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2013-09-05 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
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 AVICPS 2013

   The 4th Analytic Virtual
Integration of Cyber-Physical Systems Workshop
http://www.analyticintegration.org/



  Vancouver, Canada, December 3, 2013.
   (Co-located with RTSS 2013)

   *** Paper Submission: September 23, 2013 ***

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Analytic Virtual Integration Cyber-Physical Systems (AVICPS)
workshop focuses on analytic techniques that enable the early
discovery of faults in CPS before the system is integrated or its
parts are built. Such an approach is known as analytic virtual
integration. The objective is to discover and resolve problems early
during the design and implementation phases where cost impact is low.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* A quantitative and early analysis of end-to-end system
  architecture performance that incorporates realistic hardware
  details (e.g. multi-core, memory architectures, I/O,
  network-on-chip, etc.) and workloads (e.g. video streams,
  weather data, GPS, critical messages, etc.)
* Fault tolerance technologies for handling the combination
  of faults in computing and communication hardware and software
  and physical system disturbances.
* Safety analysis such as model checking for mixed criticality
  CPS applications (e.g., flight management systems and safe
  interoperability of medical devices).
* System level optimization technologies that support the
  combinatorial optimization of task scheduling and allocation,
  I/O, and network traffic routing.
* Security protocol development and verification techniques for
  CPS applications.
* Modeling, simulation, and verification techniques for virtual
  integration.
* Models for describing or quantifying the environment that
  systems must operate in.
* Quantitative measurements of the advantages of virtual
  integration.
* Formal methods for defining and reasoning about internal and
  external interfaces of the system and its parts.
* Cross-domain compositional theories and technologies for CPS.


SUBMISSION

The AVICPS workshop welcomes original contributions on
theoretical foundation, tools, and evaluations.  Of particular
interest are case studies on challenges of expressing properties
of systems in terms of their components and the architecture
that governs their interactions. Both solutions and open problems
are welcome.

Researchers and practitioners are encouraged to submit two types
of papers:

 * Research papers that present novel ideas, mature tools,
   results, and advancement of the state-of-the-art.
 * Position papers that describe ongoing work, less
   mature work, or new research directions.

Submissions should be no more than 8 pages (for research
papers) and 4 pages (for position papers) in two-column format.
Templates and author guidelines are available for LaTeX and
Microsoft Word. All figures and references must fit within the
specified page limits.


PUBLICATION

Authors of accepted papers may choose one of the following
alternatives.

 * To include their paper in formal electronic proceedings
   published by LiU Electronic Press. The proceedings are
   given both ISBN and ISSN numbers. Authors retain the
   copyright of their work.
 * To not include it in the proceedings, thus make it possible
   to refine and submit the work elsewhere. Only a title and a
   short abstract of the paper will be available in the
   proceedings. An informal copy of the accepted paper will
   be available on the AVICPS website.

Regardless of the author's choice of dissemination, the reviewing
process and the presentation time at the workshop will be the same.
For all accepted papers, at least one of the authors must register
and present the paper at the workshop.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission: Sep. 23, 2013
Author Notification: Oct. 28, 2013
Camera Ready: Nov. 10, 2013
AVICPS Workshop: Dec. 3, 2013


WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Program Co-Chairs
* David Broman. UC Berkeley, USA, and Linkoping University, Sweden
* Gabor Karsai. Vanderbilt University, USA

Program Committee
Manfred Broy, Technical University Munich, Germany
Eric Feron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Peter Fritzson,  Linkoping University, Sweden
Jerome Hugues, ISAE, France
Mirko Jakovljevic, TTTech, Austria
Russell Kegley, Lockheed Martin, USA
Doo-Hyun Kim, Konkuk University, South Korea
Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK
Roman Obermaisser, University of Siegen, Germany
Jim Paunicka, Boeing, USA
Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon, USA
Linh Thi Xuan Phan, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Franz Rammig, Univerity of Paderborn, Germany
Walid Taha, Halmstad University, Sweden
Stavros Tripakis, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Shige Wang, GM Research, USA
Michael Whalen, University of Minnesot

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*** EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS MONDAY 6/25 ***

== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2012)
July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Aims and Scope


The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th in a
series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided
formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it
vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification
while
expanding to new domains such as biological systems and computer security.
The
conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete
applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the
algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be invited to a
special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.

** NEW in 2012 **

CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)


Invited Talks

- Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen University
  "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges"

- David Dill, Stanford University
  "Model Checking Cell Biology"

- Alex Haldermann, University of Michigan
  On security of voting machines

Invited Tutorials


- Rastislav Bodik and Emina Torlak, University of California, Berkeley
  "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers"

- Aaron Bradley, University of Colorado at Boulder
  "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"

- Chris Myers, University of Utah
  "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits"

- Michał Moskal, Microsoft Research, Seattle
  "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active verification with VCC"


== CONFERENCE PROGRAM
==

Saturday July 7 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- LfSA 2012 Logics for System Analysis
  Co-chairs: André Platzer, Philipp Rümmer

Sunday July 8 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- BOOGIE 2012 2nd International Workshop on Intermediate Verification
Languages
  Chair: Zvonimir Rakamaric

- REORDER 2012  First International Workshop on Memory Consistency Models
  Co-chairs: Sela Mador-Haim, Jade Alglave

