plane excluded) and will provide material support for research activities. How to apply to the ETAPS 2023 Extended Stay Support Scheme? Application to the ETAPS 2023 Extended Stay Support Scheme is made by two persons, a visitor and a local collaborator and should be sent to the contact person in the hosting research institute. The application should include: - The name of the visitor (the ETAPS attendant) mentioning their affiliation, city and country of origin - The name of the local collaborator - The dates of the visits - Few lines describing the subject of the collaboration The ETAPS organizers are NOT involved in this selection process. Web page: https://etaps.org/2023/esss/ Specific constraints: - For applying, the visitor should attend ETAPS 2023 - Dates of the visit do not have to be adjacent to the conference dates as long as the applicant avoids traveling by plane in between - If too many applications are received, further criteria of selection may have to be applied by the inviting labs, such as favoring long distance participants or applying "first come first served" policy. The research labs participating to the scheme are so far: * CRIStAL, Lille (https://www.cristal.univ-lille.fr/?rubrique9) Contact: <Patrick Baillot patrick.baillot(a)univ-lille.fr> * EPFL, SYSTEMF, Lausanne (https://www.epfl.ch/) Contact: Clément Pit-Claudel (https://pit-claudel.fr/clement/) * Irif, Université Paris-Cité, Paris (https://www.irif.fr/) Contact: Thomas Colcombet <thomas.colcombet(a)irif.fr> * LAAS, Toulouse (https://www.laas.fr/public/en) Contact: Silvano Dal Zilio <dalzilio(a)laas.fr> * LABRI, Bordeaux (https://www.labri.fr/en) Contact: Cyril Gavoille <gavoille(a)labri.fr> * LIP, ENS Lyon (http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/) Contact: Denis Kuperberg <denis.kuperberg(a)ens-lyon.fr> * Lip6, Sorbonne Université, Paris (https://www.lip6.fr/recherche/index.php) and co-organizer of ETAPS 2023. Contact: Fabrice Kordon <Fabrice.Kordon(a)lip6.fr> * LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse (https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/) and co-organizer of ETAPS 2023. Contact: Étienne André <Andre.Etienne(a)lipn13.fr> * LiS, Marseille (https://www.lis-lab.fr/) Contact: Pierre-Alain Reynier <pierre-alain.reynier(a)lis-lab.fr> * LMF, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay (https://lmf.cnrs.fr/) Contact: Dietmar Berwanger <dwb(a)lsv.fr> * LORIA, Université de Lorraine & Inria, Nancy (https://www.loria.fr/en/) Contact: Stephan Merz <stephan.merz(a)loria.fr> * LS2N, Université de Nantes (SLS axis: https://www.ls2n.fr/pole/SLS/) Contact: Dalila Tamzalit <dalila.tamzalit(a)univ-nantes.fr> * LSL, CEA List, Saclay (https://pyrat-analyzer.com/) Contact: CHIHANI Zakaria <Zakaria.CHIHANI(a)cea.fr> * Telecom Paris (https://www.telecom-paris.fr/en/research/laboratories/information-processin…) Contact: Théo Zimmermann <theo.zimmermann(a)telecom-paris.fr> * ULB, Team "Formal Methods and Verification" (https://verif.ulb.ac.be/) Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Emmanuel Filiot <efiliot(a)ulb.be> * Verimag, Grenoble (https://www-verimag.imag.fr/) Contact: verimag-direction(a)univ-grenoble-alpes.fr Other research labs may be added to this list. For applying as a researcher, please contact the research lab of interest. For applying as a research unit, please get in touch with Andre.Etienne(a)lipn13.fr

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Markus Kuppe on Mar. 14 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 07 Mar '23

07 Mar '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Markus Kuppe, a Principal Research Software Development Engineer in the Research In Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, March 14, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MzdlMXZ1c2…>). 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: TLA+: The Tools, The Language, and The Application Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: TLA+ is a language for formally specifying and verifying discrete systems, including distributed algorithms. Users describe the system as a state machine, written in a language based on mathematical set theory and temporal logic, which also serves to express safety and liveness properties. TLA+ comes with tools for computer-assisted verification, including two model checkers and an interactive proof system. TLA+ is used in academia and industry, e.g., to verify data consistency in cloud applications. This talk will cover the theory behind TLA+ and how practitioners can write TLA+ specifications with the help of verification tools. Additionally, we will discuss known limitations of the tools and outline current and future research opportunities. Bio: Markus Kuppe is a Principal Research Software Development Engineer in the Research In Software Engineering group at Microsoft Research, Redmond. His focus is on making specification-driven development (with TLA+) more popular among engineers. This includes scaling verification to real-world problems and building tools to combine specification-driven development with established software engineering processes.

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ATVA 2023 (Singapore): first call for papers
by Étienne André 28 Feb '23

28 Feb '23

************************************************************ Call for Papers ** ATVA 2023 ** 24-27 October 2023 Singapore https://atva-conference.org/2023/ ************************************************************ 21st International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis ATVA 2023 is the 21st 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 system * 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 * Analysis and verification of deep learning systems * Analysis and verification of blockchain based systems * Verification in industrial practice * Synthesis for hardware and software systems * Applications and case studies * Automated tool support ## Submissions ATVA welcomes submissions in the following two categories: * Regular research papers (16 pages, excluding references) * Tool papers (6 pages, excluding references) Submissions must be in Springer's LNCS format. 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. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website. Adding line numbers (package lineno) is highly recommended. Tool papers must include information about a URL from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed on-line for evaluation. The URL must also contain a set of examples, and a user manual that describes usage of the tool through examples. In case the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the URL must contain instructions for installation of the tool on Linux/Windows/MacOS. For (regular and tool) papers reporting experiments, uploading an artifact on a long-term available platform is recommended (though not compulsory) Papers must be submitted through EasyChair. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2023 Accepted papers in both categories will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to register and present the paper at the conference. ## Important Dates * Abstract submission deadline: April 27, 2023 (AoE) * Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2023 (AoE) * Paper notification: June 30, 2023 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: July 25, 2023 (AoE) * Conference: October 24 – October 27, 2023 (UTC +8) ## Committees General Chair * Jin Song DONG, National University of Singapore Program Co-Chairs * Jun Sun, Singapore Management University * Étienne André, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord Publicity Chair: * Lei Bu, Nanjing University Local Organization Chair * Xiaofei Xie, Singapore Management University Program committee * Mohamed Faouzi Atig (Uppsala University) * Saddek Bensalem (VERIMAG) * Udi Boker (Reichman University, Herzliya, Israel) * Lei Bu (Nanjing University) * Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of Science and Technology (IST)) * Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica) * Chih-Hong Cheng (Fraunhofer IKS) * Yunja Choi (Kyungpook National University) * Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG) * Susanna Donatelli (Dipartimento di Informatica) * Alexandre Duret-Lutz (EPITA's Research Lab (LRE)) * Bernd Finkbeiner (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) * Stefan Gruner (University of Pretoria) * Osman Hasan (National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)) * Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics) * Jie-Hong Roland Jiang (National Taiwan University) * Ondrej Lengal (Brno University of Technology) * Shang-Wei Lin (Nanyang Technological University) * Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University) * Jakob Piribauer (TU Dresden) * Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University) * Sasinee Pruekprasert (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology) * Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University) * Indranil Saha (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur) * Ocan Sankur (Univ Rennes) * Fu Song (School of Information Science and Technology) * Marielle Stoelinga (University of Twente) * Michael Tautschnig (Queen Mary University of London) * Tachio Terauchi (Waseda University) * Jingyi Wang (Zhejiang University) * Chao Wang (University of Southern California) * Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica) * Zhilin Wu (Laboratory of Computer Science) * Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software) ATVA 2023 is referred by https://conferences-computer.science/ -- Étienne André Université Sorbonne Paris Nord https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~andre/

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1st Call for Contributions - Women in Logic Workshop (WiL 2023)
by Tephilla 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

Are you a woman working in logic? Please join us on July 1 at WiL, give a talk, and enjoy a day with Women in Logic! Please submit an abstract of 1-2 pages by April 23, 2023 (AoE), via EasyChair. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions WiL 2023: 7th Women in Logic Workshop July 1, 2023 Co-located with FSCD 2023 https://sites.google.com/view/wil2023/home ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Women in Logic 2023 is a satellite event of the 8th International Conference on Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2023) to be held in Rome, Italy, from July 1 to July 6, 2023. 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 female 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, and Haifa 2022) 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 - Marie Kerjean (LIPN, Institut Galilée) - TBA IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission deadline: April 23, 2023 - Notification: May 15, 2023 - Contribution for Informal Proceedings: June 25, 2023 - Workshop: July 1, 2023 SUBMISSIONS Abstracts should be written in English (1-2 pages), and prepared using the Easychair style (https://easychair.org/publications/for_authors) The abstracts should be uploaded to the WiL 2023 Easychair page https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=wil2023 as a PDF file before the submission deadline on April 23, 2023, anywhere on Earth. ORGANIZING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE - Sandra Alves (University of Porto) - Agata Ciabattoni (Vienna University of Technology) - Zoé Christoff (University of Groningen) - Amy Felty (University of Ottawa) - Marie Fortin (IRIF) - Sujata Ghosh (ISI Chennai) - Sandra Kiefer (University of Oxford) – co-chair - Cláudia Nalon (University of Brasília) - Daniele Nantes-Sobrinho (Imperial College London) – co-chair - Valeria de Paiva (Topos Institute) - Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA) - Tephilla Prince (IIT Dharwad) – co-chair - Krishna S. (IIT Bombay) - Alexandra Silva (Cornell University) - Renata Wasserman (University of São Paulo) -- Tephilla Prince Research Scholar Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering IIT Dharwad

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Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms' [NUMTA2023] - 14 to 20 June 2023 in Calabria, Italy
by gopal 21 Feb '23

21 Feb '23

The 4th International Triennial Conference and Summer School 'Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms' (NUMTA2023) will be held (in hybrid format) from 14 to 20 June 2023 in Calabria, Italy, at the all-inclusive resort "Tui Magic Life Calabria" on the Tyrrhenian coast and close to the Lamezia Terme international airport. The Conference is organized by the University of Calabria, Department of Computer Engineering, Modelling, Electronics and Systems Science, Italy, in cooperation with the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), USA. Together with regular presentations at the Conference there will be the Summer School offering tutorials and discussion sections covering the topics of the Conference. Participants at the Summer School can submit either regular papers or participate at the poster session that will also be organized. English is the working language both at the Conference and the Summer School. This is the fourth edition of NUMTA (since 2013); more than 200 researchers from 30 countries around the world have attended the previous NUMTA2019 conference, Website: https://www.numta.org Main topics: Numerical analysis, computational models, optimization and machine learning, and emerging computational paradigms. Confirmed plenary lectures and tutorials: Luigi Brugnano (Italy), Lou D'Alotto (USA), Renato De Leone (Italy), Kalyanmoy Deb (USA), Francesca Mazzia (Italy), Panos Pardalos (USA), Witold Pedrycz (Canada), Yaroslav Sergeyev (Italy), Nick Trefethen (UK). Publications: A book of one-page abstracts will be available on the conference webpage. Participants regularly registered for NUMTA may also submit their full papers to the post-conference proceedings that will be published in the Springer LNCS series: short 6-8+ and long 12-15+ original research papers will be regularly peer-reviewed. Special issues of highly cited international journals will also be organized. Submission system: https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/NUMTA2023 A registration fee for in-person or virtual (zoom) participation in NUMTA2023 will be required (registration will open soon). Special benefits are reserved for the organizers of the NUMTA2023 Streams and Special Sessions. The NUMTA2023 Young Researcher Prize (500 Euros and a certificate) will be awarded to the best presentation made by a young scientist (not older than 30 years). Deadlines: April 2, 2023: One-page abstract submission April 16, 2023: Regular registration May 21, 2023: Submission of papers (short or long) for LNCS proceedings May 21, 2023: Late registration and Submission of applications for the NUMTA2023 Young Researcher Prize Information is continuously updated on the conference website https://www.numta.org where details of the three previous editions (2019, 2016 and 2013) of this conference are available. 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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ETAPS 2023 (Paris) extended stay support scheme: fly less, stay longer
by Étienne André 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

ETAPS 2023 EXTENDED STAY SUPPORT SCHEME The ETAPS 2023 conference (European joint conferences on theory & practice of software) offers to its attendees an Extended Stay Support Scheme (IESS) aiming at enhancing scientific collaborations and diminishing the carbon footprint of scientific research activities, following similar initiatives at HIGHLIGHTS and ICALP. ETAPS 2023 attendees are encouraged to combine their visit to Paris with collaborations with local researchers. This support scheme is primarily intended for participants traveling long distances and must be combined with an attendance to ETAPS 2023. Upon acceptation, research institutes involved in this mechanism will cover standard expenses (accommodation and traveling fees, plane excluded) and will provide material support for research activities. How to apply to the ETAPS 2023 Extended Stay Support Scheme? Application to the ETAPS 2023 Extended Stay Support Scheme is made by two persons, a visitor and a local collaborator and should be sent to the contact person in the hosting research institute. The application should include: - The name of the visitor (the ETAPS attendant) mentioning their affiliation, city and country of origin - The name of the local collaborator - The dates of the visits - Few lines describing the subject of the collaboration Web page: https://etaps.org/2023/esss/ Specific constraints: - For applying, the visitor should attend ETAPS 2023 - Dates of the visit do not have to be adjacent to the conference dates as long as the applicant avoids traveling by plane in between - If too many applications are received, further criteria of selection may have to be applied, such as favoring long distance participants or applying "first come first served" policy. The research labs participating to the scheme are so far: * Irif, Université Paris-Cité, Paris (https://www.irif.fr/) Contact: Thomas Colcombet <thomas.colcombet(a)irif.fr> * LABRI, Bordeaux (https://www.labri.fr/en) Contact: Cyril Gavoille <gavoille(a)labri.fr> * LAAS, Toulouse (https://www.laas.fr/public/en) Contact: Silvano Dal Zilio <dalzilio(a)laas.fr> * Lip6, Sorbonne Université, Paris (https://www.lip6.fr/recherche/index.php) and co-organizer of ETAPS 2023. Contact: Fabrice Kordon <Fabrice.Kordon(a)lip6.fr> * LIPN, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, Villetaneuse (https://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/) and co-organizer of ETAPS 2023. Contact: Étienne André <Andre.Etienne(a)lipn13.fr> * LMF, Université Paris-Saclay, Saclay (https://lmf.cnrs.fr/) Contact: Dietmar Berwanger <dwb(a)lsv.fr> * LORIA, Université de Lorraine & Inria, Nancy (https://www.loria.fr/en/) Contact: Stephan Merz <stephan.merz(a)loria.fr> * ULB, Team "Formal Methods and Verification" (https://verif.ulb.ac.be/) Brussels, Belgium. Contact: Emmanuel Filiot <efiliot(a)ulb.be> Other research labs may be added to this list. For applying as a researcher, please contact the research lab of interest. For applying as a research unit, please get in touch with Andre.Etienne(a)lipn13.fr

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FORMATS 2023 second call for papers
by B Srivathsan 11 Feb '23

