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

08 Jun '24

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

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

07 Jun '24

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

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

07 Jun '24

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this DASC 2024 Preliminary Call for Papers (CFPs). =====================CALL FOR PAPERS============================= The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing IEEE DASC 2024 http://cyber-science.org/2024/dasc/ joint conference IEEE DASC/PICom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech 2024 5-8 November 2024 - Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines =====================INTRODUCTION============================= As computer and communication systems, as well as other systems such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), and Autonomous Robotic Systems, become increasingly large and complex, their Dependability and Security play critical roles in supporting next-generation science, engineering, and commercial applications. It remains a challenge to design, analyze, evaluate, and improve the dependability and security of a large-scale computing environment. Trusted and autonomic computing/autonomous systems need synergistic research efforts covering many disciplines, from natural sciences to social sciences. It requires scientific and technological advances in a variety of fields, as well as new software, architectures, and communication technology that support the integration of the constituent technologies. IEEE DASC 2024 will be held during November 5-8, 2024, in Boracay Island, Malay, Philippines, co-located with IEEE CyberSciTech 2024, IEEE PICom 2024, and IEEE CBDCom 2024. It aims to bring together computer scientists, industrial engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange theoretical and implementation results, novel designs, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the areas of dependability, security, trust, and/or autonomic computing, and autonomous systems. =====================TRACKS AND TOPICS============================= - Track 1: Dependable and Fault-tolerant Computing - Track 2: Network and System Security and Privacy - Track 3: Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems - Track 4: Industrial Applications and Emerging Techniques - Track 5: Autonomic and Secure Computing with AI/ML Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: - Self-Organization and Organic Computing - Cognitive Computing and Self-Aware Computing - Energy Management in Autonomic Computing and Autonomous Systems - Dependable & Fault-tolerant Computing in Big Data, CPS, IoT, SDN, and Real-time System - Hardware and Software Reliability, Verification and Testing - Security and Privacy in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Big Data, CPS and IoT systems - Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Network and System Security and Privacy - Autonomic and Autonomous Issues in Cloud/Fog/Edge Computing, Mobile and Pervasive Computing, Big Data, CPS and IoT systems - Software/Apps/Tools Development for Dependable and Secure Applications - IoT and Sensor Network, Big Data, Smart Grid, Aerospace, Transportation Applications =====================IMPORTANT DATES========================== Paper Submission Due: 15 Jun 2024 Authors Notification: 15 Aug 2024 Camera-ready Submission: 15 Sep 2024 =====================SUBMISSION INSTRUCTION=================== Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Regular, work-in-progress (WiP), workshop, and special session papers need to be submitted in IEEE CS Proceedings format. IEEE formatting info: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html All the accepted papers will be published by IEEE in the Conference Proceedings (IEEE-DL and EI indexed). Best Paper Awards will be presented to high quality papers. Selected papers will be recommended to prestigious journal Special Issues. Some papers originally submitted as full papers can be accepted as short papers during the review process. In such cases, the authors will need to reduce the paper accordingly when preparing the camera-ready version. At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register and present the paper at the conference. Regular Tracks: 6-8 pages - WiP/Workshop/Special Session Tracks: 4-6 pages =====================ORGANIZING COMMITTEE============================= -Honorary Chairs- - Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, Univ. of Oklahoma, USA -General Chairs- - Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA - Kenichi Kourai, Kyushu Inst. of Tech., Japan -General Executive Chairs- - Moayad Aloqaily, Mohamad Bin Zayed Univ., UAE - Bernady O. Apduhan, Kyushu Sangyo Univ., Japan -Program Chairs- - Wenjia Li, New York Institute of Technology, USA - Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy -Program Co-chairs- - Mohamed Rahouti, Fordham University, USA - Wei Wang, Beijing Jiaotong University, China - Adnan Anwar, Deakin University, Australia - Shan Jiang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong - Changqing Luo, Virginia Commonwealth Univ., USA - Lei Chen, Georgia Southern University, USA -Workshop & Special Session Chairs- - Preeti Mishra, Doon University, India - Arafatur Rahman, University of Wolverhampton, UK -WiP & LBI Chairs- - Saqib Ali, Univ. of Agri. Faisalabad, Pakistan - Mrinal Kanti Bhowmik, Tripura University, India -Publicity Chairs- - Mubashir Rehmani, Cork Inst. of Tech., Ireland - Junjun Zheng, Hiroshima University, Japan - Qin Liu, Hunan University, China - Senthil Kumar, Mepco Schlenk Eng. College, India - Yuhong Liu, Santa Clara University, USA -Steering Committee- - Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan - Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier Univ., Canada - Yuanshun Dai, Univ. of Elec. Sci. & Tech. of China, China - Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan - Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan, Fordham University, USA Program Committee: Please check the "Program Committee" web page on the conference website for details: http://cyber-science.org/2024/dasc/tpc/ Contact: Please email inquiries concerning DASC 2024 to Prof. Zakirul Alam Bhuiyan: zakirulalam AT gmail DOT com. -- Dr. Qin Liu College of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering Hunan University Changsha, Hunan Province,P.R. China, 410082 Mobile: +86-13548577157 Email: gracelq628(a)hnu.edu.cn; gracelq628(a)126.com Homepage: https://qinliu-hnu.github.io/