Monday July 9 - INVITED TUTORIALS


  8:30 - 10:00: "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers" (Ras Bodik
and Emina Torlak)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"
(Aaron Bradley)
 12:00 -  1:30: Break
  1:30 -  3:00: "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits" (Chris Myers)
  3:00 -  3:30: Break
  3:30 -  5:00: "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active
verification with VCC" (Michal Moskal)

Tuesday July 10


  8:30 -  9:00: Welcome
  9:00 - 10:00: "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges" (Wolfgang Thomas -
Keynote)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: AUTOMATA AND SYNTHESIS

R1  Jan Kretinsky and Javier Esparza
"Deterministic Automata for the (F,G)-

[TYPES/announce] *** Early registration extended through June 25 *** CAV 2012: Call for Participation

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*** Early registration extended through June 25 ***

== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2012)
July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

*UPDATE* Hotel accommodation is filling up fast. Book your rooms soon!

Aims and Scope


The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th in a
series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided
formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it
vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification
while
expanding to new domains such as biological systems and computer security.
The
conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete
applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the
algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be invited to a
special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.

** NEW in 2012 **

CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)


Invited Talks

- Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen University
  "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges"

- David Dill, Stanford University
  "Model Checking Cell Biology"

- Alex Haldermann, University of Michigan
  On security of voting machines

Invited Tutorials


- Rastislav Bodik and Emina Torlak, University of California, Berkeley
  "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers"

- Aaron Bradley, University of Colorado at Boulder
  "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"

- Chris Myers, University of Utah
  "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits"

- Michał Moskal, Microsoft Research, Seattle
  "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active verification with VCC"


== CONFERENCE PROGRAM
==

Saturday July 7 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- LfSA 2012 Logics for System Analysis
  Co-chairs: André Platzer, Philipp Rümmer

Sunday July 8 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- BOOGIE 2012 2nd International Workshop on Intermediate Verification
Languages
  Chair: Zvonimir Rakamaric

- REORDER 2012  First International Workshop on Memory Consistency Models
  Co-chairs: Sela Mador-Haim, Jade Alglave

Monday July 9 - INVITED TUTORIALS


  8:30 - 10:00: "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers" (Ras Bodik
and Emina Torlak)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"
(Aaron Bradley)
 12:00 -  1:30: Break
  1:30 -  3:00: "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits" (Chris Myers)
  3:00 -  3:30: Break
  3:30 -  5:00: "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active
verification with VCC" (Michal Moskal)

Tuesday July 10


  8:30 -  9:00: Welcome
  9:00 - 10:00: "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges" (Wolfgang Thomas -
Keynote)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: AUTOMATA AND SYNTHESIS

R1 

[TYPES/announce] *** Early registration ends June 20 *** CAV 2012: Call for Participation

2012-06-05 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
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*** Early registration ends June 20 ***

== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2012)
July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Aims and Scope


The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th in a
series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided
formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it
vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification
while
expanding to new domains such as biological systems and computer security.
The
conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete
applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the
algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be invited to a
special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.

** NEW in 2012 **

CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)


Invited Talks

- Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen University
  "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges"

- David Dill, Stanford University
  "Model Checking Cell Biology"

- Alex Haldermann, University of Michigan
  On security of voting machines

Invited Tutorials


- Rastislav Bodik and Emina Torlak, University of California, Berkeley
  "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers"

- Aaron Bradley, University of Colorado at Boulder
  "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"

- Chris Myers, University of Utah
  "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits"

- Michał Moskal, Microsoft Research, Seattle
  "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active verification with VCC"


== CONFERENCE PROGRAM
==

Saturday July 7 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- LfSA 2012 Logics for System Analysis
  Co-chairs: André Platzer, Philipp Rümmer

Sunday July 8 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- BOOGIE 2012 2nd International Workshop on Intermediate Verification
Languages
  Chair: Zvonimir Rakamaric

- REORDER 2012  First International Workshop on Memory Consistency Models
  Co-chairs: Sela Mador-Haim, Jade Alglave

Monday July 9 - INVITED TUTORIALS


  8:30 - 10:00: "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers" (Ras Bodik
and Emina Torlak)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"
(Aaron Bradley)
 12:00 -  1:30: Break
  1:30 -  3:00: "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits" (Chris Myers)
  3:00 -  3:30: Break
  3:30 -  5:00: "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active
verification with VCC" (Michal Moskal)

Tuesday July 10


  8:30 -  9:00: Welcome
  9:00 - 10:00: "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges" (Wolfgang Thomas -
Keynote)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: AUTOMATA AND SYNTHESIS

R1  Jan Kretinsky and Javier Esparza
"Deterministic Automata for the (F,G)-frag

[TYPES/announce] CAV 2012: Call for Participation

2012-05-17 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
[ The Types Forum (announcements only),
 http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ]

== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2012)
July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Aims and Scope


The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th in a
series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided
formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it
vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification
while
expanding to new domains such as biological systems and computer security.
The
conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete
applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the
algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The
proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag
Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be invited to a
special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.

