[Termtools] DICE-FOPARA 2017: Call for Papers

[Georg Moser]

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       8th Workshop on Developments in Implicit Computational complExity and
        5th Workshop on Foundational and Practical Aspects of Resource 
Analysis
                                 (DICE-FOPARA 2017)

                              Affiliated with ETAPS 2017
                          April 22 - 23, 2017, Uppsala, Sweden
		       http://cbr.uibk.ac.at/events/dice-fopara

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OBJECTIVES

The first joint international workshop on Developments in Implicit 
Computational complExity (DICE) and
FOundational and Practical Aspects of Resource Analysis (FOPARA) will be 
held in Uppsala, Sweden, from April 22-23, 2017 as part of ETAPS.

The DICE workshop explores the area of Implicit Computational Complexity 
(ICC), which grew out from several proposals to use logic and formal 
methods to provide languages for complexity-bounded computation (e.g. 
Ptime, Logspace computation). It aims at studying the computational 
complexity of programs without referring to external measuring 
conditions or a particular machine model, but only by considering 
language restrictions or logical/computational principles entailing 
complexity properties.

The FOPARA workshop serves as a forum for presenting original research 
results that are relevant to the analysis of resource (e.g. time, space, 
energy) 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. We also 
encourage papers that combine theory and practice.

Given the complementarity and the synergy between these two communities, 
and following the successful experience of co-location of DICE-FOPARA 
2015 in London at ETAPS 2015, we will hold
the 8th Workshop on DICE and the 5th Workshop on FOPARA together at 
ETAPS 2017.


TOPICS

The joint international DICE-FOPARA workshop serves as a forum for 
presenting original and established research results that are relevant 
to the implicit computational complexity theory and to the analysis of 
resource (e.g. time, space, energy) 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, as well as papers that combine theory and practice.

Areas of interest to the workshop include, but are not limited to,
the following:

*   type systems for controlling/inferring/checking complexity
*   logical and machine-independent characterisations of complexity classes
*   logics closely related to complexity classes
*   linear logic
*   semantics of complexity-bounded computation
*   rewriting and termination orderings
*   interpretation-based methods for implicit complexity
*   programming languages for complexity-bounded computation
*   theoretical foundations of program complexity analysis
*   application of implicit complexity to security
*   resource static analysis for embedded or/and critical systems;
*   semantic methods to analyse resources, including quasi-interpretations;
*   practical applications of resource analysis;
*   resource analysis by term and graph rewriting.


SUBMISSIONS

We ask for submission of *regular papers* describing original work 
(10--15 pages) or *extended abstracts* (2--6 pages) presenting already 
published work or work in progress.

With respect to regular papers, submissions will be in particular 
verified for
originality and novelty and the manuscript must not have been published, 
nor is presently submitted, elsewhere. With respect of submissions of 
extended abstracts already published manuscripts are acceptable, but 
have to be within the scope of the workshop and potentially give rise to 
lively discussions during the meeting.

After the workshop we plan to edit a special issue of DICE-FOPARA 2017 
in a renown journal in conjunction with the 7th Workshop on Developments 
in Implicit Computational complExity (DICE 2016).

Regular papers must be prepared using the LaTeX EPTCS class (see 
http://eptcs.org/).  Accepted regular papers will appear in an EPTCS 
volume (application pending). Papers should be submitted electronically 
via the submission page:

      https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dicefopara2017


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission      February 19, 2017
Notification          March 19, 2017
Final versions due    March 26, 2017
Workshop date         April 22-23, 2017


CONFERENCE VENUE

The workshop will be held as a satellite workshop of European Joint 
Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software 2017 (ETAPS 2017) which 
takes place in Uppsala, Sweden.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Beniamino Accattoli (Paris)
Guillaume Bonfante (Nancy, co-chair)
Marko van Eekelen (Nijmegen)
Marco Gaboardi (Buffalo)
Dan Ghica (Birmingham)
Clemens Grelck (Amsterdam)
Charles Grellois (Bologna)
Nao Hirokawa (JAIST)
Jan Hoffmann (CMU)
Thomas Jensen (Rennes)
Björn Lisper (Mälardalen)
Hans-Wolfgang Loidl (Edinburgh)
Georg Moser (Innsbruck, co-chair)
Kazushige Terui (Kyoto)
Simon Wegener (Saarbrücken)
Florian Zuleger (Vienna)