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

05 Nov '24

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

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

22 Oct '24

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

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

15 Oct '24

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

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

14 Oct '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Jan Křetínský, a professor for Formal Methods for Software Reliability at the Technical University of Munich. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October 15, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWN0OWYwcT…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Learning and Guessing Winning Policies in LTL Synthesis via Semantics Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We discuss a learning-based framework for guessing a winning strategy in a parity game originating from a reactive synthesis problem for LTL. Its applications range from cases where the game's huge size prohibits rigorous approaches, over increasing scalability of rigorous synthesis, to explainability of synthesized controllers. We discuss the advantages and caveats of these new avenues in synthesis. On the technical level, we describe (i) how to reflect the highly structured logical information in game's states, the so-called semantic labelling, coming from the recent LTL-to-automata translations, and (ii) to do so by learning from previously solved games, bringing the solution process closer to human-like reasoning. Bio: After PhD from Technical University of Munich in 2013 and from Masaryk University Brno in 2014, Jan Křetínský was a research fellow at IST Austria and since 2015 a professor at TU Munich, getting tenure there. While still affiliated, he has recently moved to MU Brno. His main focus is basic research in verification, control and explainability of complex systems. Since 2013 he has been advocating and pioneering the use of AI and ML in verification.

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

06 Oct '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Jan Křetínský, a professor for Formal Methods for Software Reliability at the Technical University of Munich. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October 15, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWN0OWYwcT…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Learning and Guessing Winning Policies in LTL Synthesis via Semantics Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: We discuss a learning-based framework for guessing a winning strategy in a parity game originating from a reactive synthesis problem for LTL. Its applications range from cases where the game's huge size prohibits rigorous approaches, over increasing scalability of rigorous synthesis, to explainability of synthesized controllers. We discuss the advantages and caveats of these new avenues in synthesis. On the technical level, we describe (i) how to reflect the highly structured logical information in game's states, the so-called semantic labelling, coming from the recent LTL-to-automata translations, and (ii) to do so by learning from previously solved games, bringing the solution process closer to human-like reasoning. Bio: After PhD from Technical University of Munich in 2013 and from Masaryk University Brno in 2014, Jan Křetínský was a research fellow at IST Austria and since 2015 a professor at TU Munich, getting tenure there. While still affiliated, he has recently moved to MU Brno. His main focus is basic research in verification, control and explainability of complex systems. Since 2013 he has been advocating and pioneering the use of AI and ML in verification.

