[Om-announce] ICE 2024: First Call for Papers

[Violet Ka I Pun]

                              ICE 2024
            17th Interaction and Concurrency Experience
                       June 21, 2024, Groningen
                Satellite workshop of DisCoTec 2024

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The Interaction and Concurrency Experience (ICE) series of
international scientific meetings are a forum for computer science
researchers with research interests in models, verification, tools,
and programming primitives for complex interactions.


=== 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
   * New this year: two-round paper submission.
   * Publication in EPTCS (to be confirmed)
   * Special issue in the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in
     Programming (Elsevier) (to be confirmed)
   * Two invited speakers (to be confirmed)

=== IMPORTANT DATES ===

   - March 27th, 2024           : Abstract submission deadline
   - April 3rd, 2024            : 1st paper submission deadline
   - April 12nd, 2024           : 2nd paper submission deadline (no abstract needed)
   - April 3rd -- May 1st, 2024 : Forum interaction, reviews, and PC discussion
   - May 8th, 2024              : Notification to authors
   - June 21st 2024             : Workshop in Groningen, The Netherlands
   - July 20th, 2024            : Camera-ready for post-proceedings
   - October, 2024 (tentative)  : Invitation to special issue

All dates are in the anywhere on Earth time zone, and deadlines are firm.


=== SCOPE ===

The general scope of the workshop is interaction and concurrency,
broadly construed. The workshop welcomes contributions spanning the
spectrum from theoretical models to practical implementations and
empirical studies. Topics of interest include (but are 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

Prospective authors are welcome to contact the chairs for advice on
whether their proposed submission is in scope.

=== 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 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.

This year, ICE implements a two-round paper submission procedure, 
with the understanding that all deadlines are now firm, and that 
papers submitted during the second round will have less time for
discussion and feedback.

=== SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ===

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via hotcrp:

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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 or workshops with
     refereed proceedings. Research papers should be 3-16 pages
     (references not included). Short research papers are
     welcome; for example a 5 page short paper fits this category
     perfectly. The submitted PDF can use any LaTeX style (but the
     post-proceedings will use the EPTCS style).

   * 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 (to be confirmed).

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 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 on the ICE website.


=== ICECREAMERS (PC co-chairs) ===

   * Clément Aubert (Augusta University, USA) - aubert at math.cnrs.fr
   * Cinzia Di Giusto (Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, FR) - cinzia.di-giusto at unice.fr
   * Simon Fowler (University of Glasgow, GB-SCT) - simon.fowler at glasgow.ac.uk
   * Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NO) - Violet.Ka.I.Pun at hvl.no

Use ice at framalistes.org to reach all the ICEcreamers at once.


=== PROGRAM COMMITTEE ===

   * Matthew Alan Le Brun, University of Glasgow 
   * Kirstin Peters, Augsburg University 
   * Carla Ferreira, NOVA University Lisbon 
   * Eva Graversen, University of Southern Denmark 
   * Bas van den Heuvel, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences / University of Freiburg 
   * Gerard Tabone, University of Malta 
   * Ping Hou, University of Oxford 
   * Sergueï Lenglet, Université de Lorraine - Université Sorbonne Paris-Nord 
   * Emanuele D'Osualdo, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems 
   * Seyed Hossein Haeri, IOG & University of Bergen 
   * Ivan Prokić, Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad 
   * Luc Edixhoven, Open University of the Netherlands 
   * Felix Stutz, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
   * Lorenzo Gheri, University of Liverpool 
   * Andreia Mordido, LASIGE, University of Lisbon 

=== STEERING COMMITTEE ===

   * Massimo Bartoletti (University of Cagliari, IT)
   * Ludovic Henrio (ENS Lyon, FR)
   * Sophia Knight (University of Minnesota Duluth, USA)
   * Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna, IT)
   * Alceste Scalas (Technical University of Denmark, DK)
   * Hugo Torres Vieira (Evidence Srl, IT)


=== MORE INFORMATION ===

For additional information, please contact the ICEcreamers at
ice at framalistes.org
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