CfP: Extended Deadline (April 27, 2015): SETS 2015

2nd International Workshop about Sets and Tools (SETS 2015)

Affiliated to FM 2015

June 23, 2015, Oslo, Norway | http://sets2015.cnam.fr/



AIM
Sets and constructs built upon them like relations, functions, sequences are the main modeling ingredients of formalisms such as VDM, Z, B, or Event-B. Sets also occur in the formalization of mathematics, as evidenced by the large library of the Mizar proof system for example. In addition, still in the domain of verification, there is an increasing interest to automate set theory (which is known to be a difficult problem), with some concrete realizations, such as mp (the "main prover" of Atelier B) or Muscadet (an automated theorem prover for natural deduction, which gives some good performances in set theory). Sets are also the main features of some programming languages like the former SetL language or the more recent {log} language (pronounced as setlog).

The workshop aims at bringing together researchers interested in set theory, especially to design tools for dealing with set theory, such as interactive or automated theorem provers, proof checkers, theories for general purpose proof tools, constraint solvers, programming languages etc. These tools may be dedicated or general purpose tools. Contributions by theoreticians working on set theories or fragments of set theories in the aim of designing concrete tools, and by practitioners using set-based tools are both welcome. We are also interested by contributions providing some comparisons between set modeling techniques and other formalisms, such as type theory (and variants) for instance. Finally, regarding the domains of application, we mainly expect contributions in the framework of formal methods, but not exhaustively, and contributions reporting formalizations of mathematics using set theory for example could be of interest for this workshop as well.

TOPICS
Topics of interest for this workshop include all aspects of set theory and corresponding tools. More specifically, some suggested topics are:

• Proof tools for sets
• Constraint solvers for sets
• Set-based programming languages
• Automated verification in set theory
• Encoding of sets in provers
• Set theories for SMT solvers
• Use of set-based tools in formal methods
• Use of set-based tools in mathematics
• Comparison of set-based tools
• Comparison between set and type theories
• Experience reports

CONTRIBUTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS
Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages in length, following the Springer LNCS format. These submissions may be:

• Research papers providing new concepts and results
• Position papers and research perspectives
• Experience reports
• Tool presentations

Proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be published as online proceedings in the CEUR workshop proceedings series (CEUR-WS.org).

PAPER SUBMISSION

Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF using the SETS 2015 EasyChair web site at the following address:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sets2015

IMPORTANT DATES

• Abstract submission: April 20, 2015 (extended)
• Submission deadline: April 27, 2015 (extended)
• Paper notification: May 7, 2015
• Revised/final paper: May 22, 2015
• Workshop: June 23, 2015

PROGRAMME CO-CHAIRS

• David Delahaye (Cnam, France)
• Catherine Dubois (Ensiie, France)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

• Mats Carlsson (Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden)
• Iliano Cervesato (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Maximiliano Cristia (CIFASIS, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina)
• David Deharbe (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
• Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK)
• Michael Leuschel (University of Dusseldorf, Germany)
• Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy - Grand Est, Loria, France)
• Louis Mussat (RATP, France)
• Gianfranco Rossi (Universita di Parma, Italy)
• Arnaud Spiwack (MINES ParisTech, France)
• Josef Urban (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
• Wolfgang Windsteiger (RISC Institute, JKU Linz, Austria)