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[extended June 23] CBT 2024 - CFP - International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (co-located with ESORICS)
by Cristina Pérez Solà 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 8th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2024 (in conjunction with ESORICS 2024 and DPM 2024) September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland Website: http://cbtworkshop.org/ ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Submission deadline: **June 23, 2024 (extended)** * Notification to authors: July 22, 2024 * Camera-ready versions: August 19, 2024 ********************************************************************* ================= WORKSHOP HISTORY ================= Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed with different success. While some of them are slightly different copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the proposed systems are often skipped. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems. The main topics include (but are not limited to): * Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies * Privacy-preserving technologies * Cryptocurrency based trust systems * Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies * Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems * Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies * Application and service cases of distributed ledgers technologies * P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis * Private transactions in blockchain based systems * New usages of the blockchain technology * Scalability solutions for blockchain systems * Blockchain-defined networking * Smart contracts * Distributed Identity Management * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance * Blockhain Protocols and algorithms * Transaction Monitoring and Analysis * Token Economy, finance and payments * Consensus mechanisms * On-chain and off-chain code synergies * Oracles, DeFi, and non-fungible tokens * Decentralized applications and protocols * Blockchain as a service =================== SUBMISSION DETAILS =================== Regular and short papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to 16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references and appendices, and can be submitted as PDF via the CBT 2024 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2024 *Double blind review*: CBT requires anonymized submissions -- please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Accepted regular papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. ================== PROGRAM COMMITEE ================== PC Chairs: Sergi Delgado-Segura - Chaincode Labs Cristina Perez-Sola - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona PC Members: Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg Mauro Conti - University of Padua Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Hannes Hartenstein - KIT Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Jiasun Li - George Mason University Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Virginia Tech and Georgetown University Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Dongming Peng - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin Florian Tschorsch - Technische Universitat Berlin Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute ================== VENUE/FORMAT ================== The workshop will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in conjunction with the 29th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS. 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[extended June 23] DPM 2024 - cfp - Data Privacy Manamgement, co-located with ESORICS 2024, Sep 19
by Guillermo Navarro-Arribas 05 Jun '24

