[TYPES/announce] Special Issue of Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] - Special Issue of THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems http://qav.comlab.ox.ac.uk/qapl10/special_issue.html -- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS We invite the submission of papers on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). Papers are welcome which are revised versions of the works submitted to and presented at the QAPL 2010 Workshop, Paphos, Cyprus, March 27-28. We will also welcome submissions of papers not presented at QAPL 2010, provided they fall into the scope of the call and contain a clear and novel contribution to the field. SCOPE Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes essential in characterising the behaviour and determining the properties of systems. They are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for reliability, risk and trust). Such quantities play a central role in defining both the model of systems (architecture, language design, semantics) and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and verification of system properties. This special issue will be devoted to research papers which discuss the explicit use of quantitative information such as time and probabilities either directly in the model or as a tool for the analysis of systems. In particular, contributions should focus on * the design of probabilistic and real-time languages and the definition of semantical models for such languages; * the discussion of methodologies for the analysis of probabilistic an timing properties (e.g. security, safety, schedulability) and of other quantifiable properties such as reliability (for hardware components), trustworthiness (in information security) and resource usage (e.g. worst-case memory/stack/cache requirements); * the probabilistic analysis of systems which do not explicitly incorporate quantitative aspects (e.g. performance, reliability and risk analysis); * applications to safety-critical systems, communication protocols, control systems, asynchronous hardware, and to any other domain involving quantitative issues. * the investigation of computational models and paradigms involving quantitative aspects, such as those arising in quantum computation, systems biology, bioinformatics, etc. TOPICS Topics include (but are not limited to) probabilistic, timing and general quantitative aspects in: Language design, Information systems, Asynchronous HW analysis, Language extension, Multi-tasking systems, Automated reasoning, Language expressiveness, Logic, Verification, Quantum languages, Semantics, Testing, Time-critical systems, Performance analysis, Safety, Embedded systems, Program analysis, Risk and hazard analysis, Coordination models, Protocol analysis, Scheduling theory, Distributed systems, Model-checking, Security, Biological systems, Concurrent systems, and Resource analysis. SUBMISSIONS Papers should be 20-25 pages long, including appendices, and should be formatted according to Elsevier's elsart document style used for articles in the Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (see the Guide for Authors at http://ees.elsevier.com/tcs/). Details on the submission procedure will be made available from the webpage http://qav.comlab.ox.ac.uk/qapl10/special_issue.html. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: 15 November 2010 * Notification: 15 February 2011 EDITORS Alessandra Di Pierro University of Verona, Italy alessandra.dipie...@univr.it Gethin Norman University of Glasgow, UK gethin.nor...@gla.ac.uk
[TYPES/announce] Special Issue of Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems
[ The Types Forum (announcements only), http://lists.seas.upenn.edu/mailman/listinfo/types-announce ] Special Issue of THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems http://qav.comlab.ox.ac.uk/qapl10 CALL FOR PAPERS We invite the submission of papers on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages and Systems for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (TCS). Papers are welcome which are revised versions of the works submitted to and presented at the QAPL 2010 Workshop, Paphos, Cyprus, March 27-28. We will also welcome submissions of papers not presented at QAPL 2010, provided they fall into the scope of the call and contain a clear and novel contribution to the field. SCOPE Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes essential in characterising the behaviour and determining the properties of systems. They are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for reliability, risk and trust). Such quantities play a central role in defining both the model of systems (architecture, language design, semantics) and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and verification of system properties. This special issue will be devoted to research papers which discuss the explicit use of quantitative information such as time and probabilities either directly in the model or as a tool for the analysis of systems. In particular, contributions should focus on * the design of probabilistic and real-time languages and the definition of semantical models for such languages; * the discussion of methodologies for the analysis of probabilistic an timing properties (e.g. security, safety, schedulability) and of other quantifiable properties such as reliability (for hardware components), trustworthiness (in information security) and resource usage (e.g. worst-case memory/stack/cache requirements); * the probabilistic analysis of systems which do not explicitly incorporate quantitative aspects (e.g. performance, reliability and risk analysis); * applications to safety-critical systems, communication protocols, control systems, asynchronous hardware, and to any other domain involving quantitative issues. * the investigation of computational models and paradigms involving quantitative aspects, such as those arising in quantum computation, systems biology, bioinformatics, etc. TOPICS Topics include (but are not limited to) probabilistic, timing and general quantitative aspects in: Language design, Information systems, Asynchronous HW analysis, Language extension, Multi-tasking systems, Automated reasoning, Language expressiveness, Logic, Verification, Quantum languages, Semantics, Testing, Time-critical systems, Performance analysis, Safety, Embedded systems, Program analysis, Risk and hazard analysis, Coordination models, Protocol analysis, Scheduling theory, Distributed systems, Model-checking, Security, Biological systems, Concurrent systems, and Resource analysis. SUBMISSIONS Papers should be 20-25 pages long, including appendices, and should be formatted according to Elsevier's elsart document style used for articles in the Journal of Theoretical Computer Science (see the Guide for Authors at http://ees.elsevier.com/tcs/). Details on the submission procedure will be made available from the webpage http://qav.comlab.ox.ac.uk/qapl10/special_issue.html. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper submission: 15 November 2010 * Notification: 15 February 2011 EDITORS Alessandra Di Pierro University of Verona, Italy alessandra.dipie...@univr.it Gethin Norman University of Glasgow, UK get...@dcs.gla.ac.uk
