ICE 2015

8th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2015)

Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2015

June 4-5, 2015, Grenoble, France

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Highlights

  • Innovative selection procedure
  • ICE welcomes submissions of full papers, short papers, and brief announcements of already published papers
  • Invited talks: Steve Ross-Talbot and Joseph Sifakis 
  • Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier)

Important Dates

  • 1 April 2015: Abstract submission (extended)
  • 1 April 2015: Full paper submission (extended)
  • 27 March – 30 April 2015: Reviews and PC discussion
  • 30 April 2015: Notification to authors
  • 4-5 June 2015: ICE in Grenoble
  • 15 July 2015: Camera-ready for post-proceedings

Scope

Interaction and Concurrency Experiences (ICEs) is a series of international scientific meetings oriented to theoretical computer science researchers with special interest in models, verification, tools, and programming primitives for complex interactions. The general scope of the venue includes theoretical and applied aspects of interactions and the synchronization mechanisms used among components of concurrent/distributed systems, related to several areas of computer science in the broad spectrum ranging from formal specification and analysis to studies inspired by emerging computational models. We solicit contributions relevant to Interaction and Concurrency, including but not limited to:

  • Formal semantics
  • Process algebras and calculi
  • Models and languages
  • Protocols
  • Logics and types
  • Expressiveness
  • Model transformations
  • Tools, implementations, and experiments
  • Specification and verification
  • Co-inductive techniques
  • Tools and techniques for automation
  • Synthesis techniques

Selection Procedure

Since its first edition in 2008, the distinguishing feature of ICE has been an innovative paper selection mechanism based on an interactive discussion amongst authors and PC members. During the review phase, each submission is published on a dedicated discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors of the submission and by all the PC members not in conflict with the submission (the forum preserves anonymity of reviewers). The forum is used by reviewers to ask questions and clarifications to the authors, allowing them to better explain all the aspects of their submission. The evaluation of the submission will take into account not only the reviews, but also the outcome of the discussion. As witnessed by the past seven editions of ICE, this procedure considerably improves the accuracy of the reviews, the fairness of the selection, the quality of camera-ready papers, and the discussion during the workshop.

Submission 

We invite for three types of submissions:

  1. Full Papers;
  2. Short Papers;
  3. Brief Announcements of already Published Papers.

Full and short papers will appear in the post-proceedings and must report previously unpublished work and not be simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed proceedings. The ICE 2015 post-proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (http://eptcs.org/). In addition, we invite brief announcements of already published results, should the authors be interested in discussing their published research with the ICE community and giving a talk. Brief announcements will not be part of the post-proceedings. Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2015). Full papers should not exceed 15 pages in length, while short papers and brief announcements should not exceed 5 pages with the EPTCS style (http://style.eptcs.org/). Accepted (full and short) papers and brief announcements must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.

Special Issue

We plan to invite extended versions of selected full papers to a special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier). Such contributions will be regularly peer-reviewed according to the standard journal policy, but they will be handled in a shorter time than regular submissions. A list of special issues of previous ICE editions already published or in preparation can be found below.

Invited Talks

Accepted contributions

  • Executable Behaviour and the π-Calculus. Fei Yang and Bas Luttik. [PDF,slides]
  • Reversible Barbed Congruence on Configuration Structures. Clément Aubert and Ioana Cristescu. [PDF,slides]
  • Orchestrated compliance for session-based client/server interactions. Franco Barbanera, Steffen van Bakel and Ugo De’ Liguoro. [PDF,slides]
  • Parametrized Automata Simulation and Application to Service Composition. Walid Belkhir, Yannick Chevalier and Michael Rusinowitch. (brief announcement) [PDF,slides]
  • Full Abstraction for Signal Flow Graphs. Filippo Bonchi, Pawel Sobocinski and Fabio Zanasi. (brief announcement) [PDF,slides]
  • Analysis of Petri Nets and Transition Systems. Eike Best and Uli Schlachter. [PDF,slides]
  • On the Computation Power of Name Parameterization in Higher-order Processes. Xian Xu, Qiang Yin and Huan Long. [PDF,slides]
  • Configuration Logic—Modelling Architecture Styles. Anastasia Mavridou, Eduard Baranov, Simon Bliudze and Joseph Sifakis. (brief announcement) [PDF,slides]
  • Deductive Verification of Parallel Programs Using Why3. César Santos, Vasco T. Vasconcelos and Francisco Martins. [PDF,slides]
  • On the Expressiveness of Joining. Thomas Given-Wilson and Axel Legay. [PDF,slides]
  • The LTS WorkBench. Alceste Scalas and Massimo Bartoletti. (short paper) [PDF,slides]
  • Relating BIP and Reo. Kasper Dokter, Sung-Shik T.Q. Jongmans, Farhad Arbab and Simon Bliudze. [PDF,slides]