** NEW in 2012 **

CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)


Invited Talks

- Wolfgang Thomas, RWTH Aachen University
  "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges"

- David Dill, Stanford University
  "Model Checking Cell Biology"

- Alex Haldermann, University of Michigan
  On security of voting machines

Invited Tutorials


- Rastislav Bodik and Emina Torlak, University of California, Berkeley
  "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers"

- Aaron Bradley, University of Colorado at Boulder
  "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"

- Chris Myers, University of Utah
  "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits"

- Michał Moskal, Microsoft Research, Seattle
  "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active verification with VCC"


== CONFERENCE PROGRAM
==

Saturday July 7 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- LfSA 2012 Logics for System Analysis
  Co-chairs: André Platzer, Philipp Rümmer

Sunday July 8 - WORKSHOPS


- NSV 2012  5th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
  Co-chairs: Swarat Chaudhuri, Sriram Sankaranarayanan

- (EC)^2 2012 Workshop on Exploiting Concurrency Efficiently and Correctly
  Co-chairs: Sebastian Burckhardt, Azadeh Farzan, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan,
 Stephen Siegel, Helmut Veith, Josef Widder

- SYNT 2012 1st Workshop on Synthesis
  Co-chairs: Doron Peled, Sven Schewe

- AMFSB 2012  Applications of Formal Methods in Systems Biology
  Co-chairs: Vincent Danos, Mahesh Viswanathan

- BOOGIE 2012 2nd International Workshop on Intermediate Verification
Languages
  Chair: Zvonimir Rakamaric

- REORDER 2012  First International Workshop on Memory Consistency Models
  Co-chairs: Sela Mador-Haim, Jade Alglave

Monday July 9 - INVITED TUTORIALS


  8:30 - 10:00: "Synthesizing Programs with Constraint Solvers" (Ras Bodik
and Emina Torlak)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: "IC3 and Beyond: Incremental, Inductive Verification"
(Aaron Bradley)
 12:00 -  1:30: Break
  1:30 -  3:00: "Formal Verification of Genetic Circuits" (Chris Myers)
  3:00 -  3:30: Break
  3:30 -  5:00: "From C to infinity and back: Unbounded auto-active
verification with VCC" (Michal Moskal)

Tuesday July 10


  8:30 -  9:00: Welcome
  9:00 - 10:00: "Synthesis and Some of Its Challenges" (Wolfgang Thomas -
Keynote)
 10:00 - 10:30: Break
 10:30 - 12:00: AUTOMATA AND SYNTHESIS

R1  Jan Kretinsky and Javier Esparza
"Deterministic Automata for the (F,G)-fragment of LTL"

R2  Tomas Brazdil, Kris

[TYPES/announce] CAV 2012: Final Call For Papers

2012-01-12 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
[ The Types Forum (announcements only),
 http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ]

== CALL FOR PAPERS ==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV
2012) July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Aims and Scope
---
The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th
in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software
systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in
hardware and software verification while expanding to new domains such
as biological systems and computer security. The conference covers the
spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an
emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and
techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings
of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be
invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the
Journal of the ACM.

Topics of interest include:
- Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
- Hardware verification techniques
- Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
- Deductive, compositional, and abstraction techniques for verification
- Program analysis and software verification
- Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology
- Verification methods for parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
- Applications and case studies in verification
- Verification in industrial practice
- Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
- Verification techniques for security
- Formal models and methods for biological systems

** NEW in 2012 **
CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)

Submissions in these four topics are especially encouraged.
Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review
process as other papers.
Accepted special track papers will be organized into special sessions
that are highlighted in the program.

Events
-
The conference will include the following events:
* Pre-conference workshops on July 7-8.
* The main conference will take place July 9th-13th:
  -- Invited tutorials on July 9th.
  -- Technical sessions on July 10-13.
Please see the conference website for further details.

Paper Submission

There are two categories of submissions:

A. Regular Papers: Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should contain original research, and
sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the
contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are
strongly encouraged to make their data available with their
submission. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial
context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses,
and strengths in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other
conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has
already been published elsewhere is not allowed.

B. Tool Presentations: Submissions, not exceeding six (6) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should describe the implemented tool and its
novel features.  An appendix that will not be part of the published
presentation may be added for use in the program committee selection
process.  A demonstration, in a separate demonstration session, is
expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools
that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted
only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported
and implemented.

Papers exceeding the stated maximum length run the risk of rejection
without review.
Note that the page limit for submissions has been increased to 16
pages. For regular papers, an appendix can be joined to the
submissions providing additional material such as details on proofs or
experiments. The appendix is not guaranteed to be read or taken into
account by the reviewers and it should not contain information
necessary to the understanding and the evaluation of the presented
work. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where
authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission is done with
EasyChair. Information about the submission procedure will be
available at: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Important Dates
- Abstract submission: January 15, 2012
- Paper submission (firm): January 22, 2012 at 23:59 Samoa time (UTC/GMT-11)
- Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 7-9, 2012
- Notification of accep

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== CALL FOR PAPERS ==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV
2012) July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Aims and Scope
---
The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th
in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software
systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in
hardware and software verification while expanding to new domains such
as biological systems and computer security. The conference covers the
spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an
emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and
techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings
of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be
invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the
Journal of the ACM.

