concur-logo 11th International Workshop on
Developments in Computational Models
DCM 2015
A satellite event of ICTAC 2015
28 October 2015, Universidad Javeriana, Cali - Colombia

Registration: see ICTAC 2015 Registration

Preliminary program

EPTCS Proceedings (Volume 204)

Several new models of computation have emerged in the last few years, and many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in a new family of programming languages, and new paradigms of software development.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area.

DCM 2015 will be a one-day satellite event of the 12th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing (ICTAC 2015), and will take place at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Cali. This will be the 11th event in the series since 2005 - see the DCM website for details of previous events.

Topics of Interest top

Topics of interest include all abstract models of computation and their applications to the development of programming languages and systems. This includes (but is not limited to):

  • Functional calculi: lambda-calculus, rho-calculus, term and graph rewriting;
  • quantum computation, including implementations and formal methods in quantum protocols;
  • probabilistic computation and verification in modelling situations;
  • chemical, biological and bio-inspired computation, including spatial models, self-assembly, growth models;
  • models of concurrency, including the treatment of mobility, trust, and security;
  • infinitary models of computation;
  • information-theoretic ideas in computing.

Submissions and Publication top

Submit your paper in PDF format via the conference EasyChair submission page.

Submissions should be an abstract of at most 5 pages, written in English. Simultaneous submission to journals, conferences or other workshops is not permitted.

Please use the EPTCS macro package and follow the instructions of EPTCS: EPTCS, following the EPTCS style.

A submission may contain an appendix, but reading the appendix should not be necessary to assess its merits.

After the workshop authors are invited to submit a full paper of their presentation. Accepted contributions will appear in an issue of EPTCS.

Important Dates top

Submission Deadline for Extended Abstracts: 17 August 2015 (extended)
Notification: 13 September 2015
Pre-proceedings version due: 5 October 2015
Workshop: 28 October 2015
Submission Deadline for EPTCS Proceedings : 7 December 2015

Programme Committee top

Mario Benevides Brazil
Luís Caires Portugal
Ugo Dal Lago Italy
Nachum Dershowitz Israel
Jérôme Feret France
Marcelo Frias Argentina
Russ Harmer France
Ivan Lanese Italy
Radu Mardare Denmark
Elvira Mayordomo Spain
César A. Muñoz (co-chair) USA
Jorge A. Pérez (co-chair) The Netherlands
Andrés Sicard-Ramírez Colombia
Alexandra Silva UK
Daniele Varacca France

Invited Speakers top

Mauricio Ayala Rincón, Universidade de Brasilia (Brazil).
Formalising Confluence.

Confluence is a critical property of computational systems which is related with determinism and non ambiguity and thus with other relevant computational attributes of functional specifications and rewriting system as termination and completion. Several criteria have been explored that guarantee confluence and their formalisations provide further interesting information. This talk will discuss topics related with the formalisation of confluence properties in the prototype verification system PVS.


Gilles Dowek, INRIA (France).
Discrete version of special and general relativistic trajectories
(joint work with Pablo Arrighi)

If we assume information has a bounded density and a bounded velocity, physical phenomena should have a description in terms of cellular automata. In this talk, I will describe several attempts to describe the trajectories of bodies in Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, and general relativity with cellular automata. Interestingly, the local nature of relativity make it more amenable to a description in terms of cellular automata than Newtonian mechanics.


Pawel Sobocinski, University of Southampton (UK).
Compositional model checking of concurrent systems, with Petri nets

(joint work with Julian Rathke and Owen Stephens)

Compositionality and process equivalence are both standard concepts of process algebra. Compositionality means that the behaviour of a compound system relies only on the behaviour of its components, i.e. there is no emergent behaviour. Process equivalence means that the explicit statespace of a system takes a back seat to its interaction patterns: the information that an environment can obtain though interaction.

Petri nets are a classical, yet widely used and understood, model of concurrency. Nevertheless, they have often been described as a non-compositional model, and tools tend to deal with monolithic, globally-specified models.

In this talk I will introduce Petri Nets with Boundaries (PNB), which is a compositional, graphical algebra of elementary net systems, an important class of Petri nets. I will show that compositionality and process equivalence are a powerful combination that can be harnessed to improve the performance of checking reachability and coverability in several common examples where Petri nets model realistic concurrent systems.

Contact top

co-chairs

Workshop web page: http://dcm-workshop.org.uk/2015

Call for Papers (PDF)

Poster (PDF)

Topics of interest

Submissions

Important Dates

Programme Committee

Invited Speakers

Contact

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