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SYNASC 2023 - Final Call for Papers

25th International Symposium on
Symbolic and Numeric Algorithms for Scientific Computing
September 11-14, 2023, LORIA in Nancy, France
http://synasc.ro/2023

=== Aim ===

SYNASC aims to stimulate interaction among multiple communities focusing on
defining,  optimizing and executing complex algorithms in several application areas.
The focus of the conference ranges from symbolic and numeric computation to
formal methods applied to programming, artificial intelligence, distributed computing
and computing theory. The interplay between these areas, in fact, is essential in the
current scenario where the economy and society demand for the development of
complex, data-intensive, trustable and high-performance computational systems.

In this context we invite submissions containing original results related to SYNASC main tracks, workshops and special session.

=== Important Dates ===

19 June 2023:         Paper submission for main tracks (AoE - strict deadline)
19 June 2023:         Paper submission for workshops and special sessions (AoE - strict deadline)
15 July 2023:         Notification of acceptance
15 August 2023:       Early registration    
1 September 2023:     Late registration
11-14 September 2023: Symposium
31 October 2023:      Revised papers for post-proceedings

=== Conference format ===

SYNASC 2023 is planned as an in-person conference. However, virtual participation
might be a possibility in exceptional situations.

=== Invited speakers ===

* Hora?iu Cirstea, Université de Lorraine, France
* James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
* Fairouz Kamareddine, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
* Andrei Paun, University of Bucharest, Romania
* Radu Stoica, Université de Lorraine, France
* Thomas Sturm, CNRS, France

=== Main tracks ===

* Symbolic Computation
  Track chairs:
        James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
        Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo, Canada

* Numerical Computing
  Track chairs:
        Eva Kaslik, West University of Timisoara, Romania
        Dorota Mozyrska, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland
        Stefan Takacs, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria

* Logic and Programming
  Track chairs
       Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA
       Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada
       Laura Kovacs,  Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), Austria

* Distributed Computing
  Track chairs
       Mark Frincu, Nottingham Trent University, UK
       Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania

* Artificial Intelligence
  Track chairs
       Edwin Lughofer, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
       Andrei Petrovski, Robert Gordon University, UK
       Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania

* Theory of Computing
  Track chairs
       Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania  
       Gabriel Istrate, University of Bucharest, Romania

=== Workshops ===

The following workshops will be collocated with SYNASC 2023:

+ 25th Workshop on Agents for Complex Systems (ACSys)
+ 7th Workshop on Digital Image Processing for Medical and Automotive Industry (DIPMAI)
+ 25th Workshop on Iterative Approximation of Fixed Points (IAFP)
+ 25th Workshop on Natural Computing and Applications (NCA)
+ 1st Workshop on Theory of Smart Contracts and Applications (TOSCA)

=== Special sessions ===

+ Special Session in honor of Professor James Davenport, at his 70th birthday
+ Special Session for PhD students

=== Tutorials ===

+ Tutorial on "The TLA+ Language and Tools for Specifying and Verifying Systems" - Stephan Merz, INRIA, France
+ Tutorial on "Performance and compliance anomaly detection" - Gabriel Iuhasz, West University of Timisoara, Romania

=== Submission ===

All papers must contain original research results and should not be submitted or
 published elsewhere. There are four categories of submissions:
+ Regular papers describing fully completed research results (up to 8 pages
         in the two-columns paper style).  
+ System descriptions and experimental papers describing software prototypes,
         results of simulations, or experimental data analysis, with a link to the reported
         results (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style).
+ Work in progress papers, describing ongoing work and/or preliminary results
        (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style). 
+ Short papers and posters, describing ongoing work and research challenges
         of PhD students (up to 4 pages in the two-columns paper style).
The papers should be submitted electronically through
    http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=synasc2023 .

Research papers that are accepted and presented at the symposium will be
collected as proceedings published by Conference Publishing Service (CPS)
(included in IEEE Xplore) and will be submitted for indexing in ISI Web of Science,
DBLP, SCOPUS.  For all accepted papers, at least one author is required to
register for the conference and present the paper.

There will be a best paper award for a PhD student presentation.

=== Topics for main tracks ===

* Symbolic Computation
        + computer algebra
        + symbolic analysis
        + symbolic combinatorics
        + symbolic techniques applied to numerics
        + hybrid symbolic and numeric algorithms
        + numerics and symbolics for geometry
        + programming with constraints, narrowing
        + applications of symbolic computation to artificial intelligence and vice-versa

* Numerical Computing
        + iterative approximation of fixed points
        + solving systems of nonlinear equations
        + numerical and symbolic algorithms for differential equations
        + numerical and symbolic algorithms for optimization
        + parallel algorithms for numerical computing
        + scientific visualization and image processing

* Logic and Programming
       + automatic reasoning
       + formal system verification
       + formal verification and synthesis
       + software quality assessment
       + static analysis
       + timing analysis
       + automated testing
     
* Distributed Computing
       + modelling of parallel and distributed systems
       + parallel and distributed algorithms
       + architectures for parallel and distributed systems.  
       + applications for parallel and distributed systems,
       + acceleration of AI or Big Data  applications using distributed and
          parallel computing
       + networked intelligence and Internet of Things  
     
* Artificial Intelligence
       + knowledge discovery, representation, and management
       + automated reasoning, uncertain reasoning, and constraint strategies
       + recommender and expert systems
       + intelligent systems, agents, and networks
       + agent-based complex systems
       + AI-based systems for scientific computing
       + machine learning – including deep learning models and technologies
       + explainable and trustworthy AI
       + information retrieval, data mining, text mining and web mining
       + computational intelligence - including fuzzy, neural and evolutionary computing
       + AI applications: natural language processing, computer vision,
          signal processing, stock market, computational neuroscience, robotics,
          autonomous vehicles, medical diagnosis, cybersecurity, digital design,
          online education, algorithm invention and analysis

* Theory of Computing
       + data structures and algorithms
       + combinatorial optimization
       + formal languages and combinatorics on words
       + graph-theoretic and combinatorial methods in computer science
       + algorithmic paradigms, including distributed, online,
          approximation, probabilistic, game-theoretic algorithms
       + computational complexity theory, including structural complexity, boolean
          complexity, communication complexity, average-case complexity,
          derandomization and property testing
       + logical approaches to complexity, including finite model theory
       + algorithmic and computational learning theory
       + aspects of computability theory, including computability in
          analysis and algorithmic information theory
       + proof complexity
       + computational social choice and game theory
       + new computational paradigms: CNN computing, quantum,
          holographic and other non-standard approaches to computability
       + randomized methods, random graphs, threshold phenomena and
          typical-case complexity
       + automata theory and other formal models, particularly in
          relation to formal verification methods such as model checking
          and runtime verification
       + applications of theory, including wireless and sensor networks,
          computational biology and computational economics
       + experimental algorithmics

=== Committees ==
 
   * Steering Committee:
       + Anca Mirela Andreica, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
       + James Davenport, University of Bath, UK
       + Tetsuo Ida, University of Tsukuba, Japan
       + Tudor Jebelean, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
       + Laura Kovacs, Technical University of Vienna, Austria
       + Dorel Lucanu, “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of Iasi, Romania
       + Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
       + Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania
       + Alin Stefanescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
       + Stephen Watt, University of Waterloo, Canada
       + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania

   * General Chairs:
       + Viorel Negru, West University of Timisoara, Romania
       + Daniela Zaharie, West University of Timisoara, Romania

   * Program Chairs:
       + Sorin Stratulat, Université de Lorraine, France
       + Mircea Marin, West University of Timisoara, Romania

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