Topics of interest include:
- Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
- Hardware verification techniques
- Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
- Deductive, compositional, and abstraction techniques for verification
- Program analysis and software verification
- Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology
- Verification methods for parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
- Applications and case studies in verification
- Verification in industrial practice
- Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
- Verification techniques for security
- Formal models and methods for biological systems

** NEW in 2012 **
CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)

Submissions in these four topics are especially encouraged.
Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review
process as other papers.
Accepted special track papers will be organized into special sessions
that are highlighted in the program.

Events
-
The conference will include the following events:
* Pre-conference workshops on July 7-8.
* The main conference will take place July 9th-13th:
  -- Invited tutorials on July 9th.
  -- Technical sessions on July 10-13.
Please see the conference website for further details.

Paper Submission

There are two categories of submissions:

A. Regular Papers: Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should contain original research, and
sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the
contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are
strongly encouraged to make their data available with their
submission. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial
context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses,
and strengths in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other
conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has
already been published elsewhere is not allowed.

B. Tool Presentations: Submissions, not exceeding six (6) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should describe the implemented tool and its
novel features.  An appendix that will not be part of the published
presentation may be added for use in the program committee selection
process.  A demonstration, in a separate demonstration session, is
expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools
that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted
only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported
and implemented.

Papers exceeding the stated maximum length run the risk of rejection
without review.
Note that the page limit for submissions has been increased to 16
pages. For regular papers, an appendix can be joined to the
submissions providing additional material such as details on proofs or
experiments. The appendix is not guaranteed to be read or taken into
account by the reviewers and it should not contain information
necessary to the understanding and the evaluation of the presented
work. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where
authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission is done with
EasyChair. Information about the submission procedure will be
available at: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Important Dates
- Abstract submission: January 15, 2012
- Paper submission (firm): January 22, 2012 at 23:59 Samoa time (UTC/GMT-11)
- Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 7-9, 2012
- Notification of accep

[TYPES/announce] CAV 2012: Call For Workshops

2011-10-25 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
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  * CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ***


  24th International Conference on
 Computer Aided Verification
  CAV 2012
   July 7-13, 2012
Berkeley, California, USA


Workshop Chair: Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

The 2012 Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) Workshops provide an
opportunity for participants to discuss topics in the broader
verification related domains. CAV 2012 Workshops will be held
before the main conference on July 7 and 8.

Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Workshop chair along with
the program chairs and members of the steering committee. Proposals
must consist of the following two parts:

-- Part I: Technical Information --

A short (about 1 page) scientific justification of the proposed
topic, its significance and relevance to CAV, and the particular
benefits of the workshop to the verification community, as well as a
list of previous or related workshops (if relevant).

-- Part II: Organizational Information --

- contact information of the workshop organizers
- identifying a main contact for the workshop (i.e. a workshop chair)
- the desired length of the workshop, (one or two days)
- estimate of the audience size
- proposed format and agenda  (for example, demo sessions, tutorials, etc.)
- potential invited speakers
- procedures for selecting papers and participants
- plans for dissemination, if any (for example, special issues of
  journals)
- special technical, AV, or USB stick needs
- links to a preliminary website of the workshop and call for
  papers (if possible)
- information if workshop has been previously held


Important Dates:

Proposals are due by Nov 10th, 2011 by email to the Workshop
chair. Organizers will be notified by Nov 20th, 2011.

The workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated on the following
criteria:

* Potential to advance state of the art in verification technologies,
especially ability to break new ground.
* Relevance to CAV.
* Overlap of topics with other proposed workshops.
* Past-successes of the workshop and association with previous CAV
conferences.
* Organizers' ability and experience to lead a successful workshop.

All accepted workshops will be asked to provide a webpage, call for
papers, and list of invited speakers. The workshop participants will
be required to register for the workshop through the CAV main
registration page.

The registration rates for workshops will be set by CAV organizers in
consultation with the workshop organizers, following rate structures
similar to (but not the same as) those followed in the past. The
workshop organizers are strongly encouraged to seek external funding
and sponsorships.

For further enquiries or information, please contact:

Shuvendu Lahiri (CAV2012 Workshop Chair)
Microsoft Research,
One Microsoft Way,
Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Phone: 1-425-722-4122
email: shuvendu AT microsoft.com
http: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/shuvendu/
-


[TYPES/announce] CAV 2012: Call For Papers

2011-10-25 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
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 http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ]

== CALL FOR PAPERS ==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV
2012) July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Aims and Scope
---
The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th
in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software
systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in
hardware and software verification while expanding to new domains such
as biological systems and computer security. The conference covers the
spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an
emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and
techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings
of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be
invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the
Journal of the ACM.

Topics of interest include:
- Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
- Hardware verification techniques
- Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
- Deductive, compositional, and abstraction techniques for verification
- Program analysis and software verification
- Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology
- Verification methods for parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
- Applications and case studies in verification
- Verification in industrial practice
- Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
- Verification techniques for security
- Formal models and methods for biological systems

** NEW in 2012 **
CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)

Submissions in these four topics are especially encouraged.
Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review
process as other papers.
Accepted special track papers will be organized into special sessions
that are highlighted in the program.

Events
-
The conference will include the following events:
* Pre-conference workshops on July 7-8.
* The main conference will take place July 9th-13th:
  -- Invited tutorials on July 9th.
  -- Technical sessions on July 10-13.
Please see the conference website for further details.

