FSCD 2019 Last Call for Papers

[Mauricio Ayala-Rincon]

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Updated information: titles and abstracts of invited talks are now available

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                               CALL FOR PAPERS

                     Fourth International Conference on

        Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2019)

                    24 -- 30 June 2019, Dortmund, Germany

                     http://easyconferences.eu/fscd2019/

IMPORTANT DATES

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All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late

submissions will not be considered. 

     Titles and Short Abstracts:        8 February 2019 

     Full Papers:                              11 February 2019 

     Rebuttal period:                        28 March -- 1 April 2019

     Authors Notification:                 8 April 2019 

     Final version for proceedings:  22 April  2019 

FSCD covers all aspects of formal structures for computation and

deduction from theoretical foundations to applications.  Building on

two communities, RTA (Rewriting Techniques and Applications) and TLCA

(Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications), FSCD embraces their core

topics and broadens their scope to closely related areas in logics,

models of computation (e.g. quantum computing, probabilistic

computing, homotopy type theory), semantics and verification in new

challenging areas (e.g. blockchain protocols or deep learning

algorithms).

Suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission are:

1. Calculi: 

   Rewriting systems, Lambda calculus, Concurrent calculi, Logics,

   Type theory, Homotopy type theory, Logical frameworks, Quantum

   calculi

2. Methods in Computation and Deduction:

   Type systems; Induction and coinduction; Matching, unification,

   completion and orderings; Strategies; Tree automata; Model

   checking; Proof search and theorem proving; Constraint solving and

   decision procedures

3. Semantics:

   Operational semantics; Abstract machines; Game Semantics; Domain

   theory; Categorical models; Quantitative models

4. Algorithmic Analysis and Transformations of Formal Systems:

   Type inference and type checking; Abstract interpretation;

   Complexity analysis and implicit computational complexity; Checking

   termination, confluence, derivational complexity and related

   properties; Symbolic computation

5. Tools and Applications:

   Programming and proof environments; Verification tools; Proof

   assistants and interactive theorem provers; Applications in

   industry (e.g. design and verification of critical systems);

   Applications in other sciences (e.g. biology)

6. Semantics and verification in new challenging areas:

   Certification; Security; Blockchain protocols; Data bases; Deep

   learning and machine learning algorithms; Planning

INVITED SPEAKERS

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Titles and abstracts available at

 http://easyconferences.eu/fscd2019/invited-speakers/  

*  Beniamino Accattoli (INRIA, Paris, France)
  https://sites.google.com/site/beniaminoaccattoli/

*  Amy Felty (University of Ottawa, Canada)
  http://www.site.uottawa.ca/~afelty/

*  Sarah Winkler (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
  http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/swinkler/

*  Hongseok Yang (KAIST,  Korea)
  https://sites.google.com/view/hongseokyang/

PUBLICATION

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The proceedings will be published as an electronic volume in the

Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) of Schloss

Dagstuhl. All LIPIcs proceedings are open access.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 

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Submissions can be made in two categories.  Regular research papers

are limited to 15 pages (including references, with the possibility to

add an annex for technical details, e.g.\ proofs) and must present

original research which is unpublished and not submitted

elsewhere. System descriptions are limited to 15 pages (including

references) and must present new software tools in which FSCD topics

play an important role, or significantly new versions of such

tools. Submissions must be formatted using the LIPIcs style files and

submitted via EasyChair.  Complete instructions on submitting a paper

can be found on the conference web site:

        http://easyconferences.eu/fscd2019/

BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS 

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The program committee will consider declaring this award to a paper in

which at least one author is a junior researcher, i.e. either a

student or whose PhD award date is less than three years from the

first day of the meeting. Other authors should declare to the PC Chair

that at least 50% of contribution is made by the junior

researcher(s).

SPECIAL ISSUE 

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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended

version for a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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H. Geuvers, Radboud U. Nijmegen (Chair)

Z. Ariola, U. of Oregon

M. Ayala Rincón, U. of Brasilia

A. Bauer, U. of Ljubljana

F. Bonchi, U. of Pisa

S. Broda, U. of Porto

U. Dal Lago, U. of Bologna & Inria

U. De'Liguoro, U. of Torino

D. Kapur, U. of New Mexico

P. Dybjer, Chalmers U. of Technology

M. Fernandez, King's College London

J. Giesl, RWTH Aachen

N. Hirokawa, JAIST

S. Lucas, U. Politecnica de Valencia

A. Middeldorp, U. of Innsbruck

F. Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon U.

B. Pientka, McGill U.

J. van de Pol, Aarhus U. & U. of Twente

F. van Raamsdonk, VU Amsterdam 

C. Schürmann, ITU Copenhagen

P. Severi, U. of Leicester

A. Silva, U. College London

S. Staton, Oxford U.

T. Streicher, TU Darmstadt

A. Stump, U. of Iowa

N. Tabareau, Inria

S. Tison, U. of Lille

A. Tiu, Australian National U.

T. Tsukada, U. of Tokyo

J. Urban, CTU Prague

P. Urzyczyn, U. of Warsaw

J. Waldmann, Leipzig U. of Applied Sciences

CONFERENCE CHAIR

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Jakob Rehof, TU Dortmund

LOCAL WORKSHOP CHAIR

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Boris Düdder, U. of Copenhagen

STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR

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J. Vicary, Oxford U.

PUBLICITY CHAIR

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Sandra Alves , Porto U.

FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE

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S. Alves (Porto U.),

M. Ayala-Rincón (Brasilia U.)

C. Fuhs (Birkbeck, London U.)

D. Kesner (Chair, Paris U.) 

H. Kirchner (Inria)

N. Kobayashi (U. Tokyo)

C. Kop (Radboud U. Nijmegen)

D. Miller (Inria)

L. Ong (Chair, Oxford U.) 

B. Pientka (McGill U.)

S. Staton (Oxford U.)