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

23 Aug '24

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

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

16 Aug '24

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

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

07 Aug '24

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

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

05 Aug '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Prakash Saivasan, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, August 06, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWRjc29rN3…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verifying Programs in Weak Memory Models with Persistency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, we will consider the problem of verifying concurrent programs. In here, we are given a set of programs that communicate through shared memory and a specification, we wish to algorithmically check if the programs violate the specification. The programmers, while writing code usually assume that the memory operations are immediate (referred to as sequential consistency). However, the modern day architectures, to optimise the running time, re-order the memory operations in a non-trivial manner. This leads to various memory models such as TSO, PSO and so on. We will walk through some of these memory models during the talk. The recent intel processor introduced persistency mechanism that allows for the writes to be archived. This can then be used to restart the computation in case of a crash. The main focus of the talk will be how to verify programs when persistency is combined with weak memory. Bio: Prakash Saivasan is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He obtained his PhD from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2016 and has done postdocs at T U Braunschweig and T U Kaiserslautern in Germany. His areas of interest are automata theory, logic, concurrency, and formal verification.

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

02 Aug '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Prakash Saivasan, an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, August 06, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWRjc29rN3…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Verifying Programs in Weak Memory Models with Persistency Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: In this talk, we will consider the problem of verifying concurrent programs. In here, we are given a set of programs that communicate through shared memory and a specification, we wish to algorithmically check if the programs violate the specification. The programmers, while writing code usually assume that the memory operations are immediate (referred to as sequential consistency). However, the modern day architectures, to optimise the running time, re-order the memory operations in a non-trivial manner. This leads to various memory models such as TSO, PSO and so on. We will walk through some of these memory models during the talk. The recent intel processor introduced persistency mechanism that allows for the writes to be archived. This can then be used to restart the computation in case of a crash. The main focus of the talk will be how to verify programs when persistency is combined with weak memory. Bio: Prakash Saivasan is an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai. He obtained his PhD from Chennai Mathematical Institute in 2016 and has done postdocs at T U Braunschweig and T U Kaiserslautern in Germany. His areas of interest are automata theory, logic, concurrency, and formal verification.

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

26 Jul '24

----- Forwarded message from Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> ----- From: Preetam Mukherjee <preetam.mukherjee(a)duk.ac.in> Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2024 12:13:02 +0530 ======================== Final Call: ICISS-2024 (Security Conference), Firm Deadline July 31 CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------- The 20th International Conference on Information Systems Security (ICISS-2024) December 16 - 20, 2024 LNMIIT Jaipur, INDIA https://iciss.isrdc.in ----------------------------------------------------------------- ICISS 2024 is accepting submissions under various tracks. Please consider submitting your security research to ICISS 2024. KEY HIGHLIGHTS: -------------- - submission deadline has been extended to July 31, 2024 - double-blind review, best paper award, proceedings as LNCS - exceptionally good papers will be invited to Sadhana journal + pre-conference winter school (Security Challenges with GenAI) + hands-on tutorial: Malware Hunt by KASPERSKY Labs + KEYNOTES by: Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi, Technical University of Darmstadt Alessandro Mei, Sapienza University of Rome Anoop Singhal, NIST Kari Konstiainen, ETH Zurich Aanchal Malhotra, Ripple Vincenzo Piuri, Univ of Milan Pierangela Samarati, Univ of Milan ABOUT ICISS 2024: ---------------- The 20th ICISS will be held at the LNM Institute of Information Technology (LNMIIT) Jaipur between December 16 and 20, 2024. This annual conference provides a forum for researchers and industry practitioners of security to present their cutting-edge research and use case experiences. We solicit previously unpublished technical papers in the field of Security & Privacy. Papers that involve innovative solutions, usability studies, longitudinal studies, industrial use cases, and SoK are welcome. ICISS also accepts submissions under Industry/Demo track demonstrating implementations/PoC in the area of systems security, and a separate track for PhD students presenting their early/WiP through lightning talks & posters. ICISS has generous funds supporting student to attend pre-conference school (tutorials, etc.) and the main conference. A broad but non-exhaustive list of TOPICS OF INTEREST is as below: SYSTEMS SECURITY OS, VM, containers, cloud Network: SDN, NFV, SD-WAN IoT, RFID, SCADA systems Communication Protocols IDS, IPS, SIEM, XDR, etc Honeypot, Botnet, etc ACCESS CONTROL Authentication, MFA Authorization model/policy PKI & Trust management Information flow control APPLICATION SECURITY Vulnerabilities, DevSecOps API security, WAF, OWASP Static/Binary analysis, Zero trust Malware, Ransomware, APTs HARDWARE SECURITY Remote attestation, PUFs Trojans, Backdoors, FPGA TEE, TRNG, 2FA, payment wallets PRIVACY PETs, anonymization tech Deidentification attacks Surveillance & Censorship Inference, correlation attacks BLOCKCHAIN Cryptocurrency, stablecoins Interoperability, scalability Smart contracts, concurrency DIDs, NFTs, CBDCs, AML SECURITY IN AI/ML Adversarial learning/inputs Prompt injection, RLHF strategies Model stealing, poisoning EMERGING TECH/STANDARDS ChatGPT, LaMDA, Dall-E 2, et al Security-by-design, SBOM Privacy-by-design, STIX/TAXII S&P USE CASES e-voting, e-gov, smart cities COVID-19 contact tracing SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: --------------------- Submissions must be written in English and should not exceed 20 pages using LNCS format; including the bibliography and appendices. DOUBLE-BLIND review process will be followed, therefore the manuscripts should not have author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, self-references or any indirect information related to authors of the manuscript. Please read the submission guidelines carefully before submitting to ICISS. The extended versions of a select few exceptional papers will be invited for publication in the Indian Academy of Sciences' journal Sadhana. Use of tools like ChatGPT while preparing the manuscripts must be explicitly mentioned as a footnote. Manuscripts must comply with the detailed submission guidelines provided on the website. Detailed Guidelines: https://iciss.isrdc.in/submission-guidelines/ Past Proceedings: https://dblp.org/db/conf/iciss https://link.springer.com/conference/iciss THERE WILL BE A BEST PAPER AWARD! The award constitutes a monetary component of INR 15,000 sponsored by IDRBT Hyderabad. The conference will be precedeed by a WINTER SCHOOL covering a set of state-of-the-art topics delivered by experts from the field. A hands-on tutorial on Malware Hunt will be be delivered by the KASPERSKY Labs GReAT Team. GENERAL CHAIR: ------------- RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay PROGRAM CHAIRS: -------------- Ram Krishnan, University of Texas at San Antonio Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay & IIM Mumbai STEERING COMMITTEE: ------------------ Venu Govindaraju, University of Buffalo Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin Atul Prakash, University of Michigan Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan RK Shyamasundar, IIT Bombay IMPORTANT DATES (in AoE): ------------------------ Submission deadline: July 31, 2024 (firm deadline, AoE) Acceptance notification: Sep 20, 2024 Camera-ready deadline: Sep 30, 2024 LINKS TO CALLS FOR OTHER TRACKS: ------------------------------- PhD Forum Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/phd-forum/ Tutorials Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/tutorials/ Demo Track: https://iciss.isrdc.in/call-for-industry-demo-papers/ -------------------------- END OF CALL ---------------------------

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

24 Jul '24

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

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

23 Jul '24

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

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

23 Jul '24

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

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

20 Jul '24

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

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