[TYPES/announce] Postdoc position on Reversible computing
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Call for PostDocs The ANR REVER project is seeking applicants for two 1-year post-doctoral research positions. The work will be done either at the Spades team at INRIA Grenoble, at the Focus team at University of Bologna (joint team with INRIA Sophia Antipolis Méditerranée) or at the PPS laboratory at the University of Paris Denis Diderot. The REVER project aims at facilitating the programming of recoverable systems, i.e. of systems that can tolerate faults by means of system recovery techniques, using reversible computing. More precisely, the REVER project aims to study the possibility of defining semantically well-founded and composable abstractions for dependable computing on the basis of a reversible programming language substrate, where reversibility means the ability to undo any distributed program execution, possibly step by step, and to revert it to a state consistent with the past execution. See http://www.pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr/~jkrivine/ANR/REVER/ANR_REVER/Welcome.html for more information on the REVER project. The successful applicants will be expected to contribute to this research effort, which will include both semantic foundations, programming abstractions, and practical implementations. Requirements for application: * Ph.D. in Computer Science (completed or near completion) * A research background on concurrency theory, programming language semantics, programming language implementation, or distributed algorithms. Application procedure: * To apply send a curriculum, a publication record and a statement of interest via e-mail to Prof. Jean-Bernard Stefani jean-bernard.stef...@inria.fr, Dr. Ivan Lanese lan...@cs.unibo.it, and Dr Jean Krivine jean.kriv...@pps.univ-paris-diderot.fr. * Deadline: April 30, 2014
[TYPES/announce] Final CFP: 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2014) - June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] ICE 2014 7th Interaction and Concurrency Experience June 6, 2014, Berlin, Germany http://www.discotec.org/workshops/ice-2014 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2014 http://www.discotec.org === Highlights === - Innovative selection procedure - ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers - Invited talks: Kim Larsen and Pavol Cerny - Special issue in a highly-reputed journal === Important Dates === 12 March 2014...Abstract submission 15 March 2014...Full paper submission 16 March - 15 April 2014Reviews and PC discussion 16 April 2014...Notification to authors 6 June 2014.ICE in Berlin 15 September 2014...Camera-ready for post-proceedings === Scope === Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives for complex interactions. The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among components of concurrent/distributed systems, related to several areas of computer science in the broad spectrum ranging from formal specification and analysis to studies inspired by emerging computational models. We solicit contributions relevant to Interaction and Concurrency, including but not limited to: * Formal semantics * Process algebras and calculi * Models and languages * Protocols * Logics and types * Expressiveness * Model transformations * Tools, implementations, and experiments * Specification and verification * Coinductive techniques * Tools and techniques for automation * Synthesis techniques The special focus of ICE 2014 is automation in concurrency and interaction. === Selection Procedure === Since its 1st edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. During the review phase, each submission is published on a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all the PC members not in conflict with the submission. The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions and clarifications to the authors, allowing them to better explain all the aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion. As witnessed by the past six editions of ICE, this procedure considerably improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop. === Submission Guidelines === We invite for three types of submissions: (1) Full Papers; (2) Short Papers; (3) Brief Announcements of already Published Papers. Full and short papers will appear in the post-proceedings and must report previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The ICE 2014 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite for brief announcements of already published results, should the authors be interested in discussing their published research with the ICE community and giving a talk. Brief announcements will not be part of the post-proceedings. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2014). Full papers should not exceed 15 pages in length, while short papers and brief announcements should not exceed 5 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Accepted (full and short) papers and brief announcements must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. === Special Issue === We plan to invite extended versions of selected full papers to a special issue in a highly-reputed journal. Such contributions will be regularly peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be handled in a shorter time than regular submissions. === Invited Talks === Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Pavol Cerny (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) === Program Committee === Luis Soares Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, Italy) Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland) Laura Bocchi (Imperial College London, UK) Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, France) Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy) Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark) Nicolas D'Ippolito (Imperial
[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: SSV 2014
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] SSV 2014 Call for Papers http://www.ssv-conference.org/ 8th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification Vienna, July 23-24, 2014 co-located with CAV and ITP, as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic 2014. Important Dates === Paper Submission: April 1, 2014 Notification: May 1, 2014 Conference: July 23-24, 2014 Topics == Industrial-strength software analysis and verification has advanced in recent years through the introduction of model checking, automated and interactive theorem proving, and static analysis techniques, as well as correctness by design, correctness by contract, and model-driven development. However, many techniques are working under restrictive assumptions that are invalidated by complex embedded systems software such as operating system kernels, low-level device drivers, or microcontroller code. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry who are facing real software and real problems with the goal of finding real, applicable solutions. By real we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the industry is facing. A real solution is one that is applicable to the problem in industry and not one that only applies to an abstract, academic, toy version of it. In this workshop we will discuss software analysis and development techniques and tools; this forum will serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in dealing with existing and upcoming systems-level code. Topics include, but are not restricted to: * Model checking * Automated and interactive theorem proving * Static analysis * Automated testing * Model-driven development * Embedded systems development * Programming languages * Verifying compilers * Software certification * Software tools * Experience reports Submissions === Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system [https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2014] until April 1st, 2014. Papers should be up to 10 pages in pdf format and formatted in EPTCS style [http://info.eptcs.org/]. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All will be subject to peer review under normal conference standards. Experience reports and papers on work in progress are welcome as long as there is a clear contribution. Submissions which are based or discuss a non-trivial piece of software are required to make all those non-standard software parts available, which a referee may need, in order to check the claims of the submission. Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated. PC Chairs = Kim G. Larsen, AAU, Aalborg, Denmark Mads Chr. Olesen, AAU, Aalborg, Denmark Program Committee = Alessandro Coglio, Kestrel Institute Björn Lisper, Mälardalen University Cyrille Valentin Artho, AIST Frédéric Boniol, ONERA Heiko Falk, Ulm University Jan Peleska, TZI, Universitat Bremen, Germany Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel Corporation John Regehr, University of Utah Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Raimund Kirner, University of Hertfordshire Stefan Berghofer, secunet Security Networks AG Thomas Kropf, University of Tübingen Toby Murray, NICTA Steering Committee == R. Huuck, NICTA and UNSW, Sydney, Australia G. Klein, NICTA and UNSW, Sydney, Australia B. Schlich, ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg, Germany
