8-10 Sep 2021
========================= SCSS 2021 The 9th International Symposium on Symbolic Computation in Software Science -- In the era of Computational and Artificial Intelligence -- September 8--10, 2021, virtual Organized by RISC, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria https://www.risc.jku.at/conferences/scss2021/ ========================= Overview -------- Symbolic Computation is the science of computing with symbolic objects (terms, formulae, programs, representations of algebraic objects etc.). Powerful algorithms have been developed during the past decades for the major subareas of symbolic computation: computer algebra and computational logic. These algorithms and methods are successfully applied in various fields, including software science, which covers a broad range of topics about software construction and analysis. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence methods and machine learning algorithms are widely used nowadays in various domains and, in particular, combined with symbolic computation. Several approaches mix artificial intelligence and symbolic methods and tools deployed over large corpora to create what is known as cognitive systems. Cognitive computing focuses on building systems which interact with humans naturally by reasoning, aiming at learning at scale. The purpose of SCSS 2021 is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of symbolic computation in software science, combined with modern artificial intelligence techniques. Scope ------ SCSS 2021 solicits submissions on all aspects of symbolic computation and their applications in software science, in combination with artificial intelligence and cognitive computing techniques. The topics of the symposium include, but are not limited to the following: - automated reasoning, knowledge reasoning, common-sense reasoning and reasoning in science - algorithm (program) synthesis and/or verification, alignment and joint processing of formal, semi-formal, and informal libraries. - formal methods for the analysis of network and system security - termination analysis and complexity analysis of algorithms (programs) - extraction of specifications from algorithms (programs) - theorem proving methods and techniques, collaboration between automated and interactive theorem proving - proof carrying code - generation of inductive assertion for algorithm (programs) - algorithm (program) transformations - combinations of linguistic/learning-based and semantic/reasoning methods - formalization and computerization of knowledge (maths, medicine, economy, etc.) - methods for large-scale computer understanding of mathematics and science - artificial intelligence, machine learning and big-data methods in theorem proving and mathematics - formal verification of artificial intelligence and machine learning algorithms, explainable artificial intelligence, symbolic artificial intelligence - cognitive computing, cognitive vision, perception systems and artificial reasoners for robotics - component-based programming - computational origami - query languages (in particular for XML documents) - semantic web and cloud computing Important Dates --------------- May 18: title and single-paragraph abstract submission deadline. May 25: paper submission deadline. July 12: notification deadline. July 30: final paper submission deadline. September 8-10, 2021: the symposium dates (virtual). Invited Speakers ------ Tateaki Sasaki (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) More speakers will be announced. General Chairs ----- Adel Bouhoula (Arabian Gulf University, Bahrain) Tetsuo Ida (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Program Chair ----- Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Program Committee --------- David Cerna (Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, and Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Changbo Chen (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Rachid Echahed (CNRS, Grenoble, France) Seyed Hossein Haeri (UC Louvain, Belgium) Cezary Kaliszyk (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Yukiyoshi Kameyama (University of Tsukuba, Japan) Michael Kohlhase (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany) Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) (Chair) Zied Lachiri (ENIT, University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia) Christopher Lynch (Clarkson University, USA) Mircea Marin ( West University of Timisoara, Romania) Yasuhiko Minamide (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan) Yoshihiro Mizoguchi (Kyushu University, Japan) Julien Narboux (Strasbourg University, France) Michaël Rusinowitch (INRIA, France) Wolfgang Schreiner (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) Sofiane Tahar (Concordia University, Canada) Dongming Wang (CNRS, Paris, France) To be extended. Submission ---------- Submission is via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scss2021 Original submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and tool papers. We recommend to use the EPTCS Class format to prepare manuscripts. Regular research papers must not exceed 12 pages with up to 3 additional pages for technical appendices. Tool papers must not exceed 6 pages. They should include information about a URL from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed on-line. Publication ----------- The proceedings of SCSS 2021 will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). A special issue of Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (AMAI) will be organized after the symposium. 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