11 Feb '23

FORMATS 2023: second call for papers 21st International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/confest-2023/formats/ 19-21 September 2023, Antwerp, Belgium co-located with CONCUR, FMICS and QEST as part of CONFEST 2023 SCOPE & TOPICS FORMATS (International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems) is an annual conference which aims to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in the modelling, design and analysis of timed computational systems. The conference aims to attract researchers interested in real-time issues in hardware design, performance analysis, real-time software, scheduling, semantics and verification of real-timed, hybrid and probabilistic systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): - Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems, languages and models (e.g., timed automata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models). - Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints (e.g., scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving). - Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (e.g., real-time software, hardware circuits, scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication, robotics). This year, FORMATS will incorporate a special track on: - Monitoring of cyber-physical systems. We encourage the submission of papers on all approaches related to the monitoring of cyber-physical systems, including monitoring methods, monitoring applications (such as robustness-guided falsification), and related techniques (such as validation of a formal specification for monitoring). INVITED SPEAKERS FORMATS 2023 will feature the following invited speakers: - Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (joint with all CONFEST conferences) - Nicolas Markey, CNRS & University of Rennes, France (joint with CONCUR) - David Parker, Oxford University, UK (joint with QEST, CONCUR) - Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark (joint with CONCUR, FMICS) PAPER SUBMISSION FORMATS 2023 solicits high-quality papers describing research results, experience reports and/or tools related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS style guidelines. FORMATS 2023 has two categories of papers: - Regular papers, which should not exceed 15 pages in length - Short papers, which should not exceed 7 pages in length Both page limits exclude references, which are not limited in length. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2023 ARTIFACT EVALUATION FORMATS encourages authors to submit artifacts where appropriate, for example to demonstrate how to reproduce experimental data in a research paper or to examine the usability and applicability of a software tool. Artifacts will be evaluated by the Artifact Evaluation Committee and those that are accepted will receive a repeatability badge to be displayed on the first page of the published paper. For more details, see: https://www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferences/confest-2023/formats/artifact/ PUBLICATION AND BEST PAPER AWARD The proceedings of FORMATS 2023 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The best paper of the conference will be awarded the Oded Maler Award in Timed Systems. IMPORTANT DATES - Abstract submission: 21 April 2023 - Paper submission: 28 April 2023 - Acceptance notification: 16 June 2023 - Camera-ready deadline: 14 July 2023 - Conference: 19-21 September 2023 For any questions, feel free to contact the program chairs Laure Petrucci (Laure.Petrucci(a)lipn.univ-paris13.fr) and Jeremy Sproston (sproston(a)di.unito.it) ORGANISATION Program Chairs - Laure Petrucci, University Sorbonne Paris Nord & CNRS, France - Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin, Italy Artifact Evaluation Chairs - Arnd Hartmanns, University of Twente, The Netherlands - Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University, UK Special Track Chair - Masaki Waga, Kyoto University, Japan Program Committee - Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK - Parosh Aziz Abdulla, Uppsala University, Sweden - Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Patricia Bouyer-Decitre, CNRS & ENS Paris-Saclay, France - Franck Cassez, ConsenSys, USA - Pedro R. D'Argenio, National University of Córdoba, Argentina - Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California, USA - Catalin Dima, University Paris-Est Créteil, France - Miriam García Soto, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - Gilles Geeraerts, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium - Taylor T. Johnson, Vanderbilt University, USA - Jan Křetínský, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Engel Lefaucheux, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, Université de Lorraine, France - Jun Liu, University of Waterloo, Canada - Manuel Mazo Jr, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands - Benjamin Monmege, Aix-Marseille Université, France - Dejan Ničković, Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria - Nicola Paoletti, King's College London, UK - Laure Petrucci, University Sorbonne Paris Nord & CNRS, France (chair) - Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA - Krishna S., IIT Bombay, India - Ocan Sankur, CNRS & Rennes University, France - Sadegh Soudjani, Newcastle University, UK - Jeremy Sproston, University of Turin, Italy (chair) - Jiri Srba, Aalborg University, Denmark - B. Srivathsan, Chennai Mathematical Institute, India - Natalie Sznajder, Sorbonne Université & CNRS, France - Patrick Totzke, University of Liverpool, UK - Stavros Tripakis, Northeastern University, USA - Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy - Masaki Waga, Kyoto University, Japan - Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Steering Committee - Rajeev Alur (USA) - Eugene Asarin (France) - Martin Fränzle (chair, Germany) - Thomas A. Henzinger (Austria) - Joost-Pieter Katoen (Germany) - Kim G. Larsen (Denmark) - Oded Maler (founding chair, France) (1957-2018) - Pavithra Prabhakar (USA) - Mariëlle Stoelinga (The Netherlands) - Wang Yi (Sweden)

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IEEE EDGE 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS, Submission Deadline = March 5, 2023
by Nitin Auluck 10 Feb '23

10 Feb '23

IEEE EDGE 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS 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 2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2023 - https://conferences.computer.org/edge/2023/) 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 - https://conferences.computer.org/services/2023/) IEEE EDGE 2023 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2023 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2023 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 · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) – UPDATED! ● March 5, 2023: Easy Chair closes for submissions (e.g., HARD submission deadline) ● April 23, 2023: Acceptance notification ● July 2-8, 2023: SERVICES Congress in Chicago ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2023 GENERAL CHAIRS Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Omer Rana, Cardiff University IEEE EDGE 2023 PROGRAM CHAIRS Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University Nirmit Desai, IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center IEEE EDGE 2023 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada -- 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 Email / ईमेल: nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in | Web / वेब: 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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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Krishna S on Feb. 7 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 07 Feb '23

07 Feb '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Krishna S, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, February 7, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzUzMmptb3…>). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs under Release Acquire -- Part II (Here is a video of the first part of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9QgZmaS9w) Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: This talk is an overview of some recent work on the verification of concurrent programs. Traditionally concurrent programs are interpreted under sequential consistency (SC). Eventhough SC is very intuitive and easy to use, modern multiprocessors do not employ SC for performance reasons, and instead use so called "weak memory models". Some of the well known weak memory models in vogue among modern multiprocessor architectures are Intel x-86, IBM POWER and ARM. The use of weak memory is also prevalent in the C11 model, leading to the release acquire fragment of C11. This talk is on the verification of concurrent programs under the release acquire (RA) semantics. The main focus of the talk will be on non parameterized programs under RA, and I will briefly discuss results in the parameterized setting. In the non parameterized setting, we show that the reachability problem for RA is undecidable even in the case where the input program is finite-state, closing a long standing open problem. What works well for this class is under approximate reachability, in the form of bounded view switching, an analogue of bounded context switching, relevant to RA. In the parameterized setting, the first observation is that the semantics of RA can be simplified, lending to a better complexity for verification. Further, safety verification is PSPACE-complete for the case where the distinguished threads are loop-free, and jumps to NEXPTIME-complete for the setting where an unrestricted distinguished ego thread interacts with the environment threads. This talk is based on papers that appeared in PLDI'19 (joint with Parosh Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Jatin Arora), PODC'22 (joint with Roland Meyer and Adwait Godbole) as well as some unpublished work. Bio: Krishna S is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. Her areas of research are broadly in Automata, Logics, Games and the formal verification of timed and probabilistic systems.

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Highlights 2023 & Highlights Collaborative Research Week 2023
by Supratik Chakraborty 05 Feb '23

05 Feb '23

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS HIGHLIGHTS OF LOGIC, GAMES, AND AUTOMATA 2023 Kassel, Germany, 24 -- 28 July 2023 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HIGHLIGHTS'23 is the eleventh in the series of international conferences "Highlights of Logic, Games and Automata", aiming at integrating the community working in algorithmic model theory, automata theory, databases, games for logic and verification, logic, and verification. Papers from these areas are dispersed across many conferences, which makes them difficult to follow. A visit to the HIGHLIGHTS conference should offer a wide picture of the latest research in the field and a chance to meet everybody in the community, not just those who happen to publish in one particular proceedings volume. There are no publications. HIGHLIGHTS'23 is scheduled from **July 24 to July 28, 2023** at the Campus Center of the **University of Kassel, Germany**. The main conference will be preceded by the Highlights Collaborative Research Week (HCRW), from **July 17 to July 21, 2023** at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Kassel. HIGHLIGHTS'23 key features: * HIGHLIGHTS is a conference without publication, where speakers give short presentations of their best work. * (new) The conference will span five days, including tutorials. * (new) There is an early round of submissions and notifications to help with travel planning. * (new) The *Highlights' Collaborative Research Week* (HCRW) is a new initiative meant to facilitate research collaborations/discussions between participants. HCRW is scheduled from July 17 to July 21, 2023, i.e. the week before HIGHLIGHTS'23 and after ICALP’23 (in Paderborn, Germany). * The *Highlights Extended Stay Support Scheme* (HESSS) is intended to help participants find collaborators and organize visits around HIGHLIGHTS. We encourage you to attend and present your best work, be it already published or not, at HIGHLIGHTS’23. -- SCOPE -- Representative areas include, but are not restricted to: * Algorithmic model theory * Automata theory * Databases * Games for logic and verification * Logic * Verification -- IMPORTANT DATES AND INFORMATION -- * Main conference page: https://highlights-conference.org/2023/ * HCRW page: https://highlights-conference.org/2023/hcrw * HESSS page: https://highlights-conference.org/2023/hesss * Submission page: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/Highlights2023 * Registration page: TBA * **Early submission deadline: February 17** * Early notification: February 28 * **Regular submission deadline: April 25** * Regular notification: May 5 * Early registration: TBA * Highlights' Collaborative Research Weak (HCRW): July 17 - July 21, 2023. * Conference: July 24 - July 28, 2023 (Tutorial day: July 24). -- INVITED TALKS AND TUTORIALS -- TUTORIALS: * Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland Univ and CISPA, Germany) * Édouard Bonnet (ENS Lyon, France) INVITED TALKS: * Udi Boker (Reichman Univ, Israel) * Véronique Bruyère (Univ of Mons, Belgium) * Meena Mahajan (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India) * Sophie Pinchinat (IRISA, France) * Sven Schewe (Univ of Liverpool, UK) -- MODALITIES OF ATTENDANCE -- HIGHLIGHTS’23 is an event that will take place on-site (barring unforeseen circumstances), and the preferred form of participation is in person. Remote attendance via a video stream will also be offered, but with limited possible interactions for these participants. Before coming from far away, please review how your trip and international flights are contributing to climate change. We encourage you to take the train as much as possible, possibly taking the opportunity for visiting colleagues on the way and thus decomposing the travel into smaller pieces. More generally, we encourage you to make the most of your stay. This means extending your journey to the previous and/or following weeks for more scientific activities in Kassel and around. Several initiatives are here to help you in this task: - You can participate in the Highlights' Collaborative Research Week (HCRW, July 17-21) in the week before HIGHLIGHTS, in Kassel. We especially encourage you to come to HCRW if you are planning to attend ICALP’2023, which happens just before HCRW, in Paderborn. - You can attend ICALP’2023 (July 10-14, in Paderborn) - You can attend CAV’2023 (July 17-22, in Paris) - You can use the Highlights Extended Stay Support Scheme HESSS] for finding collaborators and organising visits. -- [EARLY] SUBMISSIONS AND GUIDELINES -- Submissions should take the form of a short abstract describing the content of the presentation and its interest. It should serve as a proposal for a presentation. Hence, submissions should have a single author — the speaker. They can concern any recently published, to be published, or ongoing work of the speaker. We expect you to present your favourite result of the year, so there should be at most one submission per speaker. The abstract should list co-authors, if any. Optionally, an extended abstract of up to two pages may be attached as a PDF file. We encourage both young and senior researchers to present. The early round of submissions is open until **February 17, 2023**. By submitting before this deadline, you will profit from an early notification by February 28, 2023 which may help you in organising your journey. The regular submission deadline is **April 25, 2023**, with a notification by May 5, 2023 Submissions will not lead to publications. There are no formal proceedings and we encourage the presentation of work published or presented elsewhere. The talk (which is short, around 10 minutes) can be doubled with a poster. In this case, it has to be sent more than one week before the event, and will be printed by the organising team. **Submission page:** https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/Highlights2023 -- HIGHLIGHTS' COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH WEEK (HCRW) -- HIGHLIGHTS’23 will be organising an extra week, the *Highlights' Collaborative Research Week* (HCRW), **from July 17 to July 21**, at the University of Kassel. Participants to HIGHLIGHTS can register for this week, and are then free to organise any scientific activity. It is up to you to decide what this week should be. Possibilities can be to - meet someone in particular, - organise or attend a seminar/workshop/reading group, - gather for solving open problems. HIGHLIGHTS organising team is offering the opportunity, the working space and support at the university, and some web-tools for the scientific organisation. We encourage participants to propose activities in advance. Please contact the program chair (Supratik Chakraborty) and the organisation chair (Stefan Göller) to communicate your proposals. * HCRW webpage: https://highlights-conference.org/2023/hcrw * To propose activities: Contact Supratik Chakraborty and Stefan Göller * Registration for HCRW will happen along with HIGHLIGHTS. -- HIGHLIGHTS EXTENDED STAY SUPPORT SCHEME (HESSS) -- The HESSS is an incentive for collaborations between participants of the conference and researchers working in research units reachable by train from the conference location. The objective is to foster interactions with low carbon footprint. The mechanism is as follows: * Research units wanting to participate in the scheme are/will be listed on the webpage: https://highlights-conference.org/2023/hcrw. These units are willing to fund collaborations between HIGHLIGHTS participants and their members. * The pair of a HIGHLIGHTS participant and a member of a listed research unit submit a proposal, which takes the form of an email containing names, period of collaboration, and a sentence describing the planned activity. It has to be sent to the HESSS contact person of the research unit. * The decision of acceptance is up to the research unit. In particular, it may be subject to scientific scope, number or requests, or e.g., favouring distant participants. * The only strict rule is that the visit should be around HIGHLIGHTS, and no airplane should be taken by the visitor to travel from HIGHLIGHTS to the visit location. * Research units interested in participating in the program should contact Thomas Colcombet. -- COMMITTEES -- PROGRAM COMMITTEE * S. Akshay (India) * Suguman Bansal (USA) * Nathalie Bertrand (France) * Supratik Chakraborty (India) (Chair) * Krishnendu Chatterjee (Austria) * Javier Esparza (Germany) * Sandra Kiefer (Germany) * Antonina Kolokolova (Canada) * Orna Kupferman (Israel) * Annabelle McIver (Australia) * Madhusudan Parthasarathy (USA) * Joanna Ochremiak (France) * Daniela Petrisan (France) * Michał Pilipczuk (Poland) * Nir Piterman (Sweden) * Jean-François Raskin (Belgium) ORGANISING COMMITTEE * Stefan Göller (chair) * Alina Kappes * Klaus Wich * Matthias Wolf * Katja Wuchterl SAFETOC COUNSELOR * Sylke Ernst STEERING COMMITTEE * León Bohn (webmaster) * Antonio Casares (publicity chair) * Thomas Colcombet (chair) * Sławek Lasota * Luc Segoufin * Sophie Tison

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IITB CSE Research Symposium: call for student participation
by Uday P. Khedker 01 Feb '23

01 Feb '23

Please circulate this email among your students and encourage them to participate in this research symposium. The goal is to expose the students the research being done in CS at IITB. Thanks and regards, Uday Khedker. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings from the Dept of CSE, IITB. The Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) is pleased to announce its upcoming research symposium. The two-day event will take place on March 25-26, 2023, and will feature cutting-edge research conducted by CSE faculty and students. In addition, the symposium will include invited talks by leading experts from three tracks: computer systems, artificial intelligence/machine learning, and theoretical computer science. There will also be some informal interactive sessions with CSE faculty and research scholars. More information about the event, including a detailed schedule and speaker lineup, can be found on the official website at https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/crs2023. We invite *undergraduate students in their pre-final and final years, as well as postgraduate students *(master’s students) from CS and allied domains, to apply for participation in the symposium. Candidates from underrepresented, underprivileged, or disadvantaged groups/communities are especially encouraged to apply. Selected participants will be provided with accommodation on the IITB campus during the event. They may also be provided with limited travel support. To register for the symposium, please fill out the registration form <https://forms.gle/yEeHd2RSD45JrZDj8>by Feb 04, 2023. Kindly circulate the email to the prospective students. Best regards, Biswabandan Panda, Abir De and Rohit Gurjar. Organizing committee, IIT Bombay.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Krishna S on Feb. 7 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 30 Jan '23

30 Jan '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Krishna S, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, February 7, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NzUzMmptb3…>). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs under Release Acquire -- Part II (Here is a video of the first part of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac9QgZmaS9w) Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: This talk is an overview of some recent work on the verification of concurrent programs. Traditionally concurrent programs are interpreted under sequential consistency (SC). Eventhough SC is very intuitive and easy to use, modern multiprocessors do not employ SC for performance reasons, and instead use so called "weak memory models". Some of the well known weak memory models in vogue among modern multiprocessor architectures are Intel x-86, IBM POWER and ARM. The use of weak memory is also prevalent in the C11 model, leading to the release acquire fragment of C11. This talk is on the verification of concurrent programs under the release acquire (RA) semantics. The main focus of the talk will be on non parameterized programs under RA, and I will briefly discuss results in the parameterized setting. In the non parameterized setting, we show that the reachability problem for RA is undecidable even in the case where the input program is finite-state, closing a long standing open problem. What works well for this class is under approximate reachability, in the form of bounded view switching, an analogue of bounded context switching, relevant to RA. In the parameterized setting, the first observation is that the semantics of RA can be simplified, lending to a better complexity for verification. Further, safety verification is PSPACE-complete for the case where the distinguished threads are loop-free, and jumps to NEXPTIME-complete for the setting where an unrestricted distinguished ego thread interacts with the environment threads. This talk is based on papers that appeared in PLDI'19 (joint with Parosh Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Jatin Arora), PODC'22 (joint with Roland Meyer and Adwait Godbole) as well as some unpublished work. Bio: Krishna S is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. Her areas of research are broadly in Automata, Logics, Games and the formal verification of timed and probabilistic systems.

