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CALL FOR PAPERS
iFM 2020
16th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods
16-20 November 2020, Lugano, Switzerland
https://ifm20.si.usi.ch/
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=== COVID-19 ===
Due to the disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we have decided that iFM 2020 will not take place physically and will be replaced by a virtual event. However, the paper selection process will not be affected: an LNCS proceedings will be prepared as usual. We will announce the plans for how the virtual conference will take place in the following weeks (in time for the paper submission deadline).
Authors of all of accepted papers:
- must present in the virtual conference in 2020 (either a live presentation, or pre-recorded talk)
- may, at their discretion, also present in person in 2021
=== Important dates ===
Abstract submission: 15 June 2020
Paper submission: 22 June 2020
Notification: 14 August 2020
Co-located events: 16-17 November 2020
Main conference: 18-20 November 2020
Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.
Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2020
=== Objectives and scope ===
In recent years, we have witnessed a proliferation of approaches that integrate several modelling, verification and simulation techniques, facilitating more versatile and efficient analysis of software-intensive systems. These approaches provide powerful support for the analysis of different functional and non-functional properties of the systems, complex interaction of components of different nature as well as validation of diverse aspects of system behaviour. The iFM conference series is a forum for discussing recent research advances in the development of integrated approaches to formal modelling and analysis. The conference covers all aspects of the design of integrated techniques, including language design, verification and validation, automated tool support and the use of such techniques in software engineering practice.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Formal and semi-formal modelling notations
- Combining formal methods with different simulation and system analysis techniques
- Program verification, model checking, and static analysis
- Theorem proving, decision procedures, SAT/SMT solving
- Runtime analysis, monitoring, and testing
- Program synthesis
- Analysis and synthesis of hybrid, embedded, probabilistic, distributed, or concurrent systems
- Abstraction and refinement
- Model learning and inference
- Approaches to integrating formal methods into software engineering practice
=== Submission guidelines ===
iFM 2020 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the overall theme of formal method integration.
We accept papers in the following categories:
(1) Regular papers (limit 18 pages) on
- original scientific research results
- tools, their foundation and evaluations
- applications of formal methods, including rigorous evaluations
(2) Short papers (limit 8 pages) on
- any subject of interest in the area of formal methods that can be described with sufficient detail within the page limit
Page limits include bibliography. Appendices may be included, which will only be read by a reviewer at their discretion.
Regular and short papers submitted in categories (1) and (2) must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers in these two categories will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.
Submissions for both categories should be made using the iFM 2020 Easychair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2020
Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files.
Springer requires that authors should consult Springer’s authors’ guidelines (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/svproc/guidelines/Springer_Guidelines_for_Authors_of_Proceedings.pdf) and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip) or for Word (ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llnc/word/splnproc1703.zip), for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs (https://goo.gl/hbsa4D) in their papers. After a paper is accepted, the corresponding author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.
The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A special issue of the Formal Aspects of Computing - FAOC journal (https://link.springer.com/journal/165) is planned for extended versions of selected papers from iFM 2020.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early registration date, and present the paper. Since iFM 2020 will be a virtual conference, presentations will take place online. The conference organisation will define details and schedule of the virtual event and communicate them to authors.