05 Jun '24

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************** Data Privacy Management (DPM 2024) 19th International Workshop September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland (co-located with ESORICS 2024) website: https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/ ****************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES ====================== Submission Deadline: -- June 23, 2024 (extended) Notification: -- July 15, 2024 Camera Ready: -- August 19, 2024 ====== SCOPE ====== DPM is an annual international workshop covering research in data privacy management. Organizations are increasingly concerned about the privacy of information that they manage (as witnessed, for example, by lawsuits filed against organizations for violating the privacy of customer's data). Thus, the management of privacy-sensitive information is very critical and important for every organization. This poses several challenging problems, such as how to translate the high-level business goals into system-level privacy policies, administration of privacy-sensitive data, privacy preserving data integration and engineering, privacy preserving access control mechanisms, information-oriented security, and query execution on privacy-sensitive data for partial answers. Starting from these observations, the aim of DPM is to discuss and exchange ideas related to data privacy management. We invite papers from researchers and practitioners working in privacy, security, trustworthy data systems and related areas to submit their original papers in this workshop. Submissions by PhD students as well as controversial ideas are encouraged. Case studies (successful or not) are also encouraged. TOPICS ======== Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Privacy in Machine Learning - Privacy Information Management - Privacy Policy-based Infrastructures and Architectures - Privacy-oriented Access Control Languages and Models - Privacy in Trust Management - Privacy in Cryptocurrencies - Privacy Data Integration - Privacy Risk Assessment and Assurance - Privacy Services - Privacy Policy Analysis - Data Protection Regulations in Practice - Cryptographic Protocols for Privacy - Query Execution over Privacy Sensitive Data - Privacy Preserving Data Mining - Privacy for Integrity-based Computing - Privacy Monitoring and Auditing - Privacy in Social Networks - Privacy in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) Applications - Individual Privacy vs. Corporate/National Security - Privacy in computer networks - Privacy and RFIDs - Privacy and Big Data - Privacy in sensor networks - Privacy in the Internet of Things PAPER SUBMISSIONS =================== Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers can be submitted as Full Papers or Short Papers. Full papers should be at most 16 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Short papers should be at most 8 pages in the LNCS format, including the bibliography and well-marked appendices. Program Committee members are not required to read the appendices, so papers should be intelligible without them. Authors should indicate whether their paper is a short paper to differentiate them from full papers. All submissions must be written in English. It is planned to have accepted papers published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series, the LNCS template can be found at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs/lncs+authors. Authors must submit their papers by the indicated deadline, using the EasyChair web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dpm2024 Only PDF files will be accepted (a Latex source file will be required for the final version of the accepted papers). All papers will be refereed. Accepted papers must be presented at the Workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the workshop, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. GENERAL CHAIR =============== Joaquin Garcia-Alfaro ((Institut Polytechnique de Paris) PROGRAM CHAIRS =============== Ken Barker (University of Calgary) Guillermo Navarro-Arribas (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= Esma Aïmeur (University of Montreal) Abderrahim Ait Wakrime (Mohammed V University) Jordi Casas-Roma (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) Jordi Castellà-Roca (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Depeng Chen (Anhui University) Mauro Conti (University of Padua) Mathieu Cunche (University of Lyon / Inria) Nora Cuppens-Boulahia (Polytechnique Montreal) Mila Dalla Preda (University of Verona) Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) Jose M. De Fuentes (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) Josep Domingo-Ferrer (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Sebastien Gambs (Université du Québec à Montréal) Lorena González Manzano (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) M. Emre Gursoy (Koç University) Guy-Vincent Jourdan (University of Ottawa) Marc Juarez (University of Edinburgh) Christos Kalloniatis (University of the Aegean) Bruce Kapron (University of Victoria) Sokratis Katsikas (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) Christophe Kiennert (Telecom SudParis) Romain Laborde (University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III) Patrick Lacharme (Ensicaen) Giovanni Livraga (University of Milan) Brad Malin (Vanderbilt University) Lukas Malina (Brno University of Technology) David Megias (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) Chris Mitchell (Royal Holloway, University of London) Gerardo Pelosi (Politecnico di Milano) Cristina Perez-Sola (Universitat Utonoma de Barcelona) Kai Rannenberg (Goethe University Frankfurt) Isabel Praça (GECAD / ISEP) Ruben Rios (Universidad de Malaga) Pierangela Samarati (Universita degli Studi di Milano) Vicenç Torra (Umeå University) Alexandre Viejo (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) Isabel Wagner (University of Basel) Jens Weber (University of Victoria) Lena Wiese (University of Göttingen) Nicola Zannone (Eindhoven University of Technology) ================== VENUE/FORMAT ================== The workshop will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in conjunction with the 29th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS. More information on accommodation and venue available from the ESORICS 2024 website at https://esorics2024.org/ This call for papers and additional information about DPM 2024 can be found at https://deic.uab.cat/dpm/dpm2024/ Kinldy contact dpm2024(a)easychair.org in case of doubts or questions.