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CFP IEEE Edge 2023, submission deadline = March 5, 2023.
by Nitin Auluck 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

IEEE EDGE 2023 - CALL FOR PAPERS 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 2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (IEEE EDGE 2023 - https://conferences.computer.org/edge/2023/) 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 - https://conferences.computer.org/services/2023/) IEEE EDGE 2023 will feature a comprehensive high-quality technical program including research track, tutorial and demonstration. IEEE EDGE 2023 will also include an attractive industry program aimed at practitioners, with keynotes and panels from prominent research, industry leaders, and technological exhibits. IEEE EDGE 2023 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 · Signal Processing in Edge Computing · Edge Access Networks & Systems · Services for Edge Computing · CPU/GPU and Hardware for Edge Computing · AI Enabled Edge Computing · Edge Centric Convergence of IoT & Cloud Computing · Collaborative Edge & Cloud Computing · Storage and Caching at the Edge · QoS & QoE at the Edge · Artificial Intelligence and ML at the Edge · Edge Computing for Vehicular System & Network · Edge Computing for 5G/6G Network & Systems IMPORTANT DATES (ANYWHERE ON EARTH) – UPDATED! ● March 5, 2023: Easy Chair closes for submissions (e.g., HARD submission deadline) ● April 23, 2023: Acceptance notification ● July 2-8, 2023: SERVICES Congress in Chicago ORGANISING TEAM IEEE EDGE 2023 GENERAL CHAIRS Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University Omer Rana, Cardiff University IEEE EDGE 2023 PROGRAM CHAIRS Flavia Delicato, Fluminense Federal University Nirmit Desai, IBM Research, TJ Watson Research Center IEEE EDGE 2023 PUBLICITY CHAIRS Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, Italy Gautam Srivastava, Brandon University, Canada -- 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 Email / ईमेल: nitin(a)iitrpr.ac.in Web / वेब: 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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Call for special sessions - NUMTA2023 (hybrid), Jun 2023 - Italy
by gopal 21 Jan '23

21 Jan '23

[https://9pouq.img.ag.d.sendibm3.com/im/5569782/4e138089c338ad985fc321a5306a…] 4th International Conference and Summer School NUMTA-2023 "Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms" June 14-20, 2023 - ITALY The 4th International Conference and Summer School "Numerical Computations: Theory and Algorithms NUMTA-2023<https://9pouq.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/6T6N7XLyeza5Q0oO-Ap6clWIkL6gHa5OY…>" will be held (in hybrid format) from 14 to 20 June 2023 in Calabria, Italy, at the all-inclusive resort “Tui Magic Life Calabria<https://9pouq.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/93kMl5-mJR93Vrfu991ObAiABtsCv6-p2…>” on the Tyrrhenian coast and close to the Lamezia Terme international airport<https://9pouq.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/jiSfZHjow4mMlcoQNRwoIx03C6aUQ3uRn…>. Proposals for special sessions are very welcome (deadline: 31 January 2023). * Confirmed plenary lecturers<https://9pouq.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/Yd68uFqmN8CDGpY9scwVNegFLpIdKMDWB…>: Luigi Brugnano (Italy), Lou D'Alotto (USA), Renato De Leone (Italy), Kalyanmoy Deb (USA), Francesca Mazzia (Italy), Panos Pardalos (USA), Witold Pedrycz (Canada), Yaroslav Sergeyev (Italy). The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer LNCS series (submission will open soon). Special issues of highly cited international journals will also be organized. A registration fee for in-person or virtual (zoom) participation in NUMTA-2023 (early bird payment by 16 April 2023) will be required (registration will open soon). Information is continuously updated on the conference website https://www.numta.org<https://9pouq.r.ag.d.sendibm3.com/mk/cl/f/CfktJ7pk3myYUqW7f5O46PuVL8Z8Gj-UZ…> where details of the three previous editions (2019, 2016 and 2013) of this conference are available. We look forward to meeting you this year in Calabria, Italy! Sincerely, Gopal T V Member - Programme Committee 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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ICECCS 2023 (Toulouse, France): last call for papers
by Étienne André 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

ICECCS 2023 - Call for Papers *************************************************************************************** 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) 12 - 16 June 2023, Toulouse, France https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ *************************************************************************************** NEW! paper submission deadline extended to 16th January 2023. The 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. Over the past years, we have seen a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. List of Topics -------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and tools. Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: + Requirements analysis and specification + Verification and validation + Security and privacy of complex systems + Model-driven development + Reverse engineering and refactoring + Software Architecture + Human Machine Interaction + Big data management + Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks + SAT/SMT solvers for software analysis and testing + Agile methods + Safety-critical and fault-tolerant architectures + Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems + Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) + Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Submission and Publication -------------------------- Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by the program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in the industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by the program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 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 have been published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of the IEEE Computer Society. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE CPS format. Full papers should not exceed 9 pages + 1 page for bibliography, and short papers should not exceed 5 pages + 1 page for bibliography, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE CPS guidelines. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS 2023 portal, hosted by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2023 Important Dates --------------- + Abstract Submissions Due: 08 December, 2022 ==> EXTENDED to 16th January 2023 + Full Paper Submissions Due: 15 December, 2022 ==> EXTENDED to 16th January 2023 + Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 March, 2023 + Camera-ready Due: 15 April, 2023 + Conference Dates: 12-16 June 2023 General Chair ------------- Dominique Méry, LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Program Committee ----------------- see https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ ICECCS 2023 is referenced on https://www.conferences-computer.science/

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Umang Mathur on Jan 3 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 02 Jan '23

02 Jan '23

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Umang Mathur, an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, January 3, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWVtZzZuZn…> ). 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: Dynamic Data Race Prediction: Fundamentals and Advance Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Concurrent programs are notoriously hard to write correctly, as scheduling nondeterminism introduces subtle errors that are both hard to detect and to reproduce. Data races are arguably the most insidious amongst concurrency bugs and extensive research efforts have been dedicated to effectively detect them. A data race occurs when memory-conflicting actions are executed concurrently. Consequently, considerable effort has been made towards developing efficient techniques for race detection. The preferred approach to detect data races is through dynamic analysis, where one observes an execution of a concurrent program and checks for the presence of data races in the execution observed. Traditional dynamic race detectors rely on Lamport's happens-before (HB) partial order, which can be conservative and are often unable to discover simple data races, even after executing the program several times. Dynamic data race prediction aims to expose data races, that can be otherwise missed by traditional dynamic race detectors (such as those based on HB), by inferring data races in alternate executions of the underlying program, without re-executing it. In this talk, I will talk about the fundamentals of and recent algorithmic advances in data race prediction. Bio: Umang Mathur is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2021 and was an NTT Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley. His research interests lie in the use of formal methods and logic for answering design, analysis and implementation questions in programming languages, software engineering and systems. He is a recipient of a Google Research Award (2022), Google PhD Fellowship (2019), an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE'18, a Best Paper Award at ASPLOS'22 and was invited as a Young Researcher at the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Umang Mathur on Jan 3 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 30 Dec '22

30 Dec '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Umang Mathur, an Assistant Professor in the School of Computing at the National University of Singapore. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, January 3, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWVtZzZuZn…> ). 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: Dynamic Data Race Prediction: Fundamentals and Advance Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Concurrent programs are notoriously hard to write correctly, as scheduling nondeterminism introduces subtle errors that are both hard to detect and to reproduce. Data races are arguably the most insidious amongst concurrency bugs and extensive research efforts have been dedicated to effectively detect them. A data race occurs when memory-conflicting actions are executed concurrently. Consequently, considerable effort has been made towards developing efficient techniques for race detection. The preferred approach to detect data races is through dynamic analysis, where one observes an execution of a concurrent program and checks for the presence of data races in the execution observed. Traditional dynamic race detectors rely on Lamport's happens-before (HB) partial order, which can be conservative and are often unable to discover simple data races, even after executing the program several times. Dynamic data race prediction aims to expose data races, that can be otherwise missed by traditional dynamic race detectors (such as those based on HB), by inferring data races in alternate executions of the underlying program, without re-executing it. In this talk, I will talk about the fundamentals of and recent algorithmic advances in data race prediction. Bio: Umang Mathur is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore. He received his PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2021 and was an NTT Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at Berkeley. His research interests lie in the use of formal methods and logic for answering design, analysis and implementation questions in programming languages, software engineering and systems. He is a recipient of a Google Research Award (2022), Google PhD Fellowship (2019), an ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award at ESEC/FSE'18, a Best Paper Award at ASPLOS'22 and was invited as a Young Researcher at the 8th Heidelberg Laureate Forum.

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Deadline extension : ICECCS 2023 (Toulouse, France)
by Étienne André 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

ICECCS 2023 - Call for Papers *************************************************************************************** 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) 12 - 16 June 2023, Toulouse, France https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ *************************************************************************************** NEW! paper submission deadline extended to 16th January 2023. The 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. Over the past years, we have seen a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. List of Topics -------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and tools. Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: + Requirements analysis and specification + Verification and validation + Security and privacy of complex systems + Model-driven development + Reverse engineering and refactoring + Software Architecture + Human Machine Interaction + Big data management + Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks + SAT/SMT solvers for software analysis and testing + Agile methods + Safety-critical and fault-tolerant architectures + Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems + Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) + Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Submission and Publication -------------------------- Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by the program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in the industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by the program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 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 have been published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of the IEEE Computer Society. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE CPS format. Full papers should not exceed 9 pages + 1 page for bibliography, and short papers should not exceed 5 pages + 1 page for bibliography, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE CPS guidelines. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS 2023 portal, hosted by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2023 Important Dates --------------- + Abstract Submissions Due: 08 December, 2022 ==> EXTENDED to 9th January 2023 + Full Paper Submissions Due: 15 December, 2022 ==> EXTENDED to 16th January 2023 + Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 March, 2023 + Camera-ready Due: 15 April, 2023 + Conference Dates: 12-16 June 2023 General Chair ------------- Dominique Méry, LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Program Committee ----------------- see https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ ICECCS 2023 is referenced on https://www.conferences-computer.science/

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Krishna S on Dec. 6 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 05 Dec '22

05 Dec '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Krishna S, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, December 6, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWU1amtjNG…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs under Release Acquire Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: This is an overview of some recent work on the verification of concurrent programs. Traditionally concurrent programs are interpreted under sequential consistency (SC). Eventhough SC is very intuitive and easy to use, modern multiprocessors do not employ SC for performance reasons, and instead use so called "weak memory models". Some of the well known weak memory models in vogue among modern multiprocessor architectures are Intel x-86, IBM POWER and ARM. The use of weak memory is also prevalent in the C11 model, leading to the release acquire fragment of C11. This talk is on the verification of concurrent programs under the release acquire (RA) semantics. The main focus of the talk will be on non parameterized programs under RA, and I will briefly discuss results in the parameterized setting. In the non parameterized setting, we show that the reachability problem for RA is undecidable even in the case where the input program is finite-state, closing a long standing open problem. What works well for this class is under approximate reachability, in the form of bounded view switching, an analogue of bounded context switching, relevant to RA. In the parameterized setting, the first observation is that the semantics of RA can be simplified, lending to a better complexity for verification. Further, safety verification is PSPACE-complete for the case where the distinguished threads are loop-free, and jumps to NEXPTIME-complete for the setting where an unrestricted distinguished ego thread interacts with the environment threads. This talk is based on papers that appeared in PLDI'19 (joint with Parosh Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Jatin Arora), PODC'22 (joint with Roland Meyer, Adwait Godbole and Soham Chakraborty), and Arxiv'21 (with Roland Meyer and Adwait Godbole). Bio: Krishna S is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. Her areas of research are broadly in Automata, Logics, Games and the formal verification of timed and probabilistic systems.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Krishna S on Dec. 6 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 28 Nov '22

28 Nov '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Krishna S, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, December 6, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWU1amtjNG…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verification of Concurrent Programs under Release Acquire Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: This is an overview of some recent work on the verification of concurrent programs. Traditionally concurrent programs are interpreted under sequential consistency (SC). Eventhough SC is very intuitive and easy to use, modern multiprocessors do not employ SC for performance reasons, and instead use so called "weak memory models". Some of the well known weak memory models in vogue among modern multiprocessor architectures are Intel x-86, IBM POWER and ARM. The use of weak memory is also prevalent in the C11 model, leading to the release acquire fragment of C11. This talk is on the verification of concurrent programs under the release acquire (RA) semantics. The main focus of the talk will be on non parameterized programs under RA, and I will briefly discuss results in the parameterized setting. In the non parameterized setting, we show that the reachability problem for RA is undecidable even in the case where the input program is finite-state, closing a long standing open problem. What works well for this class is under approximate reachability, in the form of bounded view switching, an analogue of bounded context switching, relevant to RA. In the parameterized setting, the first observation is that the semantics of RA can be simplified, lending to a better complexity for verification. Further, safety verification is PSPACE-complete for the case where the distinguished threads are loop-free, and jumps to NEXPTIME-complete for the setting where an unrestricted distinguished ego thread interacts with the environment threads. This talk is based on papers that appeared in PLDI'19 (joint with Parosh Abdulla, Mohamed Faouzi Atig and Jatin Arora), PODC'22 (joint with Roland Meyer and Adwait Godbole) as well as some unpublished work. Bio: Krishna S is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Bombay. Her areas of research are broadly in Automata, Logics, Games and the formal verification of timed and probabilistic systems.