=== Organisation ===
= General chair =
Carlo A. Furia (Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland)
= PC chairs =
Brijesh Dongol (University of Surrey, UK)
Elena Troubitsyna (KTH, Sweden)
= Local Organisation =
Web Chair
Mohammad Rezaalipour (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, CH)
Publicity Chair
Diego Marcilio (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, CH)
Finance Chair
Elisa Larghi (USI Università della Svizzera italiana, CH)
= Program committee =
Erika Abraham (RWTH, Aachen University, Germany)
Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Yamine Ait Ameur (IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France)
Étienne André (Université de Lorraine, France)
Richard Banach (The University of Manchester, UK)
Maurice H. ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Pierre-Evariste Dagand (CNRS-LIP6, France)
Ferruccio Damiani (University of Torino, Italy)
John Derrick (University of Sheffield, UK)
Brijesh Dongol (University of Surrey, UK)
Marc Frappier (University of Sherbrooke, Canada)
Carlo A. Furia (Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland)
Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy, France)
Paritosh Pandya (IIT Mumbai, India)
Patrizio Pelliccione (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
Luigia Petre (Ã…bo Akademi University, Finland)
R. Ramanujam (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India)
Steve Schneider (University of Surrey, UK)
Emil Sekerinski (McMaster University, Canada)
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway)
Stefano Tonetta (FBK, Italy)
Elena Troubitsyna (KTH, Sweden)
Juri Vain (Tallin Technical University, Estonia)
Tomáš Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Farn Wang (NTU, Taiwan)
Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Kirsten Winter (University of Queensland, Australia)
Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
2020-04-16
[Caml-list] Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) 2021: First Call for Papers
Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP) is an international conference on practical and theoretical topics in all areas that consider formal verification and certification as an essential paradigm for their work. CPP spans areas of computer science, mathematics, logic, and education.
CPP 2021 (https://popl21.sigplan.org/home/CPP-2021) will be held on 18-19 January 2021 and will be co-located with POPL 2021. CPP 2021 is sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG.
NEWS
* Due to the COVID-19 situation, it is currently uncertain whether CPP 2021 will be a physical conference in Copenhagen, Denmark or a virtual one.
* The submission deadline is one month earlier than usual.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Abstract Deadline: 16 September 2020 at 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h)
* Paper Submission Deadline: 22 September 2020 at 23:59 AoE (UTC-12h)
* Notification (tentative): 19 November 2020
* Camera Ready Deadline (tentative): 10 December 2020
* Conference: 18-19 January 2021
Deadlines expire at the end of the day, anywhere on earth. Abstract and submission deadlines are strict and there will be no extensions.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
We welcome submissions in research areas related to formal certification of programs and proofs. The following is a non-exhaustive list of topics of interest to CPP:
* certified or certifying programming, compilation, linking, OS kernels, runtime systems, security monitors, and hardware;
* certified mathematical libraries and mathematical theorems;
* proof assistants (e.g, ACL2, Agda, Coq, Dafny, F*, HOL4, HOL Light, Idris, Isabelle, Lean, Mizar, Nuprl, PVS, etc);
* new languages and tools for certified programming;
* program analysis, program verification, and program synthesis;
* program logics, type systems, and semantics for certified code;
* logics for certifying concurrent and distributed systems;
* mechanized metatheory, formalized programming language semantics, and logical frameworks;
* higher-order logics, dependent type theory, proof theory, logical systems, separation logics, and logics for security;
* verification of correctness and security properties;
* formally verified blockchains and smart contracts;
* certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra, polynomial systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest;
* certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality, first-order logic, and higher-order unification;
* certificates for program termination;
* formal models of computation;
* mechanized (un)decidability and computational complexity proofs;
* formally certified methods for induction and coinduction;
* integration of interactive and automated provers;
* logical foundations of proof assistants;
* applications of AI and machine learning to formal certification;
* user interfaces for proof assistants and theorem provers;
* teaching mathematics and computer science with proof assistants.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Prior to the paper submission deadline, the authors should upload their anonymized paper in PDF format through the HotCRP system at
The submissions must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the contribution. They must be formatted following the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format using the acmart style with the sigplan option, which provides a two-column style, using 10 point font for the main text, and a header for double blind review submission, i.e.,
\documentclass[sigplan,10pt,anonymous,review]{acmart}\settopmatter{printfolios=true,printccs=false,printacmref=false}
The submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be self-contained without the appendices. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. Submissions not conforming to the requirements concerning format and maximum length may be rejected without further consideration.
CPP 2021 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. To facilitate this, the submissions must adhere to two rules:
(1) author names and institutions must be omitted, and
(2) references to authors' own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ...").
