13th Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE 2020): 2nd CfP

                 ICE 2020

             13th Interaction and Concurrency Experience 

                             19 June 2020

                 Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2020

                   http://www.discotec.org/2020/ice

                           Submission link:

    https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2020/Workshop/ICE

=== 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

    * Publication in EPTCS

    * Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in

      Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed)

    * Invited speakers:

          - Cinzia Di Giusto (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S, France)

          - Karoliina Lehtinen (University of Liverpool, UK)

=== COVID-19 UPDATE ===

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak, ICE 2020 will be held online, as

the rest of DisCoTec. Accepted papers will be published as planned,

but no physical meeting/presentations will take place. Instead, the

authors of accepted papers will give their talks remotely (or record

their talks if they prefer), and discuss with the conference

participants online. More details will follow.

=== IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED) ===

    * Full papers:

        * 1 May 2020: abstract submission

        * 4 May 2020: paper submission

    * Oral communications and short papers:

        * 8 May 2020: abstract submission

        * 11 May 2020: paper submission

    * 4 June 2020: notification

    * 19-20 June 2020: ICE workshop

    * 13 July 2020: camera-ready for EPTCS post-proceedings

=== SCOPE ===

Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE) 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 nine 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.

ICE adopts a light double-blind reviewing process, detailed below.

=== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via OpenReview:

    https://openreview.net/group?id=DisCoTec.org/2020/Workshop/ICE

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. Research papers should be 3-16 pages plus

      at most 2 pages of references. Short research papers are

      welcome; for example a 5 page short paper fits this category

      perfectly.

    * Oral communications 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 papers of 1-5 pages would be

      appreciated. For example, a one page summary of previously

      published work is welcome in 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 “Oral communications” category need not be

anonymized. For any questions concerning the double blind process,

feel free to consult the ICEcreamers.

We are keen to enhance the balanced, inclusive and diverse nature of

the ICE community, and would particularly encourage female colleagues

and members of other underrepresented groups to submit their work.

=== 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.

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.

=== ICECREAMERS ===

Julien Lange (University of Kent, UK) - [email protected]

Anastasia Mavridou (NASA Ames, USA) - [email protected]

Larisa Safina (Inria, FR) - [email protected]

Alceste Scalas (Aston University, Birmingham, UK) - [email protected]

=== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ===

    * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT)

    * Chiara Bodei (Università di Pisa, Italy)

    * Aimée Borda (Trinity College Dublin, IE)

    * Matteo Cimini (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)

    * Corina Cirstea (University of Southampton, UK)

    * Simon Fowler (University of Edinburgh, UK)

    * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR)

    * Sung-Shik Jongmans (Open University of the Netherlands, NL)

    * Wen Kokke (University of Edinburgh, UK)

    * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT)

    * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK)

    * Diego Marmsoler (University of Exeter, UK)

    * Manuel Mazzara (Innopolis University, RU)

    * Hernán Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires, AR)

    * Claudio Antares Mezzina (University of Urbino, IT)

    * Maurizio Murgia (University of Trento, IT)

    * Rumyana Neykova (Brunel University London, UK)

    * Kirstin Peters (TU Berlin, DE)

    * Johannes Åman Pohjola (Data61/CSIRO, AU)

    * Ivan Prokic (University of Novi Sad, RS)

    * Matteo Sammartino (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK)

    * Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, NO)

    * Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - University of Beira Interior, PT)

    * Laura Voinea (University of Glasgow, UK)

=== STEERING COMMITTEE ===

    * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT)

    * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR)

    * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT)

    * Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK)

    * Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)

    * Hugo Torres Vieira (C4 - University of Beira Interior, PT)

=== MORE INFORMATION ===

For additional information, please contact the ICEcreamers (see email

addresses above).