  • Lattices for Space/Belief and Extrusion/Utterance. Stefan Haar, Salim Perchy, Camilo Rueda, Frank Valencia. (brief announcement) [PDF,slides]

Programme

Day 1 (June 4)

Keynote (chair: Alberto Lluch Lafuente)

14:30 – 15:30 Invited talk 1: Rigorous System Design. Joseph Sifakis. [slides]

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break

Session 1 Coordination models (chair: Hugo Torres Vieira)

16:00 – 16:30 Full Abstraction for Signal Flow Graphs. Filippo Bonchi, Pawel Sobocinski and Fabio Zanasi. (brief announcement)
16:30 – 17:00 Relating BIP and Reo. Kasper Dokter, Sung-Shik T.Q. Jongmans, Farhad Arbab and Simon Bliudze.
17:00 – 17:30 Configuration Logic—Modelling Architecture Styles. Anastasia Mavridou, Eduard Baranov, Simon Bliudze and Joseph Sifakis. (brief announcement)
17:30 – 18:00 Orchestrated compliance for session-based client/server interactions. Franco Barbanera, Steffen van Bakel and Ugo De’Liguoro.

20:00 Social Dinner 20h at L’Epicurean (map).

Day 2 (June 5)

Joint session with FRIDA

09:00 – 10:00 Invited talk (FRIDA): TLA+ for Non-Dummies. Leslie Lamport.
10:00 – 10:30 (FRIDA) Symmetry Reduction For Dynamic Process Networks. Richard Trefler, Kedar Namjoshi.

10:30 – 11:00  Coffee Break

Keynote and Session 3  (chair: Alberto Lluch Lafuente)

11:00 – 12:00 Invited talk 2: The importance and potential of descriptions to our industry. Steve Ross-Talbot.
12:00 – 12:30 Lattices for Space/Belief and Extrusion/Utterance. Stefan Haar, Camilo Rueda, Salim Perchy and Frank Valencia. (brief announcement)

12:30 – 13:30  Lunch Break

Session 4 Concurrency (chair: Ivan Lanese)

13:30 – 14:00 Executable Behaviour and the π-Calculus. Fei Yang and Bas Luttik.
14:00 – 14:30 Analysis of Petri Nets and Transition Systems. Eike Best and Uli Schlachter.
14:30 – 15:00 Reversible Barbed Congruence on Configuration Structures. Clément Aubert and Ioana Cristescu.
15:00 – 15:30 The LTS WorkBench. Alceste Scalas and Massimo Bartoletti. (short paper)

15:30 – 16:00  Coffee Break

Session 5 Expressiveness (chair: Sophia Knight)

16:00 – 16:30 Parameterized Automata Simulation and Application to Service Composition. Walid Belkhir, Yannick Chevalier and Michael Rusinowitch. (brief announcement)
16:30 – 17:00 On the Expressiveness of Joining. Thomas Given-Wilson and Axel Legay.
17:00 – 17:30 On the Computation Power of Name Parameterization in Higher-order Processes. Xian Xu, Qiang Yin and Huan Long.
17:30 – 18:00 Deductive Verification of Parallel Programs Using Why3. César Santos, Vasco T. Vasconcelos and Francisco Martins.

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Previous editions 

  • ICE’08: Synchronous and Asynchronous Interactions held in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP’08. The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol.229-3).
  • ICE’09: Structured Interactions held in Bologna, Italy, co-located with CONCUR’09. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.12) and a special issue of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science was published.
  • ICE’10: Guaranteed Interactions held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, co-located with DisCoTec’10. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.38) and selected papers appeared in a joint special issue of Scientific Annals in Computer Science (with CAMPUS’10 and CS2BIO’10, Vol. XXI).
  • ICE’11: Reliable and Contract-based Interaction held in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with DisCoTec’11. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.59) and selected papers appeared in a special issue of Scientific Annals in Computer Science.
  • ICE’12: Distributed coordination, execution models, and resilient interaction held in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec’12. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.104) and a special issue of Science in Computer Programming is now in press.
  • ICE’13: held in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec’13. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.131) and a special issue of Science in Computer Programming is now in preparation.
  • ICE’14: held in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec’14. The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol.166) and a special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming is now in preparation.