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Kartik Nagar on June 4 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 03 Jun '24

03 Jun '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Kartik Nagar, an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 04, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWlzcXUyN2…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Specifying and Verifying Correctness of Mergeable Replicated Data Types Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Modern decentralized applications often use multiple replicas/copies of data, each of which can be independently operated, to minimize data access latency, provide fault tolerance and improve scalability. Mergeable Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) have emerged as a systematic approach to the problem of ensuring that replicas remain eventually consistent despite concurrent conflicting updates. MRDTs draw inspiration from the Git version control system, where each update creates a new version and any two versions can be merged explicitly through a user-defined merge function. The full flexibility offered by MRDTs in terms of creating and merging arbitrary versions severely complicates the design and development of correct MRDT implementations. In this talk, I will present two orthogonal approaches for specification and verification of MRDTs: a highly expressive, axiomatic event-based specification approach supported by a semi-automated verification procedure, and a more intuitive (but restrictive) linearizability based specification approach supported by fully automated verification. Bio: Kartik Nagar is an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. He completed his PhD from IISc Bangalore, after which he was a postdoc at Purdue University. His research interests are in Automated Formal Verification, Program Analysis and Programming Languages, with emphasis on developing practical verification techniques for concurrent and distributed systems.

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FSTTCS 2024 - Call for papers
by Shibashis Guha 31 May '24

31 May '24

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

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CBT 2024 - CFP - International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology (co-located with ESORICS)
by Cristina Pérez Solà 31 May '24

31 May '24

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email. ********************************************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************************* 8th International Workshop on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology - CBT 2024 (in conjunction with ESORICS 2024 and DPM 2024) September 19, 2024, Bydgoszcz, Poland Website: http://cbtworkshop.org/ ********************************************************************* IMPORTANT DATES ================ * Submission deadline: June 6, 2024 * Notification to authors: July 22, 2024 * Camera-ready versions: August 19, 2024 ********************************************************************* ================= WORKSHOP HISTORY ================= Since the appearance of Bitcoin in 2009, a plethora of new cryptocurrencies and other blockchain based systems have been deployed with different success. While some of them are slightly different copies of Bitcoin, other ones propose interesting improvements or new usages of the underlying blockchain technology. However, the novelty of such technologies is often tied with rapid developments and proof-of-concept software, and rigorous scientific analyses of the proposed systems are often skipped. This workshop aims to provide a forum for researchers in this area to carefully analyze current systems and propose new ones in order to create a scientific background for a solid development of new cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology systems. The main topics include (but are not limited to): * Anonymity and privacy in cryptocurrencies * Privacy-preserving technologies * Cryptocurrency based trust systems * Security analysis of existing cryptocurrencies * Formal threat models in cryptocurrency systems * Improvement proposals for existing cryptocurrencies * Application and service cases of distributed ledgers technologies * P2P network cryptocurrencies analysis * Private transactions in blockchain based systems * New usages of the blockchain technology * Scalability solutions for blockchain systems * Blockchain-defined networking * Smart contracts * Distributed Identity Management * Distributed consensus and fault tolerance * Blockhain Protocols and algorithms * Transaction Monitoring and Analysis * Token Economy, finance and payments * Consensus mechanisms * On-chain and off-chain code synergies * Oracles, DeFi, and non-fungible tokens * Decentralized applications and protocols * Blockchain as a service =================== SUBMISSION DETAILS =================== Regular and short papers must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts following the LNCS Proceedings Manuscript style. Papers are limited to 16 pages (full papers), or 8 pages (short papers) including references and appendices, and can be submitted as PDF via the CBT 2024 submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cbt2024 *Double blind review*: CBT requires anonymized submissions -- please make sure that submitted papers contain no author names or obvious self-references. Accepted regular papers will be published by Springer in the LNCS collection. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register and present their work at the workshop; otherwise the paper will not be included in the proceedings. ================== PROGRAM COMMITEE ================== PC Chairs: Sergi Delgado-Segura - Chaincode Labs Cristina Perez-Sola - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona PC Members: Lennart Ante - Blockchain Research Lab Daniel Augot - INRIA Saclay Alex Biryukov - University of Luxembourg Mauro Conti - University of Padua Vanesa Daza - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Victor Garcia - Universitat Oberta de Catalunya Hannes Hartenstein - KIT Jordi Herrera-Joancomarti - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Jiasun Li - George Mason University Shin'ichiro Matsuo - Virginia Tech and Georgetown University Jose Luis Munoz-Tapia - Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Guillermo Navarro-Arribas - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona Dongming Peng - University of Nebraska-Lincoln Matteo Signorini - Nokia Bell Labs Hitesh Tewari - Trinity College Dublin Florian Tschorsch - Technische Universitat Berlin Eirini Tsiropoulou - University of New Mexico Dimitrios Vasilopoulos - IMDEA Software Institute ================== VENUE/FORMAT ================== The workshop will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, in conjunction with the 29th annual European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, ESORICS. 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Formal Methods Update Meeting 2024
by Ramchandra Phawade 30 May '24

