ICE 2017
10th Interaction and Concurrency Experience
June 22, 2017, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2017 (to be confirmed)
http://2017.discotec.org
Highlights
- Distinctive selection procedure
- ICE welcomes full papers to be included in the proceedings
- ICE also welcomes oral communications of already published or preliminary work
- Submission deadlines: April 3 (abstract) and April 10 (full)
- Invited talks: TBA
- Publication in EPTCS (to be confirmed)
- Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed)
Important Dates
April 3, 2017.........................Abstract submission
April 10, 2017........................Full paper submission
April 10-May 19, 2017.................Reviews and PC discussion
May 19, 2017..........................Notification to authors
June 22, 2017.........................ICE in Neuchâtel
July 15, 2017.........................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
* Coinductive 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, friendly, and constructive discussion amongst authors and
PC members in an online forum.
During the review phase, each submission is published in a dedicated
discussion forum. The discussion forum can be accessed by the authors
of the submission and by all PC members not in conflict with the
submission (the forum preserves anonymity). The forum is used by
reviewers to ask questions, clarifications, and modifications from the
authors, allowing them better to explain and to improve all 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 eight 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.
This year we will adopt a light double-blind reviewing process, detailed below.
Submission Guidelines
We invite two types of submissions:
- Research papers, original contributions that will be published in
the workshop post-proceedings. Research papers must not be
simultaneously submitted to other conferences/workshops with refereed
proceedings. The page limit for research papers is 16 pages + 2 pages of
references.
- Oral communications, that will be presented at the workshop, but
will not appear in the post-proceedings. This type of contribution
includes e.g. previously published contributions, preliminary work, and
position papers. There is no strict page limit for this kind of
submission but submissions of at most five pages would be appreciated. A
one page summary of previously published work also perfectly fits this
category.
Authors of research papers must omit their names and institutions
from the title page, they should refer to their other work in the third
person and omit acknowledgements that could reveal their identity or
affiliation. The purpose is to avoid any bias based on authors’ identity
characteristics, such as gender, seniority, or nationality, in the
review process. Our goal is to facilitate an unbiased approach to
reviewing by supporting reviewers’ access to works that do not carry
obvious references to the authors’ identities. As mentioned above, this
is a lightweight double-blind process. Anonymization should not be a
heavy burden for authors, and should not make papers weaker or more
difficult to review. Advertising the paper on alternate forums (e.g., on
a personal web-page, pre-print archive, email, talks, discussions with
colleagues) is permitted, and authors will not be penalized by for such
advertisement.
Papers in the “Communications” category need not be anonymized. For
any questions concerning the double blind process, feel free to consult
the ICEcreamers.
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ice2017).
Publications
Accepted research papers and communications must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.
Accepted research papers will be published after the workshop in
Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
(http://eptcs.org/).
We plan to invite authors of selected papers and brief announcements
to submit their work in 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 published and in preparation special issues of previous ICE editions
is reported below.
Invited Speakers
TBA
Program Committee
Lacramioara Astefanoaei (Technical University of Munich, DE)
Eduard Baranov (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH)
Franco Barbanera (University of Catania, IT)
Henning Basold (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)
Stefano Calzavara (University Ca’ Foscari Venezia, IT)
Marco Carbone (IT University of Copenhagen, DK)
Vincenzo Ciancia (ISTI CNR Pisa, IT)
Matteo Cimini (Indiana University, USA)
Tiziana Cimoli (University of Cagliari, IT)
Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, IT)
Tobias Heindel (University of Copenhagen, DK)
Anastasia Mavridou (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH)
Christos Kloukinas (City University London, UK)
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT)
Michael Lienhardt (University of Turin, IT)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK)
Julien Lange (Imperial College London, UK)
Jean Marie Madiot (INRIA Paris, FR)
Hernán Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR)
Fabrizio Montesi (University of Southern Denmark, DK)
Dominic Orchard (University of Kent, UK)
Johannes Åman Pohjola (Chalmers University, SE)
Jurriaan Rot (Radboud University Nijmegen, NL)
Alceste Scalas (Imperial College London, UK)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, AT)
Anke Stüber (Uppsala University, SE)
Hugo Torres Vieira (IMT Lucca, IT)
Roberto Zunino (University of Trento, IT)
ICEcreamers
Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT; PC co-chair)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, Sophia Antipolis, FR)
Sophia Knight (Uppsala University, SE; PC co-chair)
Steering Committee
Simon Bliudze (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH)
Filippo Bonchi (CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, FR)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, IT)
Alexandra Silva (University College London, UK)
Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, US)
Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK)
Previous editions
The previous eight editions of ICE have been held on
* July 6, 2008 in Reykjavik, Iceland, co-located with ICALP'08. The post-proceedings were published in ENTCS (vol. 229-3).
* August 31, 2009 in Bologna, Italy, co-located with CONCUR'09. The
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 12) and selected papers
appeared in a joint special issue of MSCS (with EXPRESS’09 and SOS’09,
Vol. 22, Number 2).
* June 10, 2010 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 SACS (with
CAMPUS'10 and CS2BIO'10, Vol. XXI).
* June 9, 2011 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 SACS (Vol. XXII).
* June 16, 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden, co-located with DisCoTec'12.
The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 104) and selected
papers appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 100).
* June 6, 2013 in Florence, Italy, co-located with DisCoTec’13. The
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 131) and selected papers
appeared in a special issue of SCP (vol. 109).
* June 6, 2014 in Berlin, Germany, co-located with DisCoTec’14. The
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 166) and selected papers
appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 85, Number 3).
* June 4-5, 2015 in Grenoble, France, co-located with DisCoTec’15.
The post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 189) and selected
papers appeared in a special issue of JLAMP (Vol. 86, Number 1).
* June 21-22, in Heraklion, Greece, co-located with DisCoTec’16. The
post-proceedings were published in EPTCS (vol. 223) and a special issue
of JLAMP is in preparation.