The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing it more difficult. In particular, important background references should not be omitted or anonymized. In addition, authors are free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their papers as usual. For example, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. POPL has answers to frequently asked questions addressing many common concerns: https://popl20.sigplan.org/track/POPL-2020-Research-Papers#Submission-and-Reviewing-FAQ
We encourage the authors to provide any supplementary material that is required to support the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental data. This material must be uploaded at submission time, as an archive, not via a URL. Two forms of supplementary material may be submitted:
(1) Anonymous supplementary material is made available to the reviewers before they submit their first-draft reviews.
(2) Non-anonymous supplementary material is made available to the reviewers after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and have learned the identity of the authors.
Please use anonymous supplementary material whenever possible, so that it can be taken into account from the beginning of the reviewing process.
The submitted papers must adhere to the SIGPLAN Republication Policy (https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/) and the ACM Policy on Plagiarism (https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/plagiarism). Concurrent submissions to other conferences, journals, workshops with proceedings, or similar forums of publication are not allowed. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the (possibly virtual) conference.
PUBLICATION, COPYRIGHT AND OPEN ACCESS
The CPP 2021 proceedings will be published by the ACM, and authors of accepted papers will be required to choose one of the following publication options:
(1) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM a non-exclusive permission-to-publish license and, optionally, licenses the work under a Creative Commons license.
(2) Author retains copyright of the work and grants ACM an exclusive permission-to-publish license.
(3) Author transfers copyright of the work to ACM.
For authors who can afford it, we recommend option (1), which will make the paper Gold Open Access, and also encourage such authors to license their work under the CC-BY license. ACM will charge you an article processing fee for this option (currently, US$700), which you have to pay directly with the ACM.
For everyone else, we recommend option (2), which is free and allows you to achieve Green Open Access, by uploading a preprint of your paper to a repository that guarantees permanent archival such as arXiv or HAL. This is anyway a good idea for timely dissemination even if you chose option 1. Ensuring timely dissemination is particularly important for this edition, since, because of the very tight schedule, the official proceedings might not be available in time for CPP.
The official CPP 2021 proceedings will also be available via SIGPLAN OpenTOC (http://www.sigplan.org/OpenTOC/#cpp).
For ACM's take on this, see their Copyright Policy (http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/copyright-policy) and Author Rights (http://authors.acm.org/main.html).
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Cătălin Hriţcu, Inria Paris, France (co-chair)
Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK (co-chair)
Reynald Affeldt, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
June Andronick, CSIRO's Data61 and UNSW, Australia
Arthur Azevedo de Amorim, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Joachim Breitner, DFINITY Foundation, Germany
Jesper Cockx, TU Delft, Netherlands
Cyril Cohen, Université Côte d'Azur, Inria, France
Nils Anders Danielsson, University of Gothenburg / Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Brijesh Dongol, University of Surrey, UK
Floris van Doorn, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Yannick Forster, Saarland University, Germany
Shilpi Goel, Centaur Technology, Inc., USA
Chung-Kil Hur, Seoul National University, South Korea
Moa Johansson, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Ekaterina Komendantskaya, Heriot-Watt University, UK
Angeliki Koutsoukou-Argyraki, University of Cambridge, UK
Robert Y. Lewis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hongjin Liang, Nanjing University, China
Andreas Lochbihler, Digital Asset GmbH, Switzerland
Petar Maksimović, Imperial College London, UK
William Mansky, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
Anders Mörtberg, Stockholm University, Sweden
Sam Owre, SRI International, USA
Karl Palmskog, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Johannes Åman Pohjola, CSIRO's Data61 / University of New South Wales, Australia
Damien Pous, CNRS, ENS Lyon, France
Tahina Ramananandro, Microsoft Research, USA
Ilya Sergey, Yale-NUS College and National University of Singapore, Singapore
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA
Kathrin Stark, Princeton University, USA
René Thiemann, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Amin Timany, Aarhus University, Denmark
Josef Urban, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Christoph Weidenbach, MPI-INF, Germany
Freek Wiedijk, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands
Yannick Zakowski, University of Pennsylvania, USA
CONTACT
For any questions please contact the two PC chairs:
Cătălin Hriţcu <catalin.hritcu@gmail.com>,
Andrei Popescu <andrei.h.popescu@gmail.com>
2020-04-06
[Caml-list] Call for Papers - International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020)
International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020)
June 20~21, 2020, Dubai, UAE
https://csita2020.org/mlcl/index.html
Scope
International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Machine Learning & Cloud computing. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.
This conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in all aspects of machine learning and cloud-centric and outsourced computing, including (but not limited to):
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
* Case Studies and Theories in Cloud Computing
* Cloud Application, Infrastructure and Platforms
* Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries
* Cloud Based, Parallel Processing
* Cloud Business
* Cloud Computing Architecture
* Cloud Storage and File Systems
* Consolidation
* Data storage and Management in Cloud Computing
* Design Tool for Cloud Computing
* Energy Management and Programming Environments
* Location Based Services, Presence, Availability, and Locality
* Machine Learning Applications
* Machine Learning in knowledge-intensive systems
* Machine Learning Methods and analysis
* Machine Learning Problems
* Machine Learning Trends
* Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing
* Mobile Clouds for New Millennium, Mobile Devices
* Networks within Cloud systems, the Storage Area, and to the Outside Virtualization in the Context of Cloud Computing
* NoSQL Data Stores
* Performance, SLA Management and Enforcement
* Platforms
* Resource Provisioning
* Security Techniques for the Cloud
* Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing
* Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud)
* System Integration, Virtual Compute Clusters
* The Open Cloud: Cloud Computing and Open Source
* Virtualization on Platforms in the Cloud
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by April 12, 2020. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).
Important Dates
* Submission Deadline : April 12, 2020
* Authors Notification : May 20, 2020
* Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due :May 28, 2020
Contact us :
Here's where you can reach us : mlcl@csita2020.org (or) mlclconf@yahoo.com
June 20~21, 2020, Dubai, UAE
https://csita2020.org/mlcl/index.html
Scope
International Conference on Machine learning and Cloud Computing (MLCL 2020) will provide an excellent international forum for sharing knowledge and results in theory, methodology and applications of on Machine Learning & Cloud computing. The aim of the conference is to provide a platform to the researchers and practitioners from both academia as well as industry to meet and share cutting-edge development in the field.
This conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in all aspects of machine learning and cloud-centric and outsourced computing, including (but not limited to):
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
* Case Studies and Theories in Cloud Computing
* Cloud Application, Infrastructure and Platforms
* Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries
* Cloud Based, Parallel Processing
* Cloud Business
* Cloud Computing Architecture
* Cloud Storage and File Systems
* Consolidation
* Data storage and Management in Cloud Computing
* Design Tool for Cloud Computing
* Energy Management and Programming Environments
* Location Based Services, Presence, Availability, and Locality
* Machine Learning Applications
* Machine Learning in knowledge-intensive systems
* Machine Learning Methods and analysis
* Machine Learning Problems
* Machine Learning Trends
* Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing
* Mobile Clouds for New Millennium, Mobile Devices
* Networks within Cloud systems, the Storage Area, and to the Outside Virtualization in the Context of Cloud Computing
* NoSQL Data Stores
* Performance, SLA Management and Enforcement
* Platforms
* Resource Provisioning
* Security Techniques for the Cloud
* Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing
* Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud)
* System Integration, Virtual Compute Clusters
* The Open Cloud: Cloud Computing and Open Source
* Virtualization on Platforms in the Cloud
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference Submission System by April 12, 2020. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by Computer Science Conference Proceedings in Computer Science & Information Technology (CS & IT) series (Confirmed).
Important Dates
* Submission Deadline : April 12, 2020
* Authors Notification : May 20, 2020
* Registration & Camera-Ready Paper Due :May 28, 2020
Contact us :
Here's where you can reach us : mlcl@csita2020.org (or) mlclconf@yahoo.com
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