30 May '24

Dear all, The Formal Methods Update Meeting 2024 will be held as a physical meeting at IIT Dharwad during 11th July - 13th July, 2024. Please visit the website https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/update2024/ for registration and other details. The FM Update Meeting is an informal event organized by the FM community in India annually, with the aim of getting FM researchers together to present and discuss topical developments in their areas of interest. Everybody interested in the use of Formal Methods in Program Design and Verification and Theoretical Computer Science is welcome to join. If you would like to give a talk at the meeting, please send us a title and an abstract of your talk to fmupdatemeet2024(a)gmail.com. Best regards, Organizing Committee, FM Update Meeting 2024

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IARCS Verification Seminar Series -- Talk by Kartik Nagar on June 4 at 1900 hrs IST
by VSS IARCS 27 May '24

27 May '24

Dear all, The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Kartik Nagar, an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, June 04, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MWlzcXUyN2…> ). The details of the talk can be found on our webpage ( https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/) and also appended to the body of this email. The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and for younger researchers to start working in these areas. All are welcome to join. Best regards, Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan ============================================================= Title: Specifying and Verifying Correctness of Mergeable Replicated Data Types Meeting Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09 (Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194) Abstract: Modern decentralized applications often use multiple replicas/copies of data, each of which can be independently operated, to minimize data access latency, provide fault tolerance and improve scalability. Mergeable Replicated Data Types (MRDTs) have emerged as a systematic approach to the problem of ensuring that replicas remain eventually consistent despite concurrent conflicting updates. MRDTs draw inspiration from the Git version control system, where each update creates a new version and any two versions can be merged explicitly through a user-defined merge function. The full flexibility offered by MRDTs in terms of creating and merging arbitrary versions severely complicates the design and development of correct MRDT implementations. In this talk, I will present two orthogonal approaches for specification and verification of MRDTs: a highly expressive, axiomatic event-based specification approach supported by a semi-automated verification procedure, and a more intuitive (but restrictive) linearizability based specification approach supported by fully automated verification. Bio: Kartik Nagar is an Assistant Professor at Department of CSE, IIT Madras. He completed his PhD from IISc Bangalore, after which he was a postdoc at Purdue University. His research interests are in Automated Formal Verification, Program Analysis and Programming Languages, with emphasis on developing practical verification techniques for concurrent and distributed systems.

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