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Call for Papers

ICTAC 2021

18th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing

Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, September 6-10, 2021

https://ictac2021.github.io/

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** We hope to have a (hybrid) physical event, but presentations can be given remotely **
** Springer LNCS proceedings and Theoretical Computer Science special issue **

Important dates:

Submission deadline: May 7, 2021 ** extended to May 14 AoE **
Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2021


Overview and Scope:

The ICTAC conference series aims at bringing together researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry and government to present research
and exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical
aspects of computing and the exploitation of theory through methods and
tools for system development. ICTAC also aims to promote research
cooperation between developing and industrial countries.

The conference concerns all aspect of theoretical computer science,
including, but not limited to:

* languages and automata
* semantics of programming languages
* logic in computer science
* lambda calculus, type theory and category theory
* domain-specific languages
* theories of concurrency and mobility
* theories of distributed computing
* models of objects and components
* coordination models
* timed, hybrid, embedded and cyber-physical systems
* security and privacy
* static analysis
* probabilistic and statistical verification
* software verification
* software testing
* runtime verification
* program generation and transformation
* model checking and theorem proving
* applications and case studies


Call for Papers:

We solicit submissions, related to the topics of ICTAC, in the following categories:

* original research contributions (16 pages max, excluding references);
* applications and experiences (16 pages max, excluding references);
* short papers, with original work in progress or with proposals of new ideas
and emerging challenges (6 pages max, excluding references); and
* tool papers (6 pages max, excluding references).

All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently
for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done via EasyChair at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2021. Papers must be
formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers
(see http://www.springer.com/lncs), without modifications of margins
and other space-saving measures.


Publication:

All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference
that will be published as a volume in Springer's Lecture Notes in
Computer Science (LNCS) series.

The authors of a subset of accepted papers will be invited
to submit extended versions of their papers to a special issue
of the journal Theoretical Computer Science.


Program Chairs:

Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway


Program Committee:

Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen, Germany
Musab A. Alturki, Runtime Verification Inc., USA, and KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
Étienne André, Universite de Lorraine, France
Kyungmin Bae, POSTECH, Korea
Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany
Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille, France
Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy
Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Manuel Clavel, Vietnamese-German University, Vietnam
Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta, Malta
Rob van Glabbeek, Data61, CSIRO, Australia
Sergey Goncharov, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Osman Hasan, National University of Sciences and Technology, Pakistan
Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Axel Legay, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Martin Leucker, University of Lübeck, Germany
Manuel Mazzara, Innopolis University, Russia
Catherine Meadows, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Larissa Meinicke, The University of Queensland, Australia
Hans de Nivelle, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan
Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA Saclay and LIX, France
Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Jose Proenca, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal
Riadh Robbana, INSAT, Carthage University, Tunisia
Gwen Salaun, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Davide Sangiorgi, University of Bologna, Italy, and INRIA, France
Lutz Schröder, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
Volker Stolz, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
Georg Struth, The University of Sheffield, UK