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2nd call for papers: ICECCS 2023 (Toulouse, France)
by Étienne André 24 Nov '22

24 Nov '22

ICECCS 2023 - Call for Papers *************************************************************************************** 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) 12 - 16 June 2023, Toulouse, France https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ *************************************************************************************** The 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. Over the past years, we have seen a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. List of Topics -------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and tools. Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: + Requirements analysis and specification + Verification and validation + Security and privacy of complex systems + Model-driven development + Reverse engineering and refactoring + Software Architecture + Human Machine Interaction + Big data management + Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks + SAT/SMT solvers for software analysis and testing + Agile methods + Safety-critical and fault-tolerant architectures + Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems + Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) + Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Submission and Publication -------------------------- Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by the program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in the industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by the program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 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 have been published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of the IEEE Computer Society. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE CPS format. Full papers should not exceed 9 pages + 1 page for bibliography, and short papers should not exceed 5 pages + 1 page for bibliography, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE CPS guidelines. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS 2023 portal, hosted by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2023 Important Dates --------------- + Abstract Submissions Due: 08 December, 2022 + Full Paper Submissions Due: 15 December, 2022 + Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 March, 2023 + Camera-ready Due: 15 April, 2023 + Conference Dates: 12-16 June 2023 General Chair ------------- Dominique Méry, LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Program Committee ----------------- see https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ ICECCS 2023 is referenced on https://www.conferences-computer.science/

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7th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Second call for participation
by Kumar Madhukar 12 Nov '22

12 Nov '22

Dear all, The 7th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held (in-person) during 15-17 December 2022, at IIT Madras, co-located with FSTTCS 2022. Please visit the webpage (https://sat-smt.in/index.html) for registration and other details. We are also inviting entries for poster presentations and talks, in the broad area of SAT/SMT, through this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpAxed6T04Y2KSyacDMKpElTZQgVmd9dR… Please submit your entries by Nov. 15th. Note that a print-out of 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 Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi

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7th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Call for participation
by Kumar Madhukar 01 Nov '22

01 Nov '22

Dear all, The 7th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held (in-person) during 15-17 December 2022, at IIT Madras, co-located with FSTTCS 2022 ( https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2022/) You are welcome to register yourself here: https://sat-smt.in/registration.html (the early bird discount closes on Nov. 5th). We are also inviting entries for poster presentations and talks, in the broad area of SAT/SMT, through this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpAxed6T04Y2KSyacDMKpElTZQgVmd9dR… If you are interested in giving a talk or presenting a poster, please submit your entries by Nov. 15th. Note that a print-out of 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 Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shibashis Guha on Nov. 1 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 31 Oct '22

31 Oct '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shibashis Guha, a faculty member at the School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, November 1, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGsxMHR2dT…> ). 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: A Game of Pawns Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We introduce and study pawn games; a class of two-player turn-based zero-sum games in which the control of vertices changes dynamically throughout the game. Pawn games naturally model ongoing decision-making setting in which resources are transferable. Each vertex of a pawn game is owned by a pawn. In each round of the game, the pawns are partitioned between the two players. The player who moves the token from a vertex is the player who controls the pawn that owns the vertex. A pawn game is equipped with a mechanism, which the players apply after each round in order to update the set of pawns that they control. We define several grabbing-based mechanisms in which control of at most one pawn transfers at the end of each round. We study the complexity of solving reachability pawn games, where we parameterize the problem by the mechanism that is being used and by restrictions on pawn ownership of vertices. For the positive news, even though pawn games are exponentially-succinct turn-based games, we identify some natural classes that can be solved in PTIME. For the negative news, we identify some classes for which the problem is EXPTIME-complete. Our EXPTIME-hardness results are based on a class of games which we introduce and call Lock-and-Key games, and which may be of independent interest. This is a joint work with Guy Avni and Pranav Ghorpade. Bio: Shibashis Guha is a faculty member at the School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Before this, he was a postdoc at the Verification Group in Université libre de Bruxelles and at The Hebrew University in the group of Prof. Orna Kupferman. He did his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi, under the supervision of Prof. S. Arun-Kumar. His research interests include reactive synthesis, probabilistic systems, timed automata, behavioural equivalences, formal methods and its intersection with algorithmic game theory.

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7th Indian SAT+SMT School -- Call for posters/talks
by Kumar Madhukar 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Dear all, The 7th edition of the Indian SAT+SMT School will be held during 15-17 December 2022, at IIT Madras, co-located with FSTTCS 2022. This will be an in-person event, for which you may register here: https://sat-smt.in/registration.html We invite entries for poster presentations and talks in the broad area of SAT/SMT. If you are interested, please let us know by submitting this Google form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScpAxed6T04Y2KSyacDMKpElTZQgVmd9dR… The deadline for this is Nov. 15th (anywhere on earth). Note that a print-out of 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 Subodh Sharma, IIT Delhi

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UbiSec 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&20+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 30
by Qin Liu 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

UbiSec 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&20+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 30 Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Final UbiSec 2022 Second Batch Call for Papers (CFPs) with Deadline October 30, 2022 (Final, No further extension will be granted). ============================== UbiSec 2022 ============================== Conferences Pivoting to a Part-Virtual Platform [UbiSec 2022] - Now Taking Place Part-Virtually Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the UbiSec 2022 conference will be a combination of online and offline event. For authors who consider to present their papers online, please pay a half of author registration fees for each paper and show this "Half Registration Fees" information in the "Remarks" field in the registration form; For attendees who will join the conference online, please pay a half of attendee registration fees and show this "Half Registration Fees" information in the "Remarks" field in the registration form. For questions, contact [UbiSec2022 AT googlegroups DOT com]. Final CFPs of The Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2022) Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Organizers: Guangzhou University, China Jishou University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2022/ ====================================================================== 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. Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK Title: Next Generation Security for Cyber Physical Systems https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-hill (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Tien N. Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Intelligent Software Vulnerability Detection https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tien.n.nguyen/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Title: Security-Aware Task Execution across the Edge-Cloud Continuum https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/118157-rana-omer (4) Keynote 4: Prof. Kouichi SAKURAI, Kyushu University, Japan Title: State and Issues of Non-Fungible Token from Technical Point of View https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K000220/english.html (5) Keynote 5: Prof. Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Title: Achieving Scalability and Interpretability Simultaneously in Detecting Multi-granularity Vulnerabilities http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/zoudeqing/zh_CN/index.htm ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Invited Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Prof. Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Title: New Insights on Cryptographic Hierarchical Access Control: Models, Schemes, and Analysis https://docenti.unisa.it/026260/en/home (2) Prof. Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Title: Optimize Industrial IoT HVAC by using Machine Learning https://liu.se/en/employee/scofo47, https://sites.google.com/site/scofo47 (3) Prof. Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Title: Online user analysis and learning optimization http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/jiangwenjun (4) Prof. Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Operational Technology (OT) and Supply Chain Cyber Security: The Storm Approaching Us https://itee.uq.edu.au/profile/1409/ryan-ko (5) Prof. Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Title: Secure Search in Cloud Computing and Emerging Applications https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ (6) Prof. Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Title: Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Drones http://www.sabumthampi.in (7) Prof. Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Title: Distributed Mobile Computation Offloading and Edge Intelligence https://cist.bnu.edu.cn/xygk/szdw/zgj/104104.html (8) Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Title: Mutual Authentication with Multi-factor and Hybrid Approach to Intrusion Detection in IoT-Fog-Cloud Environment https://lrg.ufsc.br/westphal/ (9) Prof. Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Title: Trustworthiness of anomaly detection for IIoT http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/yw433/ (10) Prof. Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Title: Blockchain-enabled Cloud Security: Frameworks and Solutions http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/xuyang ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section You are welcome to attend 2+ Panel Discussions offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 20+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication *: (1) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.559) Special Section on Blockchain and Security (Pending). (2) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.715) Special Issue on Security and Privacy-preserving Solutions on Remote Sensing Data of Smart Cities https://4d8xuv2577wggnmowfwzehpo-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2023. (3) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things and Mobile Crowdsensing https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/SP_EFC Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2023. (4) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Fog/Edge Computing based Smart Sensing System http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/FCSCS Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (5) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/Cyber_Situational_… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (6) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/STPNCE Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (7) Connection Science (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.972) https://www.tandfonline.com/ccos20 Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (8) Computers, Materials & Continua (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.86) https://techscience.com/cmc/special_detail/human-centric_edge Special Issue on AI Powered Human-centric Computing with Cloud and Edge Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2023. (9) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Cryptography and Security Protocol in Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/CSPIOT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (10) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.838) Special Issue on Computational Methods for Next Generation Wireless and IoT Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Generation_Wireless_IoT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (11) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Human-Machine Interface for Healthcare Diagnostics and Bioengineering Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/advanced_signal_process… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. (12) Information Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 8.233) Special Issue on Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-sciences/about/call-for-p… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2022. (13) ISA Transactions (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.468) Special Issue on Security and Privacy of AI-based Automation Systems http://ubisecurity.org/2022/share/CFP%20-%20ISA%20Transactions%20SI%20-%20S… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2022. (14) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.690) Special Issue on Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/cyber_industrial_co… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2022. (15) IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications (EI Indexed) Special Issue on IoT-based Secure Health Monitoring and Tracking through Estimated Computing https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/23983396/Speci… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2023. (16) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcse Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (17) Cryptography (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Cloud/Fog and Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/Privacy_Preserving… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2023. (18) ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT) (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/dlt/pdf/DLT-SI-Recent-Adv… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022. (19) Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People Special Issue on Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/cybersecurity-highe… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2023. (20) Acta Informatica Pragensia Special Issue on Deep Learning Blockchain-enabled Technology for Improved Healthcare Industrial Systems https://aip.vse.cz/corproof.php?tartkey=aip-000000-0305&fbclid=IwAR1veJzaae… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2022, Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022! Zhangjiajie is an emerging tourist destination famous for its unique natural scenery and abundant tourism resources. It is located in the northwest of Hunan province, about 400 kilometers away from Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, covering a total area of 9,516 square kilometers, of which 76% are mountainous area. Out of its total population of 1.52 million, almost 77% belong to ethnic minority groups, including Tujia, Bai and Miao nationalities. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park was established by the State Council in 1982 as the first National Forest Park of China. Wulingyuan in Zhangjiajie was listed into the World Natural Heritage Catalogue by the UNESCO in 1992 and appraised as a national AAAAA scenic area. Zhangjiajie was awarded the title of "World Geological Park" in 2004. The amazing landscape here had been a source of creation of the CGI artist in the Avatar movie, and since the movie was released and achieved a great success, many tourists keeping coming to Zhangjiajie admiring this natural beauty. The Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2022) 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 2022 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the second 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 2022 follows the UbiSec 2021 conference 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 2022 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 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 30, 2022 (Second Batch, No further extension will be granted) Author Notification: November 30, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 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 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 Local Organizing Chair Jianfeng Li, Jishou University, China General Chairs Hanpin Wang, Guangzhou University, China Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE/Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Vice Chairs (1) Cyberspace Security Track Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Jie Hu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Saed Alrabaee, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (2) Cyberspace Privacy Track Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Md Tariqul Islam, Syracuse University, USA Saad Khan, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (3) Cyberspace Anonymity Track Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University & UIC, China A. S. M. Kayes, La Trobe University, Australia Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Mamoun Alazab, Charles Darwin University, Australia Hudan Studiawan, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haroon Elahi, Umea University, Sweden Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Workshop Chairs Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Shuhong Chen, Guangzhou University, China Publication Chairs Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China Fang Qi, Central South University, China Registration Chairs Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Pin Liu, Central South University, China Pengfei Yin, Jishou University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Ziwei Xiao, Foshan University, China Jianguo Jiang, 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 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/2022/ Archived Conference Proceedings: (1) UbiSec 2021 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 (2) SpaCCS 2020 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-68851-6 SpaCCS 2020 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-68884-4 (3) SpaCCS 2019 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-24907-6 SpaCCS 2019 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-24900-7 (4) SpaCCS 2018 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05345-1 (5) SpaCCS 2017 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72389-1 SpaCCS 2017 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72395-2 (6) SpaCCS 2016 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-49148-6 SpaCCS 2016 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-49145-5 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2022 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2022 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2022 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 Tel/Fax: +86-20-39366920, 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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TrustData 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&20+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 30
by Qin Liu 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