Paper Submission

There are two categories of submissions:

A. Regular Papers: Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should contain original research, and
sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the
contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are
strongly encouraged to make their data available with their
submission. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial
context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses,
and strengths in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other
conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has
already been published elsewhere is not allowed.

B. Tool Presentations: Submissions, not exceeding six (6) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should describe the implemented tool and its
novel features.  An appendix that will not be part of the published
presentation may be added for use in the program committee selection
process.  A demonstration, in a separate demonstration session, is
expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools
that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted
only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported
and implemented.

Papers exceeding the stated maximum length run the risk of rejection
without review.
Note that the page limit for submissions has been increased to 16
pages. For regular papers, an appendix can be joined to the
submissions providing additional material such as details on proofs or
experiments. The appendix is not guaranteed to be read or taken into
account by the reviewers and it should not contain information
necessary to the understanding and the evaluation of the presented
work. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where
authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission is done with
EasyChair. Information about the submission procedure will be
available at: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Important Dates
- Abstract submission: January 15, 2012
- Paper submission (firm): January 22, 2012 at 23:59 Samoa time (UTC/GMT-11)
- Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 7-9, 2012
- Notification of accep

[TYPES/announce] CAV 2012: Call For Workshops

2011-10-08 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
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  * CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ***


  24th International Conference on
 Computer Aided Verification
  CAV 2012
   July 7-13, 2012
Berkeley, California, USA


Workshop Chair: Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research, Redmond)

The 2012 Computer-Aided Verification (CAV) Workshops provide an
opportunity for participants to discuss topics in the broader
verification related domains. CAV 2012 Workshops will be held
before the main conference on July 7 and 8.

Workshop proposals will be reviewed by the Workshop chair along with
the program chairs and members of the steering committee. Proposals
must consist of the following two parts:

-- Part I: Technical Information --

A short (about 1 page) scientific justification of the proposed
topic, its significance and relevance to CAV, and the particular
benefits of the workshop to the verification community, as well as a
list of previous or related workshops (if relevant).

-- Part II: Organizational Information --

- contact information of the workshop organizers
- identifying a main contact for the workshop (i.e. a workshop chair)
- the desired length of the workshop, (one or two days)
- estimate of the audience size
- proposed format and agenda  (for example, demo sessions, tutorials, etc.)
- potential invited speakers
- procedures for selecting papers and participants
- plans for dissemination, if any (for example, special issues of
  journals)
- special technical, AV, or USB stick needs
- links to a preliminary website of the workshop and call for
  papers (if possible)
- information if workshop has been previously held


Important Dates:

Proposals are due by Nov 10th, 2011 by email to the Workshop
chair. Organizers will be notified by Nov 20th, 2011.

The workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated on the following
criteria:

* Potential to advance state of the art in verification technologies,
especially ability to break new ground.
* Relevance to CAV.
* Overlap of topics with other proposed workshops.
* Past-successes of the workshop and association with previous CAV
conferences.
* Organizers' ability and experience to lead a successful workshop.

All accepted workshops will be asked to provide a webpage, call for
papers, and list of invited speakers. The workshop participants will
be required to register for the workshop through the CAV main
registration page.

The registration rates for workshops will be set by CAV organizers in
consultation with the workshop organizers, following rate structures
similar to (but not the same as) those followed in the past. The
workshop organizers are strongly encouraged to seek external funding
and sponsorships.

For further enquiries or information, please contact:

Shuvendu Lahiri (CAV2012 Workshop Chair)
Microsoft Research,
One Microsoft Way,
Redmond, WA 98052, USA
Phone: 1-425-722-4122
email: shuvendu AT microsoft.com
http: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/shuvendu/
-


[TYPES/announce] CAV 2012: Call For Papers

2011-10-06 Thread CAV 2012 CFP
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== CALL FOR PAPERS ==
24th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV
2012) July 7-13, 2012 Berkeley, California, USA

Program Chairs: Madhusudan Parathasarathy and Sanjit A. Seshia
Website: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Aims and Scope
---
The conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV), 2012, is the 24th
in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of
computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software
systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in
hardware and software verification while expanding to new domains such
as biological systems and computer security. The conference covers the
spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an
emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and
techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings
of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. A selection of papers will be
invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the
Journal of the ACM.

Topics of interest include:
- Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
- Hardware verification techniques
- Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
- Deductive, compositional, and abstraction techniques for verification
- Program analysis and software verification
- Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology
- Verification methods for parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
- Applications and case studies in verification
- Verification in industrial practice
- Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
- Verification techniques for security
- Formal models and methods for biological systems

** NEW in 2012 **
CAV will have *special tracks* in the following four areas:
1. Hardware Verification (track chair: Andreas Kuehlmann)
2. Computer Security  (track chair: Somesh Jha)
3. Embedded Systems (track chair: Stavros Tripakis)
4. SAT and SMT (track chair: Daniel Kroening)

Submissions in these four topics are especially encouraged.
Papers in these areas will be subject to the same rigorous review
process as other papers.
Accepted special track papers will be organized into special sessions
that are highlighted in the program.