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

02 Oct '24

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

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

28 Sep '24

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

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

19 Sep '24

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

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

18 Sep '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Final UbiSec 2024 Second Batch CFPs with Deadline October 10, 2024. ============================= UbiSec 2024 ================================= Final CFPs of The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024 Organizers: Central South University, China Guangzhou University, China http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ ======================================================================== Keynote Speeches Section You are welcome to attend 3 Keynote Speeches offerred by world-renowned professors and industry leaders. The detailed information will appear soon. (1) Keynote 1: Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Title: Privacy Preserving Service Discovery in Wireless Communications http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/robertdeng/ (2) Keynote 2: Prof. Zonghua Gu, Ume University, Sweden Title: Towards Safe, Secure, and Efficient Resource-Constrained Cyber-Physical Systems https://www.umu.se/en/staff/zonghua-gu/ (3) Keynote 3: Prof. Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Title: Continuous Whole Area Authentication with WiFi-Enabled IoT Networks https://dependsys.com/dr-alam/ ====================================================================== Invited Talks Section TBD. ====================================================================== Panel Discussions Section TBD. ====================================================================== Special Issues Section Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be published in 10+ SCI & EI indexed special issues. Here is the list of Special Issues that we will recommend high-quality papers for possible publication *: (1) Journal of Systems Architecture (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 3.7) Special Issue on Security and Privacy in AIoT-enabled Smart Society https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/about… Deadline for manuscript submissions: April 1, 2025. (2) Applied Sciences (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 2.5) Special Issue on Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity: Challenges and Opportunities https://mdpi.com/si/214727 Deadline for manuscript submissions: August 1, 2025. (3) Discover Computing (SCI & EI Indexed, Impact Factor: 1.7) Special Issue on Advanced Pattern Recognition with AI https://link.springer.com/collections/diahciabdj Deadline for manuscript submissions: April 30, 2025. * More special issues will be available soon. ====================================================================== Welcome to participate in UbiSec 2024, Changsha, China, December 29 - 31, 2024! Changsha is a famous historical and cultural city with a variety of interest. This city has been an important grain production base in China since ancient times. The green and verdant Mt. Yuelu stands in the city and Xiangjiang River is clear as a mirror passing through the city. Orange Isle lies in the heart of the river. In particular, Changsha is very close to Chairman Mao's former residence within one-hour driving. Nowadays, being an intellectual center, Changsha has over 100 research institutions and engineering laboratories. Hybrid rice breeding and the Tianhe supercomputer are the main scientific research achievements. The 4th International Conference on Ubiquitous Security (UbiSec 2024) stems from three conference/symposium/workshop series: (1) The well-established SpaCCS conference series with Springer LNCS: UbiSec is inspired by the SpaCCS style of three tracks (Security, Privacy, and Anonymity, "Spa" for short), which covers "Big Security" leveraging computation, communication and storage ("CCS" for short) systems and networks. UbiSec extends this style with three new tracks: Cyberspace Security, Cyberspace Privacy, and Cyberspace Anonymity. (2) The UbiSafe symposium series: UbiSec follows the UbiSafe vision on "Ubiquitous Safety", also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SAFE" (pronounced "UbiSafe"). UbiSec extends this vision to "Ubiquitous Security", using "Big Security" to embrace NOT ONLY security, privacy and anonymity, BUT ALSO safety, reliability, dependability, trustworthiness and more, also meaning that "YOU (will) BE SEC(ure)" (pronounced "UbiSec"). (3) The IWCSS workshop series: UbiSec follows the IWCSS theme on "Cyberspace Security", with "Cyberspace" as the 5th national sovereign space besides the traditional four domains of land, sea, air, and aerospace. UbiSec extends this theme to "Ubiquitous Security", meaning that cyberspace will be secure, physical world will be secure, social networking systems will be secure, and thus "YOU (will) BE SECure"! The UbiSec 2024 Conference ("The Conference" for short) is the fourth event in the series of conferences/symposia/workshops which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in cyberspace, physical world, and social networks. The Conference covers many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for cyberspace, physical world, and social networking systems. As applications of computer and information technology have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The Conference will provide a forum for world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. UbiSec 2024 follows the UbiSec 2023 conference in Exeter, UbiSec 2022 conference in Zhangjiajie and the UbiSec 2021 in Guangzhou, and also the traditions of previous successful SpaCCS/UbiSafe/IWCSS conference/symposium/workshop series, held in Nanjing, China (SpaCCS 2020/UbiSafe 2020), Guangzhou,China (IWCSS 2020); Altanta, USA (SpaCCS 2019/UbiSafe 2019), Guangzhou, China (IWCSS 2019); Melbourne, Australia (SpaCCS 2018/UbiSafe 2018), Guangzhou China (IWCSS 2018); Guangzhou, China (SpaCCS 2017/UbiSafe 2017/IWCSS 2017); Zhangjiajie, China (SpaCCS 2016/UbiSafe 2016); Helsinki, Finland (UbiSafe 2015); Beijing, China (UbiSafe 2014); Melbourne, Australia (UbiSafe 2013); Liverpool, UK (UbiSafe 2012); Changsha, China (UbiSafe 2011); Chengdu China (UbiSafe 2009); and Niagara Falls, Canada (UbiSafe 2007). The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. The conference will focus on broad areas of architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for cyberspace security, cyberspace privacy, and cyberspace anonymity. UbiSec 2024 topics include, but are not limited to the following: Track 1: Cyberspace Security --Security Model and Architecture --Software and System Security --Trustworthy Computing --Security in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing --Machine Learning and AI Security --Network Security --Attacks and Defenses --Intrusion Detection and Prevention --Security in Web Services --Security in Mobile Social Networks --Security in Internet of Things --Fraud and Cyber Crime --Accounting and Auditing --Applied Cryptography --Database