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[Carsten Fuhs <carsten AT dcs.bbk.ac.uk>]

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Updated information on: invited speakers, affiliated workshops
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                          CALL FOR PAPERS
                  Sixth International Conference on
      Formal Structures for Computation and Deduction (FSCD 2021)
           July 17 - July 24, 2021, Buenos Aires, Argentina
                     https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/
              In-cooperation with ACM SIGLOG and SIGPLAN
               
NOTE: Due to the Covid 19 pandemic situation, the 2021 edition of FSCD and 
its satellite workshops will be held online.

IMPORTANT DATES
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All deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth (AoE); late submissions will not 
be considered.

        Abstract:      February 12, 2021
        Submission:    February 15, 2021
        Rebuttal:      April 2-5, 2021
        Notification:  April 19, 2021
        Final version: May 3, 2021

INVITED SPEAKERS
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- Zena M. Ariola, University of Oregon
  https://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~ariola/
- Nao Hirokawa, JAIST
  https://www.jaist.ac.jp/~hirokawa/
- Elaine Pimentel, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte
  https://sites.google.com/site/elainepimentel/
- Sam Staton, University of Oxford
  https://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/samuel.staton/main.html

AFFILIATED WORKSHOPS
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- HoTT/UF: 6th Workshop on Homotopy Type Theory/Univalent Foundations
- ITRS: 10th Workshop on Intersection Types and Related Systems
- WPTE: 7th International Workshop on Rewriting Techniques for Program 
Transformations and Evaluation
- UNIF: 35th International Workshop on Unification
- LSFA: 16th Logical and Semantics Frameworks with Applications
- IWC: 10th International Workshop on Confluence
- IFIP WG 1.6: 24th meeting of the IFIP Working Group 1.6: Rewriting

FSCD (http://fscd-conference.org/) 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, semantics and verification in new challenging areas.

The suggested, but not exclusive, list of topics for submission is:

1. Calculi:
 - Rewriting systems (string, term, higher-order, graph, conditional, modulo, 
infinitary, etc.);
 - Lambda calculus;
 - Logics (first-order, higher-order, equational, modal, linear, classical, 
constructive, etc.);
 - Proof theory (natural deduction, sequent calculus, proof nets, etc.);
 - Type theory and logical frameworks;
 - Homotopy type theory;
 - Quantum calculi.

2. Methods in Computation and Deduction:
 - Type systems (polymorphism, dependent, recursive, intersection, session, 
etc.);
 - Induction, coinduction;
 - Matching, unification, completion, orderings;
 - Strategies (normalization, completeness, etc.);
 - Tree automata;
 - Model building and model checking;
 - Proof search and theorem proving;
 - Constraint solving and decision procedures.

3. Semantics:
 - Operational semantics and abstract machines;
 - Game Semantics and applications;
 - Domain theory and categorical models;
 - Quantitative models (timing, probabilities, etc.);
 - Quantum computation and emerging models in computation.

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;
 - Applications of formal systems in other sciences.

6. Semantics and Verification in new challenging areas:
 - Certification;
 - Security;
 - Blockchain protocols;
 - Data Bases;
 - Deep learning and machine learning algorithms;
 - Planning.

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.

SPECIAL ISSUE
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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a 
special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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The submission site is:

  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fscd2021

Submissions can be made in two categories. Regular research papers are 
limited to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices. They 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. An archive of the code with 
instructions on how to install and run the tool must be submitted. In 
addition, a webpage where the system can be experimented with should be 
provided. Complete instructions on submitting a paper can be found on the 
conference web site:

  https://fscd2021.dc.uba.ar/

One author of an accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference

BEST PAPER AWARD BY JUNIOR RESEARCHERS
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The program committee will select 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).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
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Naoki Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo
  fscd2021 AT easychair.org

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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M. Ayala-Rincón, Universidade de Brasília
S. Berardi, University of Torino
F. Blanqui, INRIA
E. Bonelli, Stevens Institute of Technology
É. Contejean, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay
T. Coquand,  University of Gothenburg
T. Ehrhard, Université de Paris, CNRS
S. Escobar, Univ. Politècnica de València
J. Espírito Santo, University of Minho
C. Faggian, Université de Paris, CNRS
A. Felty, University of Ottawa
S. Figueira, Universidad de Buenos Aires
M. Fiore, University of Cambridge
M. Gaboardi, Boston University
S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad
I. Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics
D. Kesner, Université de Paris
R. Krebbers, Radboud University Nijmegen
T. Kutsia, Johannes Kepler University Linz
B. König, University of Duisburg-Essen
M. Lenisa, University of Udine
N. Nishida, Nagoya University
L. Ong, University of Oxford
P. Parys, University of Warsaw
J. Rehof, TU Dortmund University
C. Rocha, Pontificia Univ. Javeriana Cali
A. Silva, University College London
N. Szasz, Universidad ORT Uruguay
A. Tiu, Australian National University
S. Winkler, University of Verona
H. Yang, KAIST, South Korea

CONFERENCE CHAIR
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Alejandro Díaz-Caro, Quilmes Univ. & ICC/CONICET

WORKSHOP CHAIRS
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Mauricio Ayala-Rincón, Universidade de Brasília
Carlos López Pombo, Universidad de Buenos Aires

STEERING COMMITTEE WORKSHOP CHAIR
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Jamie Vicary, Oxford University

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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Carsten Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London

FSCD STEERING COMMITTEE
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Z. Ariola, University of Oregon
M. Ayala-Rincón, University of Brasilia
C. Fuhs, Birkbeck, University of London
H. Geuvers, Radboud University
S. Ghilezan, University of Novi Sad
S. Guerrini, University of Paris 13
D. Kesner (Chair), University of Paris Diderot 
H. Kirchner, Inria
C. Kop, Radboud University
D. Mazza, University of Paris 13
L. Ong, Oxford University
J. Rehof, TU Dortmund
J. Vicary, Oxford University