Events
-
The conference will include the following events:
* Pre-conference workshops on July 7-8.
* The main conference will take place July 9th-13th:
  -- Invited tutorials on July 9th.
  -- Technical sessions on July 10-13.
Please see the conference website for further details.

Paper Submission

There are two categories of submissions:

A. Regular Papers: Submissions, not exceeding sixteen (16) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should contain original research, and
sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the
contribution. For papers reporting experimental results, authors are
strongly encouraged to make their data available with their
submission. Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial
context are strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses,
and strengths in sufficient depth. Simultaneous submission to other
conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has
already been published elsewhere is not allowed.

B. Tool Presentations: Submissions, not exceeding six (6) pages using
Springer's LNCS format, should describe the implemented tool and its
novel features.  An appendix that will not be part of the published
presentation may be added for use in the program committee selection
process.  A demonstration, in a separate demonstration session, is
expected to accompany a tool presentation. Papers describing tools
that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted
only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported
and implemented.

Papers exceeding the stated maximum length run the risk of rejection
without review.
Note that the page limit for submissions has been increased to 16
pages. For regular papers, an appendix can be joined to the
submissions providing additional material such as details on proofs or
experiments. The appendix is not guaranteed to be read or taken into
account by the reviewers and it should not contain information
necessary to the understanding and the evaluation of the presented
work. The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where
authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission is done with
EasyChair. Information about the submission procedure will be
available at: http://cav12.cs.illinois.edu/

Important Dates
- Abstract submission: January 15, 2012
- Paper submission (firm): January 22, 2012 at 23:59 Samoa time (UTC/GMT-11)
- Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 7-9, 2012
- Notification of accep

[TYPES/announce] FOPARA'09 -- First Call for Papers

2009-05-11 Thread CFP
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   First Call for Papers
   International workshop on
   FOUNDATIONAL AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS OF RESOURCE ANALYSIS
   FOPARA 2009
   Eindhoven, The Netherlands
   November,3 2009
   A satellite event of 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods
   http://www.aha.cs.ru.nl/fopara/


   WORKSHOP OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE

The workshop serves as a forum for presenting original research results 
that are relevant to the analysis of resource (time, space) consumption 
by computer programs. The workshop aims to bring together the
researchers that work on foundational issues with the researchers that
focus more on practical results. Therefore, both theoretical and
practical contributions are encouraged. The following list of topics is
non-exhaustive:

* resource analysis for embedded systems,
* logical and machine-independent characterisations 
  of complexity classes,
* logics closely related to complexity classes,
* type systems for controlling complexity,
* semantic methods to analyse resources, incl. quasi- and sup-
  interpretations,
* practical applications of resource analysis. 

Up to now a few similar events have taken place. In 2006, 2008
application-oriented resource analysis workshops ( EmBounded Open
Workshop in Budapest, 2006, and Resource Analysis Workshop in
Hertfordshir, 2008) were held as affiliated events of International
Symposium on the Implementation and Application of Functional Languages
(IFL). Participated: University of St. Andrew (UK), Heriot-Watt
University of Edinburgh (UK), Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich
(Germany), University Complutense of Madrid (Spain), Politechnical
University of Madrid (Spain). Another large group of research schools is
presented in series of workshops on Implicit Computational Complexity,
see, for instance, WICC'08 in Paris . The series gather researchers
working in theoretical foundations of resource analysis, mainly from in
France (Universities of Paris Diderot and Paris Nord, LORIA Nancy),
Italy (Universities of Bologna and Turin), Norway, Germany and
Portugal. FOPARA aims to bringing these various directions in resource
analysis together and possibly to extend the community by other groups. 



  IMPORTANT DATES (ALL 2009)

* Abstract deadline: July 10,
* Paper submission deadline: July 15, 
* Notification of acceptance: September 11, 
* Workshop version of the papers: October 11, 
* Final formal paper submission: November 22.

  INVITED SPEAKER

Sumit Gulwani (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/sumitg/),
Microsoft Research
  

  SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Acceptance of articles for presentation at the symposium is based on the
pre-workshop refereeing  of full papers (16 pages).

In addition to the draft symposium proceedings, we plan to publish the
revised versions of presented at the workshop papers in a volume of
Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The request for a volume
is pending.


  PROGRAM COMMITTEE

  * Marko van Eekelen (Radboud University and Open University, NL), PC
chair
  * Olha Shkaravska (Radboud University, NL), PC co-chair
  * Patrick Baillot (ENS-Lyon, France)
  * Armelle Bonenfant (IRIT, France)
  * Ugo Dal Lago (University of Bologna, Italy)
  * Kevin Hammond (Univ. of St. Andrews, UK)
  * Martin Hofmann (LMU, Munich, Germany)
  * Thomas Jensen (IRISA, Rennes, France)
  * Tamas Kozsik (Eotvos Lorand University of Budapest, Hungary)
  * Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (LMU, Munich, Germany)
  * Kenneth MacKenzie (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  * Jean-Yves Marion (Loria, Nancy, France)
  * Greg Michaelson (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK)
  * Ricardo Peña (University Complutense Madrid, Spain)
  * German Puebla (Politechnical University of Madrid, Spain)
  * Luca Roversi (University of Turin, Italy)
  * Phil Trinder (Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK) 
  
  LOCATION

The workshop is a satellite event of the 16th International Symposium on
Formal Methods, FM2009. The venue for FM2009 is the Auditorium of the
Technische  Universiteit Eindhoven. Everything related to the symposium
will take place here, including workshops, lunches, and other
activities.