Security --Authentication --Forensics and Diagnostics for Security --Information Hiding --Security in Big Data and its Applications --Blockchain and Distributed System Security --Security in Hardware, Side Channels, and CyberPhysical Systems --Security in Formal Methods and Programming Languages Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy --Economics, Policies, Metrics, and Mechanisms of Privacy --Privacy Modeling and Analysis --Privacy-Preserving Computing --Privacy-Preserving Data Mining --Privacy-enhancing Technologies and Anonymity --Privacy for the Internet of Things --Privacy in Big Data and its Applications --Privacy-Preserving in Blockchain --Privacy-Preserving in Mobile Social Networks --Privacy-Preserving Crowdsensing --Privacy-Preserving Deep Learning Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity --Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing --Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships --Anonymous Video Analytics Technology --Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations --Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity --Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems --Anonymous Communication Protocols --Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks --Anonymous Communication and Internet --Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks --Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity --Anonymous Information Storage and Management --Private and Anonymous Data Storage --Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management --Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios --Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases --Anonymity in Sensor-Cloud Systems --Anonymity in Edge Computing IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: October 10, 2024 (Second Batch) Author Notification: November 14, 2024 (Second Batch) Author Registration Due: December 15, 2024 (Second Batch) Camera-Ready Paper Due: December 15, 2024 (Second Batch) Conference Dates: December 29 - 31, 2024 SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION INFORMATION All presented papers in the conference will be published in the conference proceedings with Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS). Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in Springer CCIS format (or up to 20 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Notice that accepted papers less than 12 pages will be tagged as Short Papers. Papers should be submitted through the EasyChair paper submission system at the conference website. Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. The program committee will select and give two or three "Best Paper Awards" for the conference. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. Excecutive General Chair Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China General Chairs Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Tian Wang, Beijing Normal University, China Guihua Duan, Central South University, China Program Chairs Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Yulei Wu, University of Bristol, United Kingdom Program Vice Chairs Track 1: Cyberspace Security Tariq Alsboui, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Muhammad Arif, Superior University Lahore, Pakistan Zhitao Guan, North China Electric Power University, China Qin Liu, Hunan University, China Yuxiang Ma, Henan University, China Junwei Zhou, Wuhan University of Technology, China Track 2: Cyberspace Privacy Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Bin Cao, Hebei University of Technology, China Songwen Pei, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, China Asis Kumar Tripathy, VIT University, India Zehua Wang, The University of British Columbia, Canada Shigeng Zhang, Central South University, China Track 3: Cyberspace Anonymity Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Antonio Esposito, Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy Jiajia Jiao, Shanghai Maritime University, China Florin Pop, Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB), Romania Zhe Qu, Central South University, China Guohua Tian, Xidian University, China Publicity Chairs Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Peter Mueller, University of Basel, Switzerland Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Xiangyong Liu, Guangzhou University, China Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA Guanghui Feng, Guangzhou University, China Registration Chair Pin Liu, Central South University, China Conference Secretariat Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Web Chairs Yonglin Liu, Foshan University, China Zhuoran Feng, Foshan University, China Steering Committee Guojun Wang, Guangzhou University, China (Chair) Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA (Chair) Saqib Ali, University of Agriculture Faisalabad, Pakistan Valentina E. Balas, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania Md Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Jiannong Cao, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scott Fowler, Linkoping University, Sweden Oana Geman, University of Suceava, Romania Richard Hill, University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom Ryan Ko, University of Queensland, Australia Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain Geyong Min, University of Exeter, UK Peter Mueller, University of Basel, Switzerland Kouichi Sakurai, Kyushu University, Japan Sabu M. Thampi, Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management - KeralaKerala University of Digital Sciences, Innovation and Technology (KUDSIT), India Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Yang Xu, Hunan University, China Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Wenyin Yang, Foshan University, China Haojin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Program Committee Please check the "Program Committee" web page at the conference website for detail: http://ubisecurity.org/2024/ Previous Proceedings UbiSec 2023: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-1274-8 UbiSec 2022: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-99-0272-9 UbiSec 2021: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-19-0468-4 Contact Please email inquiries concerning UbiSec 2024 to Prof. Guojun Wang: csgjwang AT gmail DOT com and Conference Organizers: UbiSec2024 AT googlegroups.com. Prof. Guojun Wang, Executive General Chair of UbiSec 2024 http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** Dr. Guojun Wang, Pearl River Scholarship Distinguished Professor Director of Institute of Computer Networks, School of Computer Science and Cyber Engineering, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, P. R. China, 510006 Mobile: +86-13360581866 Email: csgjwang AT gzhu.edu.cn http://trust.gzhu.edu.cn/faculty/~csgjwang/ *********************************************************************** -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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Soliciting talks and posters in PL and Verification to RHPL@FSTTCS 2024
by VSS IARCS 16 Sep '24

16 Sep '24

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

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