************************************************************************************************** TrustData 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&20+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 30 We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this TrustData 2022 CFP. We appreciate your great help if you forward this TrustData 2022 CFP to your colleages and friends. ************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the 13th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2022) Venue & Dates: Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Conference Website: http://ubisecurity.org/TrustData/2022/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing calls for innovative ideas to retrieve, filter, and integrate data from a large number of diverse data sources. Big Data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose volume/velocity/variability is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to manage and process the data within a tolerable period of time. More importantly, Big Data has to be of high value, and should be protected in an efficient way. Since Big Data involves a huge amount of data that is of high-dimensionality and inter-linkage, existing trust, security, and privacy measures for traditional databases and infrastructures cannot satisfy its requirements. Novel technologies for protecting Big Data are attracting researchers and practitioners with more and more attention. Scope and Interests TrustData 2022 is a part of UbiSec 2022 (http://ubisecurity.org/2022/) the Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Trust Track (1) Trust semantics, metrics, and models for Big Data (2) Trust management and evaluation for Big Data (3) Trusted systems, software, and applications for Big Data (4) Trusted platform implementation technologies for Big Data (5) Information quality/trustworthiness for Big Data (6) Provenance of content for Big Data (7) Trustworthiness of ratings/recommender systems for Big Data Security Track (1) Security model and architecture for Big Data (2) Data mining security for Big Data (3) Software and system security for Big Data (4) Intrusion detection for Gigabit Networks (5) Cryptography and Big Data (6) Visualizing large scale security data (7) Threat detection using Big Data analytics (8) Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security (9) Data protection, integrity standards and policies (10) Security and legislative impacts for Big Data (11) Managing user access for Big Data (12) Secure quantum communications Privacy Track (1) Privacy in Big Data applications and services (2) Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering (3) Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation (4) Privacy in parallel and distributed computation (5) Privacy in Big Data storage management (6) Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms (7) Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics (8) Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization (9) Big Data privacy policies and standards Submission and Publication Information The accepted papers from this workshop will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) . Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trustdata2022) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. 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 (https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. 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. All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference. Authors (at least one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: October 30, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 30, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 General Chairs Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Arun Kumar Sangaiah, VIT University, India Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Program Chairs Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian, Australia Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center/Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Christian Callegari, The University of Pisa, Italy Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore John A. Clark University of York, UK Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yucong Duan, Hainan University, China Sheikh M. Habib, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics, Greece Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xin Liao, Hunan University, China Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, USA Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria Chao Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Chang-ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yuanyuan Sun, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, USA Mingzhong Wang, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hejun Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Peiyin Xiong, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Dengfeng Xiao, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Weiwei Chen, Hunan University, China Bo Ou, Hunan University, China Webmaster Ziyi Tang, Hunan University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning TrustData 2022 to: Prof. Qin Liu: gracelq AT 126 DOT com Prof. Qin Liu's Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ ====================================================================== 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. Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK Title: Next Generation Security for Cyber Physical Systems https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-hill (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Tien N. Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Intelligent Software Vulnerability Detection https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tien.n.nguyen/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Title: Security-Aware Task Execution across the Edge-Cloud Continuum https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/118157-rana-omer (4) Keynote 4: Prof. Kouichi SAKURAI, Kyushu University, Japan Title: State and Issues of Non-Fungible Token from Technical Point of View https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K000220/english.html (5) Keynote 5: Prof. Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Title: Achieving Scalability and Interpretability Simultaneously in Detecting Multi-granularity Vulnerabilities http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/zoudeqing/zh_CN/index.htm ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Invited Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Prof. Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Title: New Insights on Cryptographic Hierarchical Access Control: Models, Schemes, and Analysis https://docenti.unisa.it/026260/en/home (2) Prof. Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Title: Optimize Industrial IoT HVAC by using Machine Learning https://liu.se/en/employee/scofo47, https://sites.google.com/site/scofo47 (3) Prof. Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Title: Online user analysis and learning optimization http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/jiangwenjun (4) Prof. Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Operational Technology (OT) and Supply Chain Cyber Security: The Storm Approaching Us https://itee.uq.edu.au/profile/1409/ryan-ko (5) Prof. Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Title: Secure Search in Cloud Computing and Emerging Applications https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ (6) Prof. Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Title: Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Drones http://www.sabumthampi.in (7) Prof. Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Title: Distributed Mobile Computation Offloading and Edge Intelligence https://cist.bnu.edu.cn/xygk/szdw/zgj/104104.html (8) Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Title: Mutual Authentication with Multi-factor and Hybrid Approach to Intrusion Detection in IoT-Fog-Cloud Environment https://lrg.ufsc.br/westphal/ (9) Prof. Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Title: Trustworthiness of anomaly detection for IIoT http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/yw433/ (10) Prof. Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Title: Blockchain-enabled Cloud Security: Frameworks and Solutions http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/xuyang ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section You are welcome to attend 2+ Panel Discussions offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 15+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication*: (1) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.559) Special Section on Blockchain and Security (Pending). (2) Information Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 6.795) Special Issue on Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence (Pending). (3) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Fog/Edge Computing based Smart Sensing System http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/FCSCS Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (4) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/Cyber_Situational_… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (5) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/STPNCE Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (6) Connection Science (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.972) https://www.tandfonline.com/ccos20 Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (7) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cryptography and Security Protocol in Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/CSPIOT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (8) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.679) Special Issue on Computational Methods for Next Generation Wireless and IoT Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Generation_Wireless_IoT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (9) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Human-Machine Interface for Healthcare Diagnostics and Bioengineering Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/advanced_signal_process… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. (10) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397) Special Issue on Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/cyber_industrial_co… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2022. (11) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things and Mobile Crowdsensing https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/SP_EFC Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2022 (with possible extension later). (12) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcse Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (13) Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT) (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/dlt/pdf/DLT-SI-Recent-Adv… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022. (14) Acta Informatica Pragensia Special Issue on Deep Learning Blockchain-enabled Technology for Improved Healthcare Industrial Systems https://aip.vse.cz/corproof.php?tartkey=aip-000000-0305&fbclid=IwAR1veJzaae… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== -- 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 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&20+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 30
by Qin Liu 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Final UbiSec 2022 Second Batch Call for Papers (CFPs) with Deadline October 30, 2022 (Final, No further extension will be granted). ============================== UbiSec 2022 ============================== Conferences Pivoting to a Part-Virtual Platform [UbiSec 2022] - Now Taking Place Part-Virtually Due to the current COVID-19 situation, the UbiSec 2022 conference will be a combination of online and offline event. For authors who consider to present their papers online, please pay a half of author registration fees for each paper and show this "Half Registration Fees" information in the "Remarks" field in the registration form; For attendees who will join the conference online, please pay a half of attendee registration fees and show this "Half Registration Fees" information in the "Remarks" field in the registration form. For questions, contact [UbiSec2022 AT googlegroups DOT com]. Final Call for Papers (CFPs) of The Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2022) Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Organizers: Guangzhou University, China Jishou University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2022/ ====================================================================== 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. Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK Title: Next Generation Security for Cyber Physical Systems https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-hill (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Tien N. Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Intelligent Software Vulnerability Detection https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tien.n.nguyen/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Title: Security-Aware Task Execution across the Edge-Cloud Continuum https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/118157-rana-omer (4) Keynote 4: Prof. Kouichi SAKURAI, Kyushu University, Japan Title: State and Issues of Non-Fungible Token from Technical Point of View https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K000220/english.html (5) Keynote 5: Prof. Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Title: Achieving Scalability and Interpretability Simultaneously in Detecting Multi-granularity Vulnerabilities http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/zoudeqing/zh_CN/index.htm ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Invited Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Prof. Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Title: New Insights on Cryptographic Hierarchical Access Control: Models, Schemes, and Analysis https://docenti.unisa.it/026260/en/home (2) Prof. Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Title: Optimize Industrial IoT HVAC by using Machine Learning https://liu.se/en/employee/scofo47, https://sites.google.com/site/scofo47 (3) Prof. Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Title: Online user analysis and learning optimization http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/jiangwenjun (4) Prof. Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Operational Technology (OT) and Supply Chain Cyber Security: The Storm Approaching Us https://itee.uq.edu.au/profile/1409/ryan-ko (5) Prof. Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Title: Secure Search in Cloud Computing and Emerging Applications https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ (6) Prof. Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Title: Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Drones http://www.sabumthampi.in (7) Prof. Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Title: Distributed Mobile Computation Offloading and Edge Intelligence https://cist.bnu.edu.cn/xygk/szdw/zgj/104104.html (8) Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Title: Mutual Authentication with Multi-factor and Hybrid Approach to Intrusion Detection in IoT-Fog-Cloud Environment https://lrg.ufsc.br/westphal/ (9) Prof. Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Title: Trustworthiness of anomaly detection for IIoT http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/yw433/ (10) Prof. Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Title: Blockchain-enabled Cloud Security: Frameworks and Solutions http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/xuyang ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section You are welcome to attend 2+ Panel Discussions offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 20+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication *: (1) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.559) Special Section on Blockchain and Security (Pending). (2) IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 4.715) Special Issue on Security and Privacy-preserving Solutions on Remote Sensing Data of Smart Cities https://4d8xuv2577wggnmowfwzehpo-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2023. (3) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things and Mobile Crowdsensing https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/SP_EFC Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2023. (4) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Fog/Edge Computing based Smart Sensing System http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/FCSCS Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (5) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/Cyber_Situational_… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (6) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/STPNCE Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (7) Connection Science (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.972) https://www.tandfonline.com/ccos20 Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (8) Computers, Materials & Continua (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.86) https://techscience.com/cmc/special_detail/human-centric_edge Special Issue on AI Powered Human-centric Computing with Cloud and Edge Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 March 2023. (9) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Cryptography and Security Protocol in Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/CSPIOT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (10) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.838) Special Issue on Computational Methods for Next Generation Wireless and IoT Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Generation_Wireless_IoT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (11) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.847) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Human-Machine Interface for Healthcare Diagnostics and Bioengineering Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/advanced_signal_process… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. (12) Information Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 8.233) Special Issue on Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/information-sciences/about/call-for-p… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 December 2022. (13) ISA Transactions (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 5.468) Special Issue on Security and Privacy of AI-based Automation Systems http://ubisecurity.org/2022/share/CFP%20-%20ISA%20Transactions%20SI%20-%20S… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2022. (14) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.690) Special Issue on Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/cyber_industrial_co… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2022. (15) IET Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory & Applications (EI Indexed) Special Issue on IoT-based Secure Health Monitoring and Tracking through Estimated Computing https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/pb-assets/assets/23983396/Speci… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2023. (16) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcse Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (17) Cryptography (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Privacy-Preserving Techniques in Cloud/Fog and Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cryptography/special_issues/Privacy_Preserving… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 January 2023. (18) ACM Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (ACM DLT) (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/dlt/pdf/DLT-SI-Recent-Adv… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022. (19) Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People Special Issue on Organizational Cybersecurity Journal: Practice, Process and People https://www.emeraldgrouppublishing.com/calls-for-papers/cybersecurity-highe… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 March 2023. (20) Acta Informatica Pragensia Special Issue on Deep Learning Blockchain-enabled Technology for Improved Healthcare Industrial Systems https://aip.vse.cz/corproof.php?tartkey=aip-000000-0305&fbclid=IwAR1veJzaae… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2022, Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022! Zhangjiajie is an emerging tourist destination famous for its unique natural scenery and abundant tourism resources. It is located in the northwest of Hunan province, about 400 kilometers away from Changsha, the capital of Hunan province, covering a total area of 9,516 square kilometers, of which 76% are mountainous area. Out of its total population of 1.52 million, almost 77% belong to ethnic minority groups, including Tujia, Bai and Miao nationalities. Zhangjiajie National Forest Park was established by the State Council in 1982 as the first National Forest Park of China. Wulingyuan in Zhangjiajie was listed into the World Natural Heritage Catalogue by the UNESCO in 1992 and appraised as a national AAAAA scenic area. Zhangjiajie was awarded the title of "World Geological Park" in 2004. The amazing landscape here had been a source of creation of the CGI artist in the Avatar movie, and since the movie was released and achieved a great success, many tourists keeping coming to Zhangjiajie admiring this natural beauty. The Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2022) 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 2022 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the second 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 2022 follows the UbiSec 2021 conference 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 2022 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 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 30, 2022 (Second Batch, No further extension will be granted) Author Notification: November 30, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 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 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 Local Organizing Chair Jianfeng Li, Jishou University, China General Chairs Hanpin Wang, Guangzhou University, China Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE/Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Program Vice Chairs (1) Cyberspace Security Track Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Jie Hu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Saed Alrabaee, United Arab Emirates University, UAE Charalambos (Harrys) Konstantinou, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia (2) Cyberspace Privacy Track Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Md Tariqul Islam, Syracuse University, USA Saad Khan, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom (3) Cyberspace Anonymity Track Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University & UIC, China A. S. M. Kayes, La Trobe University, Australia Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Mamoun Alazab, Charles Darwin University, Australia Hudan Studiawan, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember, Indonesia Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haroon Elahi, Umea University, Sweden Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Workshop Chairs Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Shuhong Chen, Guangzhou University, China Publication Chairs Tao Peng, Guangzhou University, China Fang Qi, Central South University, China Registration Chairs Xiaofei Xing, Guangzhou University, China Pin Liu, Central South University, China Pengfei Yin, Jishou University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Ziwei Xiao, Foshan University, China Jianguo Jiang, 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 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/2022/ Archived Conference Proceedings: (1) UbiSec 2021 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 (2) SpaCCS 2020 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-68851-6 SpaCCS 2020 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-68884-4 (3) SpaCCS 2019 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-24907-6 SpaCCS 2019 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-24900-7 (4) SpaCCS 2018 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-05345-1 (5) SpaCCS 2017 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72389-1 SpaCCS 2017 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-72395-2 (6) SpaCCS 2016 Conference Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-49148-6 SpaCCS 2016 Workshops Proceedings https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-49145-5 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2022 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2022 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2022 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 Tel/Fax: +86-20-39366920, 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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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Shibashis Guha on Nov. 1 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 26 Oct '22

26 Oct '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Shibashis Guha, a faculty member at the School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, November 1, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MGsxMHR2dT…> ). 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: A Game of Pawns Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We introduce and study pawn games; a class of two-player turn-based zero-sum games in which the control of vertices changes dynamically throughout the game. Pawn games naturally model ongoing decision-making setting in which resources are transferable. Each vertex of a pawn game is owned by a pawn. In each round of the game, the pawns are partitioned between the two players. The player who moves the token from a vertex is the player who controls the pawn that owns the vertex. A pawn game is equipped with a mechanism, which the players apply after each round in order to update the set of pawns that they control. We define several grabbing-based mechanisms in which control of at most one pawn transfers at the end of each round. We study the complexity of solving reachability pawn games, where we parameterize the problem by the mechanism that is being used and by restrictions on pawn ownership of vertices. For the positive news, even though pawn games are exponentially-succinct turn-based games, we identify some natural classes that can be solved in PTIME. For the negative news, we identify some classes for which the problem is EXPTIME-complete. Our EXPTIME-hardness results are based on a class of games which we introduce and call Lock-and-Key games, and which may be of independent interest. This is a joint work with Guy Avni and Pranav Ghorpade. Bio: Shibashis Guha is a faculty member at the School of Technology and Computer Science at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai. Before this, he was a postdoc at the Verification Group in Université libre de Bruxelles and at The Hebrew University in the group of Prof. Orna Kupferman. He did his PhD from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi, under the supervision of Prof. S. Arun-Kumar. His research interests include reactive synthesis, probabilistic systems, timed automata, behavioural equivalences, formal methods and its intersection with algorithmic game theory.

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First Call for Papers ABZ2023 International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods
by Étienne André 24 Oct '22

24 Oct '22

*********************************************************************** First Call for Papers ABZ 2023: International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France. May 30-June 2, 2023 https://abz2023.loria.fr *********************************************************************** ---------------- Important dates ---------------- Workshops/Tutorials Workshop proposal submission: November 01, 2022 Workshop notification: November 15, 2022 Tutorial proposal submission: February 16, 2023 Case Study Track Abstract submission: December 05, 2022 Paper submission: December 18, 2022 Notification: January 28, 2023 Final version: March 06, 2023 Main Track Abstract submission: January 16, 2023 Paper submission: January 23, 2023 (including research/short/industry papers) Notification: March 6, 2023 Final version: March 27, 2023 Doctoral Symposium Paper submission: January 23, 2023 Notification: March 6, 2023 Final version: March 27, 2023 Conference Workshops and Tutorials : May 30, 2023 ABZ 2023 conference: May 31-June 02, 2023 ---------- About ABZ ---------- The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of state-based and machine-based formal methods, like Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. The conference aims for a vital exchange of knowledge and experience among the research communities around different formal methods. The name ABZ goes back to the first conference in London in 2008, where the ASM, B and Z conference series were merged into a joint event. In the following years other formal methods were added, e.g. Alloy in 2010 (Orford, Canada), VDM in 2012 (Pisa, Italy), and TLA + in 2014 (Toulouse, France). After the also successful 2016 conferences in Linz, Austria and 2018 in Southampton, UK, it was decided to name the conference "ABZ: International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods", to stress the openness for further state-based formal methods. We hope to continue many fruitful discussions between representatives of the individual methods in the past, which will bring us closer to the common goal of this research community: the creation of reliable and safe software. ABZ2020 and ABZ2021 were the two first new entitled conferences planned in Ulm but virtually organised. ABZ 2023 will have a main conference track, a case study track, tutorials and workshops. --------------- Main ABZ Track --------------- Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z and other state-based rigour approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and industrial applications. The program spans from theoretical and methodological foundations to practical applications, emphasizing system engineering methods and tools that are distinguished by mathematical rigor and have proved to be industrially viable. The main goal of the conference is to contribute to the integration of accurate state- and machine-based system development methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation, mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems. Although organized to host several formal methods in a single event, editorial control of the joint conference is vested in one integrated program committee. ----------------- Case Study Track ----------------- As successfully practiced since ABZ 2014, the 10th edition of ABZ will again include special sessions dedicated to an industrial case study. We explicitly invite you to also submit contributions to case studies from previous conferences, which substantially extend the solutions presented there in one aspect or another. Possible enhancements could be new proof techniques, more elegant modeling, generation, verification, or validation of executable code, etc. See https://abz2023.loria.fr/case-study for a detailed description of the new case study and links to the previous ones. -------------------------------- Workshop and Tutorial Proposals -------------------------------- Workshops and tutorials will be associated with the main event ABZ. Proposals are solicited in areas related to the conference topics. A workshop proposal should contain the title of the workshop, a short description of the scientific content, the names and brief CVs of the workshop organizers, the intended PC for the workshop, the duration of the workshop, and the expected number of participants. A tutorial proposal should contain the title of the tutorial, a short description of the scientific content, the names and brief CVs of the tutorial presenters and the duration. Please submit your proposals to dominique dot mery at loria.fr. ------------ Submissions ------------ Four kinds of contributions are invited: * Full Research papers: full papers of not more than 16 pages in LNCS format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. * Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations.An extended abstract of not more than 6 pages is expected and will be reviewed. * Application in industry papers: reporting on work or experiences on the application of state based formal methods in industry. An extended abstract of not more than 8 pages is expected and will be reviewed. It is also an interesting option for industrial practitioners who sometimes face too many constraints to prepare a full paper. * Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 16 pages in LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with any of the state based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2023. We also expect a link to a webpage, where the produced models can be downloaded. * Contribution to doctoral symposium:This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their ongoing work and receive valuable feedback from the ABZ community. Please submit a short paper of no more than 4 pages Accepted papers will appear in the Springer LNCS proceedings. The deadlines for the different kinds of contributions see above. ------------------- Organization ------------------- Conference Chairs: Uwe Glässer (CoChair), Simon Fraser University, Canada Dominique Méry (CoChair), Université de Lorraine & LORIA, France Case Study Chair: José Creissac Campos, Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Philippe Palanque, Interactive Critical Systems - IRIT- Univ. Toulouse, France For further questions concerning ABZ 2023, please contact us at dominique dot mery at loria.fr