Technische Universiteit Eindhoven was founded in the 1950s on a patch of
uncultivated land near the centre of town. Due to this fortunate
circumstance, the university campus is now right in the middle of the
fifth largest city in the Netherlands. This means that the railway
station, the conference hotels, and other facilities are all within
walking distance of the campus, and that during your stay you will have
easy access to everything Eindhoven  has to offer.


[TYPES/announce] ICLP 2009: Call for Workshop Proposals

2009-02-09 Thread cfp
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 *** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ***

  ICLP 2009
   
 25th International Conference on Logic Programming

  Pasadena, California, USA
   July 14-17, 2009

  URL: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/



ICLP 2009, the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming, will
be held in Pasadena (USA), from July 14 to 17, 2009.

Workshops  co-located with  international conferences  are one  of the
best venue  for the presentation  and discussion of  preliminary work,
novel ideas, and new open  problems to a wide and interested audience.
Co-located  workshops  also  provide  an  opportunity  for  presenting
specialized  topics and  opportunities for  intensive  discussions and
project collaboration.   The topics  of the workshops  co-located with
ICLP 2009  can cover  any areas related  to logic  programming, (e.g.,
theory,  implementation,  environments,  language issues,  alternative
paradigms,   applications),including   cross-disciplinary   areas.
However, any workshop proposal will be considered.

The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organizers,
but ample time  must be allowed for general  discussion. Workshops can
vary in length, but the optimal duration  will be half a day or a full
day.


Workshop Proposal:
==

Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2009 are invited
to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be in English and
about two pages in length. They should contain:

  * The title of the workshop.

  * A  brief  technical  description  of  the topics  covered  by  the
workshop.

  * A discussion of the timeliness and relevance of the workshop.

  * A list of some related workshops held in the last years.

  * The  (preliminary) required  number of  half-days allotted  to the
workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees.

  * The  names, affiliation,  and  contact details  (email, web  page,
phone,  fax)   of  the  workshop  organizer(s)   together  with  a
designated contact person.

  * The previous  experience of  the workshop organizing  committee in
workshop/conference organization.

Proposals are expected in ASCII or PDF format. All proposals should be
submitted to  the Workshop Chair  (Manuel Carro) by email  by February
9th, 2009.


Reviewing Process:
==

Each submitted  proposal is  reviewed by the  Workshops Chair  and the
Conference  Program Chairs. Proposals  that appear  well-organized and
that fit the  goals and scope of ICLP will  be selected.  The decision
will be  notified by  email to the  responsible organizer  by February
23rd, 2009.

The definitive length of the workshop will be planned according to the
number of submissions received  by the different workshops.  For every
accepted workshop,  the ICLP local  organizers will prepare  a meeting
place and arrange the  distribution of the workshop proceedings, whose
preparation  is however  in charge  to the  workshop  organizers.  The
workshop  registration   fees  will  be  handled   together  with  the
conference fees.


Workshop Organizers' Tasks:
===

  * Producing a "Call  for Papers" for the workshop  and posting it on
the net and/or  other means.  Please provide a  web page URL which
can be linked into the ICLP 2009 home page by March 9th, 2009.

  * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference
program.

  * Reviewing/accepting submitted papers.

  * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local
organizers and the workshop chair.

  * Sending workshop program and workshop proceedings in pdf format to
the workshop chair for distribution at the conference.

  * The  use  of the  Computing  Research  Repository  (CoRR) for  the
workshop proceedingsis strongly suggested. See
http://www.logicprogramming.org/  for  guidelines.   We  encourage
reading these  instructions in advance  so that you can  ask paper
authors to prepare accordingly the final versions of their papers.


Location:
=

All workshops will take place in Pasadena at the site of the main
conference. See the ICLP 2009 web site for location details.


Important Dates:


February  9,   2009: Proposal submission deadline.
February 23,   2009: Notification.
March 9,   2009: Deadline to receive the CFP and URL for workshop web page.
June  1,   2009: Deadline for preliminary proceedings.
July  14-17,   2009: ICLP 2009 workshops.


Workshop Chair:
===

Manuel Carro  [mcarro AT fi dot upm dot es] (www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~mcarro)


[TYPES/announce] Postdoc Positions at the CLIP group, Spain

2009-02-04 Thread CFP
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**
   Application deadline 13th of February (for the 5 years position)
   and 18th of February (for the 3 years position)
**

The CLIP  (Computational Logic, Implementation  and Parallelism) group
is searching for candidates for postdoctoral research positions in the
research  areas in  which the  group is  involved. A  PhD  in Computer
Science or related areas is required.

These are  research positions (no teaching is  compulsory, although it
is allowed) and  renewable for up to 3 or 5  years. The initial salary
(for the 5 year positions)  is 44370 Euros/year plus an initial budget
of  15000  Euros  for  travel  and other  expenses  during  the  first
year. Knowledge of  Spanish is not a prerequisite  for application and
candidates can be of any nationality. The working language at the CLIP
group for research is English.

