First call for papers: PSSV-2016.

[Николай Шилов]

First Call for Papers

The 7th Workshop "Program Semantics, Specification and Verification:  Theory
and Applications" (PSSV-2016, http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/csr2016/pssv16) will
be held in affiliation with International Сonf. " Computer Science in
Russia" (СSR-2016, http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/csr2016/ ) in St. Petersburg,
Russia, June 14-15, 2016. 

Main Workshop page: http://pssv-conf.ru (to be updated soon).

Related Events: the 5th International Valentin Turchin Workshop on
Metacomputation (META-2016, http://meta2016.pereslavl.ru/) will take place
just 11 days later than PSSV-2016 (June 26 - July 2, 2016) in
Pereslavl-Zalessky (120 km to the north-east from Moscow), Russia.

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Important dates 

Extended abstract submission: April 15, 2016
Notification: May 11, 2016

Registration via registration page of CSR-2016
(http://logic.pdmi.ras.ru/csr2016/registration, coming soon).


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Scope and Topics 

Research and work in progress papers are welcome. 
List of topics of interest includes (but is not limited to): 
* formalisms for program semantics; 
* formal models and semantics of programs and systems; 
* semantics of programming and specification languages; 
* formal description techniques; 
* logics for formal specification and verification; 
* deductive program verification;
* automatic theorem proving;
* model checking of programs and systems; 
* static analysis of programs;
* formal approach to testing and validation; 
* program analysis and verification tools. 

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Program Committee:

* Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham, UK), 
* Sergey Baranov (St.Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation,
Russia),
* Alexander Bolotov (University of Westminster, UK),
* Nina Evtushenko (Tomsk State University, Russia),
* Vladimir Itsykson (St. Petersburg State Polytech. University, Russia),
* Victor Kuliamin (Institute for System Programming, Moscow, Russia),
* Alexei Lisitsa (University of Liverpool, UK),
* Irina Lomazova (Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia),
* Nikolay Shilov (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia), 
* Vladimir Zakharov (Moscow State University, Russia).

 Program Chairs:

* Valery Nepomniaschy (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk,
Russia) 
* Valery Sokolov (Yaroslavl State University, Yaroslavl, Russia)

Organization Chair:
* Nikolay Shilov (Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russia)
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Submission and Publication 

Program Committee invites submissions in the form of extended abstracts (up
to 8 pages, Lecture Notes in Computer Science style) in English. Additional
details may be included in an appendix up to 4 pages for Program Committee.
Submissions should be via EasyChair conference system
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pssv2016).

All accepted papers will be published in the preliminary proceedings before
the workshop. Selected papers will be published after the workshop in one of
Russian peer-review journals. At least one author of every accepted paper
should present a talk in the workshop.

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Contacts and Updates: 

For further details and updates please refer the main Workshop page at
http://pssv-conf.ru. In case of program question please contact Program
Co-chairs
* Valery Nepomniaschy (vnep at iis.nsk.su), 
* Valery Sokolov (valery-sokolov at yandex.ru),
for organization issues - the Organization Chair
* Nikolay Shilov (shilov at iis.nsk.su).