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TrustData 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&20+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 30
by Qin Liu 13 Oct '22

13 Oct '22

************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this TrustData 2022 CFP. We appreciate your great help if you forward this TrustData 2022 CFP to your colleages and friends. ************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the 13th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2022) Venue & Dates: Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Conference Website: http://ubisecurity.org/TrustData/2022/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing calls for innovative ideas to retrieve, filter, and integrate data from a large number of diverse data sources. Big Data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose volume/velocity/variability is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to manage and process the data within a tolerable period of time. More importantly, Big Data has to be of high value, and should be protected in an efficient way. Since Big Data involves a huge amount of data that is of high-dimensionality and inter-linkage, existing trust, security, and privacy measures for traditional databases and infrastructures cannot satisfy its requirements. Novel technologies for protecting Big Data are attracting researchers and practitioners with more and more attention. Scope and Interests TrustData 2022 is a part of UbiSec 2022 (http://ubisecurity.org/2022/) the Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Trust Track (1) Trust semantics, metrics, and models for Big Data (2) Trust management and evaluation for Big Data (3) Trusted systems, software, and applications for Big Data (4) Trusted platform implementation technologies for Big Data (5) Information quality/trustworthiness for Big Data (6) Provenance of content for Big Data (7) Trustworthiness of ratings/recommender systems for Big Data Security Track (1) Security model and architecture for Big Data (2) Data mining security for Big Data (3) Software and system security for Big Data (4) Intrusion detection for Gigabit Networks (5) Cryptography and Big Data (6) Visualizing large scale security data (7) Threat detection using Big Data analytics (8) Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security (9) Data protection, integrity standards and policies (10) Security and legislative impacts for Big Data (11) Managing user access for Big Data (12) Secure quantum communications Privacy Track (1) Privacy in Big Data applications and services (2) Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering (3) Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation (4) Privacy in parallel and distributed computation (5) Privacy in Big Data storage management (6) Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms (7) Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics (8) Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization (9) Big Data privacy policies and standards Submission and Publication Information The accepted papers from this workshop will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) . Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://easychair.org/conferences/? conf=trustdata2022) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. 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 (https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. 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. All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference. Authors (at least one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: October 30, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 30, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 20, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 General Chairs Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Arun Kumar Sangaiah, VIT University, India Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Program Chairs Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian, Australia Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center/Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Christian Callegari, The University of Pisa, Italy Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore John A. Clark University of York, UK Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yucong Duan, Hainan University, China Sheikh M. Habib, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics, Greece Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xin Liao, Hunan University, China Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, USA Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria Chao Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Chang-ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yuanyuan Sun, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, USA Mingzhong Wang, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hejun Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Peiyin Xiong, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Dengfeng Xiao, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Weiwei Chen, Hunan University, China Bo Ou, Hunan University, China Webmaster Ziyi Tang, Hunan University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning TrustData 2022 to: Prof. Qin Liu: gracelq AT 126 DOT com Prof. Qin Liu's Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ ====================================================================== 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. Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK Title: Next Generation Security for Cyber Physical Systems https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-hill (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Tien N. Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Intelligent Software Vulnerability Detection https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tien.n.nguyen/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Title: Security-Aware Task Execution across the Edge-Cloud Continuum https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/118157-rana-omer (4) Keynote 4: Prof. Kouichi SAKURAI, Kyushu University, Japan Title: State and Issues of Non-Fungible Token from Technical Point of View https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K000220/english.html (5) Keynote 5: Prof. Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Title: Achieving Scalability and Interpretability Simultaneously in Detecting Multi-granularity Vulnerabilities http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/zoudeqing/zh_CN/index.htm ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Invited Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Prof. Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Title: New Insights on Cryptographic Hierarchical Access Control: Models, Schemes, and Analysis https://docenti.unisa.it/026260/en/home (2) Prof. Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Title: Optimize Industrial IoT HVAC by using Machine Learning https://liu.se/en/employee/scofo47, https://sites.google.com/site/scofo47 (3) Prof. Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Title: Online user analysis and learning optimization http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/jiangwenjun (4) Prof. Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Operational Technology (OT) and Supply Chain Cyber Security: The Storm Approaching Us https://itee.uq.edu.au/profile/1409/ryan-ko (5) Prof. Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Title: Secure Search in Cloud Computing and Emerging Applications https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ (6) Prof. Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Title: Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Drones http://www.sabumthampi.in (7) Prof. Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Title: Distributed Mobile Computation Offloading and Edge Intelligence https://cist.bnu.edu.cn/xygk/szdw/zgj/104104.html (8) Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Title: Mutual Authentication with Multi-factor and Hybrid Approach to Intrusion Detection in IoT-Fog-Cloud Environment https://lrg.ufsc.br/westphal/ (9) Prof. Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Title: Trustworthiness of anomaly detection for IIoT http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/yw433/ (10) Prof. Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Title: Blockchain-enabled Cloud Security: Frameworks and Solutions http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/xuyang ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section You are welcome to attend 2+ Panel Discussions offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 15+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication*: (1) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.559) Special Section on Blockchain and Security (Pending). (2) Information Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 6.795) Special Issue on Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence (Pending). (3) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Fog/Edge Computing based Smart Sensing System http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/FCSCS Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (4) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/Cyber_Situational_… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (5) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/STPNCE Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (6) Connection Science (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.972) https://www.tandfonline.com/ccos20 Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (7) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cryptography and Security Protocol in Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/CSPIOT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (8) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.679) Special Issue on Computational Methods for Next Generation Wireless and IoT Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Generation_Wireless_IoT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (9) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Human-Machine Interface for Healthcare Diagnostics and Bioengineering Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/advanced_signal_process… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. (10) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397) Special Issue on Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/cyber_industrial_co… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2022. (11) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things and Mobile Crowdsensing https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/SP_EFC Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2022 (with possible extension later). (12) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcse Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (13) Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT) (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/dlt/pdf/DLT-SI-Recent-Adv… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022. (14) Acta Informatica Pragensia Special Issue on Deep Learning Blockchain-enabled Technology for Improved Healthcare Industrial Systems https://aip.vse.cz/corproof.php?tartkey=aip-000000-0305&fbclid=IwAR1veJzaae… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== -- 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 Mahesh Viswanathan on Oct. 4 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 03 Oct '22

03 Oct '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Mahesh Viswanathan, a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October 4, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmI5c2FkdXNhMGs0YnM…> ). The details of the talk can be found on the 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, Deepak, Madhukar, Rahul, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: On Linear Time Decidability of Differential Privacy for Programs with Unbounded Inputs Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We introduce an automata model for describing interesting classes of differential privacy mechanisms/algorithms that include known mechanisms from the literature. These automata can model algorithms whose inputs can be an unbounded sequence of real-valued query answers. We consider the problem of checking whether there exists a constant $d$ such that the algorithm described by these automata are $d\epsilon$-differentially private for all positive values of the privacy budget parameter $\epsilon$. We show that this problem can be decided in time linear in the automaton's size by identifying a necessary and sufficient condition on the underlying graph of the automaton. This paper's results are the first decidability results known for algorithms with an unbounded number of query answers taking values from the set of reals. This is joint work with Rohit Chadha and Prasad Sistla. Bio: Mahesh Viswanathan is a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the core areas of logic, automata theory, and algorithm design, with applications to the algorithmic verification of systems. Most recently, his research has been focussed on the dynamic analysis of multi-threaded programs, model checking of cyberphysical systems and stochastic systems, and formal analysis of stochastic security protocols and differential privacy.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Mahesh Viswanathan on Oct. 4 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 30 Sep '22

30 Sep '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Mahesh Viswanathan, a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October 4, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NmI5c2FkdXNhMGs0YnM…> ). The details of the talk can be found on the 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, Deepak, Madhukar, Rahul, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: On Linear Time Decidability of Differential Privacy for Programs with Unbounded Inputs Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We introduce an automata model for describing interesting classes of differential privacy mechanisms/algorithms that include known mechanisms from the literature. These automata can model algorithms whose inputs can be an unbounded sequence of real-valued query answers. We consider the problem of checking whether there exists a constant $d$ such that the algorithm described by these automata are $d\epsilon$-differentially private for all positive values of the privacy budget parameter $\epsilon$. We show that this problem can be decided in time linear in the automaton's size by identifying a necessary and sufficient condition on the underlying graph of the automaton. This paper's results are the first decidability results known for algorithms with an unbounded number of query answers taking values from the set of reals. This is joint work with Rohit Chadha and Prasad Sistla. Bio: Mahesh Viswanathan is a faculty member at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests are in the core areas of logic, automata theory, and algorithm design, with applications to the algorithmic verification of systems. Most recently, his research has been focussed on the dynamic analysis of multi-threaded programs, model checking of cyberphysical systems and stochastic systems, and formal analysis of stochastic security protocols and differential privacy.

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Call for papers: ICECCS 2023 (Toulouse, France)
by Étienne André 28 Sep '22

28 Sep '22

ICECCS 2023 - Call for Papers *************************************************************************************** 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) 12 - 16 June 2023, Toulouse, France https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ *************************************************************************************** The 27th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2023) is a well-established event that has been held around the world for over 25 years. Over the past years, we have seen a rapidly rising emphasis on the design, implementation and management of complex computer systems which are present in every aspect of human activities, such as manufacturing, communications, defence, transportation, aerospace, hazardous environments, energy, and healthcare. These complex systems are frequently distributed over heterogeneous networks and process a large amount of data. Complexity arises from many factors, including the dynamic environment and the scenarios these systems operate in, demanding and sometimes conflicting requirements in functionality, efficiency, scalability, security, dependability and adaptability, as well as the wide range of development methodologies, programming languages and implementation details. Performance, real-time behaviour, fault tolerance, security, adaptability, development time and cost, and long life concerns are some of the key issues arising in the development of such systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts from a variety of application domains and software disciplines, to discuss how the disciplines' problems and solution techniques interact within the whole system. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. The scope of the conference includes long-term research issues, near-term requirements and challenges, established complex systems, emerging promising tools, and retrospective and prospective reflections of research and development into complex systems. List of Topics -------------- Authors are invited to submit papers describing original, unpublished research results, case studies and tools. Papers are solicited in all areas related to complex computer-based systems, including the causes of complexity and means of avoiding, controlling, or coping with complexity. Topic areas include, but are not limited to: + Requirements analysis and specification + Verification and validation + Security and privacy of complex systems + Model-driven development + Reverse engineering and refactoring + Software Architecture + Human Machine Inetraction + Big data management + Ubiquitous computing, context awareness, sensor networks + SAT/SMT solvers for software analysis and testing + Agile methods + Safety-critical and fault-tolerant architectures + Adaptive, self-managing and multi-agent systems + Cyber-physical systems and Internet of Things (IoT) + Industrial case studies Different kinds of contributions are sought, including novel research, lessons learned, experience reports, and discussions of practical problems faced by industry and user domains. The ultimate goal is to build a rich and comprehensive conference program that can fit the interests and needs of different classes of attendees: professionals, researchers, managers, and students. A program goal is to organize several sessions that include both academic and industrial papers on a given topic and culminate panels to discuss relationships between industrial and academic research. Submission and Publication -------------------------- Full papers are divided into two categories: Technical Papers and Experience Reports. The papers submitted to both categories will be reviewed by the program committee members, and papers accepted in either category will be published in the conference proceedings. Technical papers should describe original research, and experience reports should present practical projects carried out in the industry, and reflect on the lessons learnt from them. Short paper submissions describe early-stage, ongoing or PhD research. All short papers will be reviewed by the program committee members, and accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings. 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 have been published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS) of the IEEE Computer Society. Submitted manuscripts should be in English and formatted in the style of the double-column IEEE CPS format. Full papers should not exceed 9 pages + 1 page for bibliography, and short papers should not exceed 5 pages + 1 page for bibliography, including figures, references, and appendices. All submissions should be in PDF format. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately without review. Please prepare your manuscripts in accordance with the IEEE CPS guidelines. https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html We invite all prospective authors to submit their manuscripts via the ICECCS 2023 portal, hosted by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceccs2023 Important Dates --------------- + Abstract Submissions Due: 08 December, 2022 + Full Paper Submissions Due: 15 December, 2022 + Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 15 March, 2023 + Camera-ready Due: 15 April, 2023 + Conference Dates: 12-16 June 2023 General Chair ------------- Dominique Méry, LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France Program Committee Co-Chairs --------------------------- Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada Program Committee ----------------- see https://www.irit.fr/iceccs2023/ ICECCS 2023 is referenced on https://www.conferences-computer.science/

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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS : 10th INDIAN CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS
by Sreejith A V 28 Sep '22

28 Sep '22

Dear all, Please find below the final call for papers for ICLA 2023. 10th INDIAN CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS March 3-5, 2023 IIT Indore, India https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/index.html FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS ALI, the Association for Logic in India, announces the tenth edition of its biennial International Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA), to be held at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, from March 3rd to 5th, 2023. ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant role, including mathematicians, philosophers, computer scientists, linguists, and logicians studying the foundations of formal logic. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies on systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and historical research on logic. As in the earlier events in this series, we shall have eminent logicians as invited speakers. Details of the last ICLA (2021) may be found at https://www.isichennai.res.in/~sujata/icla2021/index.html Submission guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and applications. Articles on mathematical and philosophical logic, foundations and philosophy of mathematics and the sciences, set theory, history of logic, Indian systems of logic, use of formal logic in areas of theoretical computer science, formal verification and artificial intelligence, or on the relationship between logic and other branches of knowledge, are welcome. Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. The submission may not exceed 12 pages in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style. All submissions will be in electronic form and submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icla2023. If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results can be included in a clearly marked appendix which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. The submission must be a PDF file. Concurrent submission to journals or to other conferences with proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available at the time of the conference. The conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference. Important dates: Deadline for Submission: 2 October 2022* 9th Ocober 2022* Notification to Authors: 29 November 2022 *6th December 2022* Deadline for camera-ready papers: *16 December 2022* Conference dates: *3rd - 5th March 2023* Program committee: • C. Aiswarya, Chennai Mathematical Institute • Mohua Banerjee (co-chair), IIT Kanpur • Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford • Thomas Colcombet, IRIF • Laure David, City, University of London • Soma Dutta, University of Warmia and Mazury • Deepak D'Souza, IISc Bangalore • John Horty, University of Maryland • Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki • Minghui Ma, Sun Yat-Sen University • Amaldev Manuel, IIT Goa • Luca Motto Ros, University of Turin • Alessandra Palmigiano, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam • M. Praveen, Chennai Mathematical Institute • Prakash Saivasan, IMSc Chennai • H. P. Sankappanavar, SUNY at New Paltz • Manidipa Sanyal, University of Calcutta • A. V. Sreejith (co-chair), IIT Goa • Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw and Linkoping University • Giorgio Venturi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas • Zach Weber, University of Otago Organising committee: • Md. Aquil Khan, IIT Indore • Somnath Dey, IIT Indore • M. Tanveer, IIT Indore • Vijay Kumar Sohani, IIT Indore Contact: Any queries related to the conference may be sent to the following email address: icla2023(a)easychair.org. Thanks, Mohua and Sreejith