The  number of  positions  available  depends on  the  quality of  the
applicants.  The positions are  co-funded by  the Spanish  Ministry of
Science and  Technology and the Technical University  of Madrid within
the Ramon y Cajal and Juan de la Cierva programs.

Selection Process:

Interested  applicants should  send their  c.v. and  a  description of
their researchinterests tothe CLIP groupat
hats-gra...@clip.dia.fi.upm.es.   The   CLIP  group  will   perform  a
pre-selection of the best  applicants based on their scientific merits
and the  relevance of their  research interests and experience  to the
research activities of the group.  The CLIP group will then assist the
pre-selected candidates in accomplishing all required steps to present
the  required  documentation  for  the  final  evaluation  step.   The
applications, will then be sent to the Spanish Ministry of Science and
Technology  which performs the  final selection.  The details  of this
step are described here.

  http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/Job_Openings/RyC2009.html

More details  on the CLIP group, publications,  projects, and research
areas of  interest can be  found at our  WWW site (see e.g.  the group
description and the listing of research topics and publications):

 http://clip.dia.fi.upm.es/

For   more  information   on  any   of  the   above,   please  contact
hats-gra...@clip.dia.fi.upm.es

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[TYPES/announce] ICLP 2009: Call for workshop proposals

2009-01-20 Thread cfp
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), 
 http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ]


 *** CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS ***

  ICLP 2009
   
 25th International Conference on Logic Programming

  Pasadena, California, USA
   July 14-17, 2009

  URL: http://www.ist.unomaha.edu/iclp2009/



ICLP 2009, the 25th International Conference on Logic Programming,
will
be held in Pasadena (USA), from July 14 to 17, 2009.

Workshops  co-located with  international conferences  are one  of the
best venue  for the presentation  and discussion of  preliminary work,
novel ideas, and new open  problems to a wide and interested audience.
Co-located  workshops  also  provide  an  opportunity  for  presenting
specialized  topics and  opportunities for  intensive  discussions and
project collaboration.   The topics  of the workshops  co-located with
ICLP 2009  can cover  any areas related  to logic  programming, (e.g.,
theory,  implementation,  environments,  language issues,  alternative
paradigms,   applications),including   cross-disciplinary   areas.
However, any workshop proposal will be considered.

The format of the workshop will be decided by the workshop organizers,
but ample time  must be allowed for general  discussion. Workshops can
vary in length, but the optimal duration  will be half a day or a full
day.


Workshop Proposal:
==

Those interested in organizing a workshop at ICLP 2009 are invited
to submit a workshop proposal. Proposals should be in English and
about two pages in length. They should contain:

  * The title of the workshop.

  * A  brief  technical  description  of  the topics  covered  by  the
workshop.

  * A discussion of the timeliness and relevance of the workshop.

  * A list of some related workshops held in the last years.

  * The  (preliminary) required  number of  half-days allotted  to the
workshop and an estimate of the number of expected attendees.

  * The  names, affiliation,  and  contact details  (email, web  page,
phone,  fax)   of  the  workshop  organizer(s)   together  with  a
designated contact person.

  * The previous  experience of  the workshop organizing  committee in
workshop/conference organization.

Proposals are expected in ASCII or PDF format. All proposals should be
submitted to  the Workshop Chair  (Manuel Carro) by email  by February
9th, 2009.


Reviewing Process:
==

Each submitted  proposal is  reviewed by the  Workshops Chair  and the
Conference  Program Chairs. Proposals  that appear  well-organized and
that fit the  goals and scope of ICLP will  be selected.  The decision
will be  notified by  email to the  responsible organizer  by February
23rd, 2009.

The definitive length of the workshop will be planned according to the
number of submissions received  by the different workshops.  For every
accepted workshop,  the ICLP local  organizers will prepare  a meeting
place and arrange the  distribution of the workshop proceedings, whose
preparation  is however  in charge  to the  workshop  organizers.  The
workshop  registration   fees  will  be  handled   together  with  the
conference fees.


Workshop Organizers' Tasks:
===

  * Producing a "Call  for Papers" for the workshop  and posting it on
the net and/or  other means.  Please provide a  web page URL which
can be linked into the ICLP 2009 home page by March 9th, 2009.

  * Providing a brief description of the workshop for the conference
program.

  * Reviewing/accepting submitted papers.

  * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the local
organizers and the workshop chair.

  * Sending workshop program and workshop proceedings in pdf format to
the workshop chair for distribution at the conference.

  * The  use  of the  Computing  Research  Repository  (CoRR) for  the
workshop proceedingsis strongly suggested. See
http://www.logicprogramming.org/  for  guidelines.   We  encourage
reading these  instructions in advance  so that you can  ask paper
authors to prepare accordingly the final versions of their papers.


Location:
=

All workshops will take place in Pasadena at the site of the main
conference. See the ICLP 2009 web site for location details.


Important Dates:


February  9,   2009: Proposal submission deadline.
February 23,   2009: Notification.
March 9,   2009: Deadline to receive the CFP and URL for the web
 page of the workshop
June  1,   2009: Deadline for preliminary proceedings.
July  14-17,   2009: ICLP 2009 workshops.


Workshop Chair:
===

Manuel Carro  [mcarro AT fi dot upm dot es] (www.clip.dia.fi.upm.es/~mcarro)