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UbiSec 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&10+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 10
by Qin Liu 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Second Batch UbiSec 2022 CFPs with Deadline October 10, 2022 (Extended). ============================== UbiSec 2022 ============================== Second Batch CFPs of The Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2022) Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Organizers: Guangzhou University, China Jishou University, China ====================================================================== Highlights: 5+ Keynote Speeches, 10+ Invited Talks, 16+ Journal Special Issues, and 3 Tracks: Please check the conference website for details: http://ubisecurity.org/2022/ ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 14, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 General Chairs Hanpin Wang, Guangzhou University, China Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE/Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haroon Elahi, Umea University, Sweden Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2022 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2022 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2022 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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TrustData 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&10+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 10
by Qin Liu 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this TrustData 2022 CFP. We appreciate your great help if you forward this TrustData 2022 CFP to your colleages and friends. ************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the 13th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2022) Venue & Dates: Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Conference Website: http://ubisecurity.org/TrustData/2022/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing calls for innovative ideas to retrieve, filter, and integrate data from a large number of diverse data sources. Big Data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose volume/velocity/variability is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to manage and process the data within a tolerable period of time. More importantly, Big Data has to be of high value, and should be protected in an efficient way. Since Big Data involves a huge amount of data that is of high-dimensionality and inter-linkage, existing trust, security, and privacy measures for traditional databases and infrastructures cannot satisfy its requirements. Novel technologies for protecting Big Data are attracting researchers and practitioners with more and more attention. Scope and Interests TrustData 2022 is a part of UbiSec 2022 (http://ubisecurity.org/2022/) the Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Trust Track (1) Trust semantics, metrics, and models for Big Data (2) Trust management and evaluation for Big Data (3) Trusted systems, software, and applications for Big Data (4) Trusted platform implementation technologies for Big Data (5) Information quality/trustworthiness for Big Data (6) Provenance of content for Big Data (7) Trustworthiness of ratings/recommender systems for Big Data Security Track (1) Security model and architecture for Big Data (2) Data mining security for Big Data (3) Software and system security for Big Data (4) Intrusion detection for Gigabit Networks (5) Cryptography and Big Data (6) Visualizing large scale security data (7) Threat detection using Big Data analytics (8) Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security (9) Data protection, integrity standards and policies (10) Security and legislative impacts for Big Data (11) Managing user access for Big Data (12) Secure quantum communications Privacy Track (1) Privacy in Big Data applications and services (2) Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering (3) Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation (4) Privacy in parallel and distributed computation (5) Privacy in Big Data storage management (6) Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms (7) Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics (8) Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization (9) Big Data privacy policies and standards Submission and Publication Information The accepted papers from this workshop will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) . Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trustdata2022) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. 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 (https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. 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. All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference. Authors (at least one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 14, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 General Chairs Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Arun Kumar Sangaiah, VIT University, India Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Program Chairs Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian, Australia Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center/Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Christian Callegari, The University of Pisa, Italy Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore John A. Clark University of York, UK Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yucong Duan, Hainan University, China Sheikh M. Habib, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics, Greece Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xin Liao, Hunan University, China Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, USA Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria Chao Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Chang-ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yuanyuan Sun, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, USA Mingzhong Wang, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hejun Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Peiyin Xiong, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Dengfeng Xiao, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Weiwei Chen, Hunan University, China Bo Ou, Hunan University, China Webmaster Ziyi Tang, Hunan University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning TrustData 2022 to: Prof. Qin Liu: gracelq AT 126 DOT com Prof. Qin Liu's Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ ====================================================================== 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. Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK Title: Next Generation Security for Cyber Physical Systems https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-hill (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Tien N. Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Intelligent Software Vulnerability Detection https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tien.n.nguyen/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Title: Security-Aware Task Execution across the Edge-Cloud Continuum https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/118157-rana-omer (4) Keynote 4: Prof. Kouichi SAKURAI, Kyushu University, Japan Title: State and Issues of Non-Fungible Token from Technical Point of View https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K000220/english.html (5) Keynote 5: Prof. Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Title: Achieving Scalability and Interpretability Simultaneously in Detecting Multi-granularity Vulnerabilities http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/zoudeqing/zh_CN/index.htm ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Invited Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Prof. Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Title: New Insights on Cryptographic Hierarchical Access Control: Models, Schemes, and Analysis https://docenti.unisa.it/026260/en/home (2) Prof. Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Title: Optimize Industrial IoT HVAC by using Machine Learning https://liu.se/en/employee/scofo47, https://sites.google.com/site/scofo47 (3) Prof. Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Title: Online user analysis and learning optimization http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/jiangwenjun (4) Prof. Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Operational Technology (OT) and Supply Chain Cyber Security: The Storm Approaching Us https://itee.uq.edu.au/profile/1409/ryan-ko (5) Prof. Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Title: Secure Search in Cloud Computing and Emerging Applications https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ (6) Prof. Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Title: Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Drones http://www.sabumthampi.in (7) Prof. Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Title: Distributed Mobile Computation Offloading and Edge Intelligence https://cist.bnu.edu.cn/xygk/szdw/zgj/104104.html (8) Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Title: Mutual Authentication with Multi-factor and Hybrid Approach to Intrusion Detection in IoT-Fog-Cloud Environment https://lrg.ufsc.br/westphal/ (9) Prof. Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Title: Trustworthiness of anomaly detection for IIoT http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/yw433/ (10) Prof. Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Title: Blockchain-enabled Cloud Security: Frameworks and Solutions http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/xuyang ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section You are welcome to attend 2+ Panel Discussions offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 15+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication*: (1) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.559) Special Section on Blockchain and Security (Pending). (2) Information Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 6.795) Special Issue on Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence (Pending). (3) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Fog/Edge Computing based Smart Sensing System http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/FCSCS Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (4) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/Cyber_Situational_… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (5) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/STPNCE Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (6) Connection Science (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.972) https://www.tandfonline.com/ccos20 Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (7) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cryptography and Security Protocol in Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/CSPIOT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (8) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.679) Special Issue on Computational Methods for Next Generation Wireless and IoT Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Generation_Wireless_IoT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (9) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Human-Machine Interface for Healthcare Diagnostics and Bioengineering Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/advanced_signal_process… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. (10) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397) Special Issue on Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/cyber_industrial_co… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2022. (11) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things and Mobile Crowdsensing https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/SP_EFC Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2022 (with possible extension later). (12) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcse Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (13) Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT) (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/dlt/pdf/DLT-SI-Recent-Adv… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022. (14) Acta Informatica Pragensia Special Issue on Deep Learning Blockchain-enabled Technology for Improved Healthcare Industrial Systems https://aip.vse.cz/corproof.php?tartkey=aip-000000-0305&fbclid=IwAR1veJzaae… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== -- 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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THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS : 10th INDIAN CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS
by Sreejith A V 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

*10th INDIAN CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS* March 3-5, 2023 IIT Indore, India https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/index.html *THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS* ALI, the Association for Logic in India, announces the tenth edition of its biennial International Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA), to be held at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, from March 3rd to 5th, 2023. ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant role, including mathematicians, philosophers, computer scientists, linguists, and logicians studying the foundations of formal logic. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies on systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and historical research on logic. As in the earlier events in this series, we shall have eminent logicians as invited speakers. Details of the last ICLA (2021) may be found at https://www.isichennai.res.in/~sujata/icla2021/index.html *Submission guidelines:* Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and applications. Articles on mathematical and philosophical logic, foundations and philosophy of mathematics and the sciences, set theory, history of logic, Indian systems of logic, use of formal logic in areas of theoretical computer science, formal verification and artificial intelligence, or on the relationship between logic and other branches of knowledge, are welcome. Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. The submission may not exceed 12 pages in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style. All submissions will be in electronic form and submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icla2023. If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results can be included in a clearly marked appendix which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. The submission must be a PDF file. Concurrent submission to journals or to other conferences with proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available at the time of the conference. It is expected that the conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference. *Important dates:* Deadline for Submission: *2 October 2022* Notification to Authors: *29 November 2022* Deadline for camera-ready papers: *16 December 2022* Conference dates: *3rd - 5th March 2023* *Program committee:* • *C. Aiswarya, Chennai Mathematical Institute• Mohua Banerjee (co-chair), IIT Kanpur• Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford• Thomas Colcombet, IRIF• Laure David, City, University of London• Soma Dutta, University of Warmia and Mazury• Deepak D'Souza, IISc Bangalore• John Horty, University of Maryland• Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki• Minghui Ma, Sun Yat-Sen University• Amaldev Manuel, IIT Goa• Luca Motto Ros, University of Turin• Alessandra Palmigiano, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam• M. Praveen, Chennai Mathematical Institute• Prakash Saivasan, IMSc Chennai• H. P. Sankappanavar, SUNY at New Paltz• Manidipa Sanyal, University of Calcutta• A. V. Sreejith (co-chair), IIT Goa• Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw and Linkoping University• Giorgio Venturi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas• Zach Weber, University of Otago* *Organising committee:* • *Md. Aquil Khan, IIT Indore• Somnath Dey, IIT Indore• M. Tanveer, IIT Indore• Vijay Kumar Sohani, IIT Indore* *Contact:* Any queries related to the conference may be sent to the following email address: icla2023(a)easychair.org. Thanks, Mohua and Sreejith

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ANTIC-2022 | BHU Varanasi, India | CCIS Springer [Scopus Indexed]
by Dr. Anshul Verma 13 Sep '22

13 Sep '22

Dear Prof./Researcher, Greetings from Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. We are glad to inform you that the Department of Computer Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India is organizing the *2nd International Conference on Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing (ANTIC-2022)* in *hybrid *mode from *22nd to 24th December 2022*. The proceedings of conference will be published in *Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS)* series of *Springer* [*SCOPUS* Indexed]. You are cordially invited to submit high quality research papers in the areas of Advanced Network Technologies and Intelligent Computing. The topics covered (but are not limited to) in the conference are as follows: *Advanced Network Technologies* *Intelligent Computing* · Blockchain Technology · Cloud, Edge & Fog Computing · Distributed Computing · High Performance Computing · Internet of Things · Mobile Ad-hoc Networks · Networks Security · Social Networking · Software Defined Networks · Wireless Sensor Networks · Artificial Intelligence · Deep Learning · Evolutionary Algorithms · Fuzzy Systems · Genetic Algorithms · Machine Learning · Video, Speech & Text Processing using AI · Neural Networks · Recommendation System · Soft Computing *Paper Submission Link:* *https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/ANTIC2022 <https://equinocs.springernature.com/service/ANTIC2022>* *After Conference Proceedings:* Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series of Springer *Indexing of the CCIS Springer:* CCIS is abstracted/indexed in DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, and *Scopus*. CCIS volumes are also submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings. *Important Dates: * Last date of manuscript submission: 15-10-2022 Last date of acceptance notification: 30-11-2022 Last date of final manuscript submission: 10-12-2022 Last date of registration: 15-12-2022 *Registration & Publication Fees: * Indian Author: 6000 INR Foreign Author: 150 USD *Please visit our website for more details:* *www.antic.co.in <http://www.antic.co.in/>* *Call for Reviewer: *Interested faculty members/researchers/industry professionals may join us as Reviewer by filling the following Google Form. The eligibility criteria for the reviewer is Ph.D. awarded or pursuing. Each reviewer will receive a Certificate. *https://forms.gle/weTtyZHgn8FJKszt6 <https://forms.gle/weTtyZHgn8FJKszt6>* You are requested to share this call for paper with your esteemed research circle and scholars. Thank you very much for your kind support. *With Best Regards,* Dr. Anshul Verma (Programme Chair & Convener, ANTIC-2022) Department of Computer Science Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi – 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India Email ID: antic2022.bhu(a)gmail.com; anshulverma87(a)gmail.com Mobile No.: +91-9826074618; +91-7903496917

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Subodh Sharma on Sept. 6 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Subodh Sharma, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, September 6, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWNpZWM5bTR2YzV1c20…> ). The details of the talk can be found on the 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, Deepak, Madhukar, Rahul, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Exploiting partial orders and symmetries in efficient analysis of message-passing concurrency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The message passing paradigm is the lingua franca for developing large distributed-memory programs, such as high-performance scientific computing and event-driven web applications. Message-passing applications are often found to be using communication nondeterminism (used primarily to obtain efficiency by masking network latencies) and symmetric communication among processes (which keeps programming simple). Under communication nondeterminism, a process can post (possibly asynchronous) receive calls that can potentially match any of the messages sent to the process. Under symmetric communication, a process's communication structure may be partly or completely symmetric with the communication structure of other processes. Interestingly, communication nondeterminism is one of the important sources of analysis complexity and detecting symmetries is, in general, hard. This talk will present practical techniques to efficiently analyse message passing programs by (i) exploiting partial order among the communication dependencies and (ii) detecting symmetries in process-communication. The work in this talk has been published in TOPLAS 2017, FM 2018, ICST 2021, and ASE 2022. Bio: Subodh Sharma is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi. His research interests lie in the area of software engineering and formal methods, particularly in ensuring the reliability of parallel software via static and dynamic program analyses, model checking, and PL solutions, and employing HPC towards the creation of scalable verification technology. Lately, his research investigations have also spanned the areas of systems security, data privacy, and Blockchain.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Subodh Sharma on Sept. 6 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Subodh Sharma, a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, September 6, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWNpZWM5bTR2YzV1c20…> ). The details of the talk can be found on the 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, Deepak, Madhukar, Rahul, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Exploiting partial orders and symmetries in efficient analysis of message-passing concurrency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: The message passing paradigm is the lingua franca for developing large distributed-memory programs, such as high-performance scientific computing and event-driven web applications. Message-passing applications are often found to be using communication nondeterminism (used primarily to obtain efficiency by masking network latencies) and symmetric communication among processes (which keeps programming simple). Under communication nondeterminism, a process can post (possibly asynchronous) receive calls that can potentially match any of the messages sent to the process. Under symmetric communication, a process's communication structure may be partly or completely symmetric with the communication structure of other processes. Interestingly, communication nondeterminism is one of the important sources of analysis complexity and detecting symmetries is, in general, hard. This talk will present practical techniques to efficiently analyse message passing programs by (i) exploiting partial order among the communication dependencies and (ii) detecting symmetries in process-communication. The work in this talk has been published in TOPLAS 2017, FM 2018, ICST 2021, and ASE 2022. Bio: Subodh Sharma is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi. His research interests lie in the area of software engineering and formal methods, particularly in ensuring the reliability of parallel software via static and dynamic program analyses, model checking, and PL solutions, and employing HPC towards the creation of scalable verification technology. Lately, his research investigations have also spanned the areas of systems security, data privacy, and Blockchain.

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TrustData 2022 CFP with 5+Keynotes&10+Invited Talks&10+SIs: Deadline Extended to Oct. 10
by Qin Liu 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

************************************************************************************************** We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this TrustData 2022 CFP. We appreciate your great help if you forward this TrustData 2022 CFP to your colleages and friends. ************************************************************************************************** Call for Papers for the 13th International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data (TrustData 2022) Venue & Dates: Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Conference Website: http://ubisecurity.org/TrustData/2022/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The proliferation of new technologies such as Internet of Things and cloud computing calls for innovative ideas to retrieve, filter, and integrate data from a large number of diverse data sources. Big Data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose volume/velocity/variability is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to manage and process the data within a tolerable period of time. More importantly, Big Data has to be of high value, and should be protected in an efficient way. Since Big Data involves a huge amount of data that is of high-dimensionality and inter-linkage, existing trust, security, and privacy measures for traditional databases and infrastructures cannot satisfy its requirements. Novel technologies for protecting Big Data are attracting researchers and practitioners with more and more attention. Scope and Interests TrustData 2022 is a part of UbiSec 2022 (http://ubisecurity.org/2022/) the Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Trust Track (1) Trust semantics, metrics, and models for Big Data (2) Trust management and evaluation for Big Data (3) Trusted systems, software, and applications for Big Data (4) Trusted platform implementation technologies for Big Data (5) Information quality/trustworthiness for Big Data (6) Provenance of content for Big Data (7) Trustworthiness of ratings/recommender systems for Big Data Security Track (1) Security model and architecture for Big Data (2) Data mining security for Big Data (3) Software and system security for Big Data (4) Intrusion detection for Gigabit Networks (5) Cryptography and Big Data (6) Visualizing large scale security data (7) Threat detection using Big Data analytics (8) Human computer interaction challenges for Big Data security (9) Data protection, integrity standards and policies (10) Security and legislative impacts for Big Data (11) Managing user access for Big Data (12) Secure quantum communications Privacy Track (1) Privacy in Big Data applications and services (2) Privacy in Big Data end-point input validation and filtering (3) Privacy in Big Data integration and transformation (4) Privacy in parallel and distributed computation (5) Privacy in Big Data storage management (6) Privacy in Big Data access control mechanisms (7) Privacy in Big Data mining and analytics (8) Privacy in Big Data sharing and visualization (9) Big Data privacy policies and standards Submission and Publication Information The accepted papers from this workshop will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) . Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=trustdata2022) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. 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 (https://www.springer.com/cn/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. 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. All presented papers in the conference will be published in the proceedings of the conference. Authors (at least one) of any accepted paper are requested to register at the conference. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 14, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 General Chairs Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Arun Kumar Sangaiah, VIT University, India Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Program Chairs Jiankun Hu, University of New South Wales at the Australian, Australia Isaac Agudo, University of Malaga, Spain Program Committee (In alphabetical order) Habtamu Abie, Norwegian Computing Center/Norsk Regnesentral, Norway Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Christian Callegari, The University of Pisa, Italy Wei Chang, Saint Joseph's University, USA Anupam Chattopadhyay, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore John A. Clark University of York, UK Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Trieste and ICAR-CNR, Italy Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Yucong Duan, Hainan University, China Sheikh M. Habib, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics, Greece Ryan Ko, University of Waikato, New Zealand Ruggero Donida Labati, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Xin Liao, Hunan University, China Giovanni Livraga, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Italy Haibing Lu, Santa Clara University, USA Joon S. Park, Syracuse University, USA Roberto Di Pietro, Nokia Bell Labs, France Vincenzo Piuri, Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Imed Romdhani, Edinburgh Napier University, UK Bimal Roy, Indian Statistical Institute, India Jun Shen, University of Wollongong, Australia Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria Chao Song, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Chang-ai Sun, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Yuanyuan Sun, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Luis Javier Garcia Villalba, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, USA Mingzhong Wang, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia Yongdong Wu, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Hejun Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Muneer Masadeh Bani Yassein, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA Peiyin Xiong, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Dengfeng Xiao, Hunan University of Science and Technology, China Publicity Chairs Weiwei Chen, Hunan University, China Bo Ou, Hunan University, China Webmaster Ziyi Tang, Hunan University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning TrustData 2022 to: Prof. Qin Liu: gracelq AT 126 DOT com Prof. Qin Liu's Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ ====================================================================== 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. Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, UK Title: Next Generation Security for Cyber Physical Systems https://pure.hud.ac.uk/en/persons/richard-hill (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Tien N. Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Intelligent Software Vulnerability Detection https://personal.utdallas.edu/~tien.n.nguyen/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Title: Security-Aware Task Execution across the Edge-Cloud Continuum https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/118157-rana-omer (4) Keynote 4: Prof. Kouichi SAKURAI, Kyushu University, Japan Title: State and Issues of Non-Fungible Token from Technical Point of View https://hyoka.ofc.kyushu-u.ac.jp/search/details/K000220/english.html (5) Keynote 5: Prof. Deqing Zou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Title: Achieving Scalability and Interpretability Simultaneously in Detecting Multi-granularity Vulnerabilities http://faculty.hust.edu.cn/zoudeqing/zh_CN/index.htm ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section You are welcome to attend 10+ Invited Talks offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Prof. Arcangelo Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy Title: New Insights on Cryptographic Hierarchical Access Control: Models, Schemes, and Analysis https://docenti.unisa.it/026260/en/home (2) Prof. Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Title: Optimize Industrial IoT HVAC by using Machine Learning https://liu.se/en/employee/scofo47, https://sites.google.com/site/scofo47 (3) Prof. Wenjun Jiang, Hunan University, China Title: Online user analysis and learning optimization http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/jiangwenjun (4) Prof. Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Title: Operational Technology (OT) and Supply Chain Cyber Security: The Storm Approaching Us https://itee.uq.edu.au/profile/1409/ryan-ko (5) Prof. Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Title: Secure Search in Cloud Computing and Emerging Applications https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/ (6) Prof. Sabu M. Thampi, Kerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Title: Security and Privacy Issues in the Internet of Drones http://www.sabumthampi.in (7) Prof. Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Title: Distributed Mobile Computation Offloading and Edge Intelligence https://cist.bnu.edu.cn/xygk/szdw/zgj/104104.html (8) Prof. Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Title: Mutual Authentication with Multi-factor and Hybrid Approach to Intrusion Detection in IoT-Fog-Cloud Environment https://lrg.ufsc.br/westphal/ (9) Prof. Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, UK Title: Trustworthiness of anomaly detection for IIoT http://empslocal.ex.ac.uk/people/staff/yw433/ (10) Prof. Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Title: Blockchain-enabled Cloud Security: Frameworks and Solutions http://csee.hnu.edu.cn/people/xuyang ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section You are welcome to attend 2+ Panel Discussions offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 15+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication*: (1) IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 0.559) Special Section on Blockchain and Security (Pending). (2) Information Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 6.795) Special Issue on Decentralized Trust Management with Intelligence (Pending). (3) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Fog/Edge Computing based Smart Sensing System http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/FCSCS Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (4) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cyber Situational Awareness in Computer Networks https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/Cyber_Situational_… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (5) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security, Trust and Privacy in New Computing Environments https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/topical_collections/STPNCE Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (6) Connection Science (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.972) https://www.tandfonline.com/ccos20 Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (7) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Cryptography and Security Protocol in Internet of Things https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/CSPIOT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (8) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.679) Special Issue on Computational Methods for Next Generation Wireless and IoT Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci/special_issues/Generation_Wireless_IoT Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2022. (9) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Advanced Signal Processing and Human-Machine Interface for Healthcare Diagnostics and Bioengineering Applications https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/advanced_signal_process… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. (10) Electronics (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.397) Special Issue on Cybersecurity and Privacy Issues in Cyber-Physical Systems and Industrial Control Systems https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/cyber_industrial_co… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2022. (11) Sensors (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.576) Special Issue on Security and Privacy for Edge, Fog, and Cloud Computing; the Internet of Things and Mobile Crowdsensing https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/SP_EFC Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 October 2022 (with possible extension later). (12) International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering (IJCSE) (EI Indexed) http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalCODE=ijcse Some selected conference papers will be recommended for possible publication in regular issues of this journal, with a sufficient amount of new materials added into the journal version. Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2023. (13) Distributed Ledger Technologies: Research and Practice (DLT) (EI Indexed) Special Issue on Recent Advances of Blockchain Evolution: Architecture and Performance https://dl.acm.org/pb-assets/static_journal_pages/dlt/pdf/DLT-SI-Recent-Adv… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 December 2022. (14) Acta Informatica Pragensia Special Issue on Deep Learning Blockchain-enabled Technology for Improved Healthcare Industrial Systems https://aip.vse.cz/corproof.php?tartkey=aip-000000-0305&fbclid=IwAR1veJzaae… Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 December 2022. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== -- 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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Second Batch UbiSec 2022 CFPs : Deadline October 10, 2022 (Extended)
by Qin Liu 29 Aug '22

29 Aug '22

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Second Batch UbiSec 2022 CFPs with Deadline October 10, 2022 (Extended). ============================== UbiSec 2022 ============================== Second Batch CFPs of The Second International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2022) Zhangjiajie, China, December 28 - 31, 2022 Organizers: Guangzhou University, China Jishou University, China ====================================================================== Highlights: 5+ Keynote Speeches, 10+ Invited Talks, 16+ Journal Special Issues, and 3 Tracks: Please check the conference website for details: http://ubisecurity.org/2022/ ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 14, 2022 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2022 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 28 - 31, 2022 General Chairs Hanpin Wang, Guangzhou University, China Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Ernesto Damiani, Khalifa University, UAE/Universita' degli Studi di Milano, Italy Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Haroon Elahi, Umea University, Sweden Yulei Wu, University of Exeter, United Kingdom Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2022 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2022 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2022 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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Post-doc hiring in Singapore-French collaborative program Descartes on Formal Reasoning and AI
by Abhik Roychoudhury 25 Aug '22

25 Aug '22

*Post-doc hiring in Singapore-French collaborative program Descartes on Formal Reasoning and AI* Several Post-doctoral positions are invited in the 5-year research program Descartes: Intelligent Modeling for Decision-making in Critical Urban Systems. This program is jointly between National University of Singapore (NUS), CNRS France, and several organizations in Singapore and France. One facet of the program deals with formal reasoning and AI, for which we are seeking to hire a postdoctoral research fellow. The research work is on trustworthy AI, intersecting between formal methods and AI. See https://descartes.cnrsatcreate.cnrs.fr/wp-1-trustworthy-hybrid-ai/ It will focus on one or more of the following research themes: 1.We want to provide /formal /guarantees about the intelligent systems, considering all possible behaviors. In doing so, combining formal reasoning with learning processes, we will contribute to the development of /neuro-symbolic reasoning/. Moving forward from verification, it would also be critical for autonomous systems to employ self-healing, subject to adaptations in the environment which includes humans. In this context, there exist significant opportunities in /automated code generation and rectification/ using language models, and using formal reasoning to enhance trust in the generated code. 2.At the same time, the verification of hyper-properties of intelligent systems has gained importance, with newer techniques for privacy, robustness and fairness. Formal methods to establish hyper-properties in intelligent decision-making may thus decompose a high-dimensional input space into hyper-cubes and calculate the “desired” probabilities of the hyper-cubes to preserve an overall hyper-property for the entire system. Alternatively, the probabilistic nature of hyper-properties may be exploited to establish their validity by adaptively sampling inputs from a high dimensional space. 3.We will develop deductive reasoning-based explanations of hyper-property violations (apart from explaining the AI model predictions), which can then be used by neuro-symbolic reasoning technique to rectify the AI models so that it can satisfy fairness/robustness etc. We also plan to study interactive mechanisms for producing explanations while considering the cognitive load of understanding the explanations by human users. The post-doc will work from CREATE Tower on the National University of Singapore campus which is a leading university in Asia and provides significant opportunities for career growth, supervised jointly by French and Singaporean colleagues. Interested candidates can directly contact the following Lead Principal Investigators (Lead PIs): Blaise Genest, CNRS Senior Researcher, https://perso.crans.org/genest/ Abhik Roychoudhury, Provost’s Chair Professor, National University of Singapore, https://abhikrc.com/ -- -Abhik Roychoudhury School of Computing National University of Singapore https://abhikrc.com

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ICLA 2023: Call for Papers
by Sreejith A V 23 Aug '22

23 Aug '22

Dear Prospective Authors, *10th INDIAN CONFERENCE ON LOGIC AND ITS APPLICATIONS* March 3-5, 2023 IIT Indore, India https://icla2023.iiti.ac.in/index.html *SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS* ALI, the Association for Logic in India, announces the tenth edition of its biennial International Conference on Logic and its Applications (ICLA), to be held at the Indian Institute of Technology Indore, from March 3rd to 5th, 2023. ICLA is a forum for bringing together researchers from a wide variety of fields in which formal logic plays a significant role, including mathematicians, philosophers, computer scientists, linguists, logicians studying foundations of formal logic. A special feature of this conference is the inclusion of studies in systems of logic in the Indian tradition, and historical research on logic. As in the earlier events in this series, we shall have eminent logicians as invited speakers. Details of the last ICLA (2021) may be found at https://www.isichennai.res.in/~sujata/icla2021/index.html *Submission guidelines:* Authors are invited to submit papers presenting original and unpublished research in any area of logic and applications. Articles on mathematical and philosophical logic, foundations and philosophy of mathematics and the sciences, set theory, history of logic, Indian systems of logic, use of formal logic in areas of theoretical computer science, formal verification and artificial intelligence, or on the relationship between logic and other branches of knowledge, are welcome. Submissions must be in English and should provide sufficient detail to allow the programme committee to assess the merits of the paper. The submission may not exceed 12 pages in Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes LaTeX2e style. All submissions will be in electronic form and submitted through Easychair via https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=icla2023. If necessary, detailed proofs of technical results can be included in a clearly marked appendix which may be read at the discretion of the programme committee. The submission must be a PDF file. Concurrent submission to journals or to other conferences with proceedings is not allowed. Submitted papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, which will be made available at the time of the conference. It is expected that the conference proceedings will appear as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. For an accepted paper to be included in the proceedings, one of the authors must commit to presenting the paper at the conference. *Important dates:* Deadline for Submission: *2 October 2022* Notification to Authors: *29 November 2022* Deadline for camera-ready papers: *16 December 2022* Conference dates: *3rd - 5th March 2023* *Programme committee:* • *C. Aiswarya, Chennai Mathematical Institute• Mohua Banerjee (co-chair), IIT Kanpur• Michael Benedikt, University of Oxford• Thomas Colcombet, IRIF• Laure David, City, University of London• Soma Dutta, University of Warmia and Mazury• Deepak D'Souza, IISc Bangalore• John Horty, University of Maryland• Juliette Kennedy, University of Helsinki• Minghui Ma, Sun Yat-Sen University• Amaldev Manuel, IIT Goa• Luca Motto Ros, University of Turin• Alessandra Palmigiano, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam• M. Praveen, Chennai Mathematical Institute• Prakash Saivasan, IMSc Chennai• H. P. Sankappanavar, SUNY at New Paltz• Manidipa Sanyal, University of Calcutta• A. V. Sreejith (co-chair), IIT Goa• Andrzej Szalas, University of Warsaw and Linkoping University• Giorgio Venturi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas• Zach Weber, University of Otago* *Organising committee:* • *Md. Aquil Khan, IIT Indore• Somnath Dey, IIT Indore• M. Tanveer, IIT Indore• Vijay Kumar Sohani, IIT Indore* *Contact:* Any queries related to the conference may be sent to the following email address: icla2023(a)easychair.org. Regards, Sreejith and Mohua

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