PSI'09
A.P.Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems
Seventh International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference «PERSPECTIVES OF SYSTEM INFORMATICS»
eng rus

15 - 19 June, 2009, Novosibirsk, Akademgorodok, Russia

Call for Papers

 

Organized by:

A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems of the Siberian Division of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IIS SB RAS)
Novosibirsk State University

Sponsored by:

Russian Foundation for Basic Research
Office of Naval Research Global
Intel
HP Lab
Google
Microsoft Research
Formal Methods Europe
Semantic Technology Institute (STI) Innsbruck
MC R&D Center, St. Petersburg
Sun Microsystems

Aims and Scope

PSI is a forum for academic and industrial researchers, developers and users working on topics relating to computer, software and information sciences. The conference serves to bridge the gaps between different communities whose research areas are covered by but not limited to foundations of program and system development and analysis, programming methodology and software engineering, and information technologies. The PSI forum provides a venue for such communities at which common problems, methods and methodologies can be discussed and explored. In doing so, PSI aims to support researchers in their quest to improve the reliability, flexibility and efficiency of methods, algorithms and tools for developing computer, software and information systems. The first six conferences were held in 1991, 1996, 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2006, respectively, and proved to be significant international events.

The PSI'09 Conference is dedicated to the memory of a prominent scientist academician A.P. Ershov and to a significant date in the history of computer science in the country, namely, to the 50th anniversary of the Programming Department founded by him. Initially, the Department was a part of the Institute of Mathematics and later, in 1964, it joined the newly established Computing Center of the Siberian Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. A.P. Ershov, who was responsible for forming the Department, gathered a team of young graduates from the leading Soviet universities. The first significant project of the Department was aimed at the development of ALPHA system, an optimizing compiler for an extension of Algol 60 implemented on a Soviet computer M-20. Later the researchers of the Department created the Algibr, Epsilon, Sigma, and Alpha-6 programming systems for the BESM-6 computers. The list of their achievements also includes the first Soviet time-sharing system AIST-0, the multi-language system BETA, research projects in artificial intelligence and parallel programming, the integrated tools for text processing and publishing, and many others. The scope of problems facing the Programming Department was widening in time, its organizational structure changed and there appeared new research directions, school informatics and mixed computation among them. Founded in 1990, the Institute of Informatics Systems is justly considered to be a successor of the Programming Department keeping its main research directions and maintaining its best traditions.

Conference Chair

Alexander Marchuk
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems & Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Steering Committee

Members:

Honorary Members:

Programme Committee Chairs

  • Amir Pnueli
    New York University, USA & The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
  • Irina Virbitskaite
    A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems & Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • Andrei Voronkov
    The University of Manchester, UK

Conference Secretary

Natalia Cheremnykh
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems
6, Acad. Lavrentjev pr.
630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
tel.: +7 383 3307352
fax: +7 383 3323494
e-mail: psi09@iis.nsk.su; cher@iis.nsk.su;

Conference Topics

Conference topics include:

  1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis
  • specification, validation, and verification techniques,
  • program analysis, transformation and synthesis,
  • semantics, logic and formal models of programs,
  • partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler construction,
  • theorem proving and model checking,
  • concurrency theory,
  • modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems,
  • computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics.
  1. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering
  • object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming,
  • programming by contract,
  • program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing,
  • constraint programming,
  • multi-agent technology,
  • system re-engineering and reuse,
  • integrated programming environments,
  • software architectures,
  • software development and testing,
  • model-driven system/software development,
  • agile software development,
  • software engineering methods and tools,
  • program understanding and visualization.
  1. Information Technologies
  • data models,
  • database and information systems,
  • knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering,
  • bioinformatics engineering,
  • ontologies and semantic Web,
  • digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing,
  • peer-to-peer data management.

In addition to papers in the above list of topics, papers both bridging the gap between different directions and promoting mutual understanding of researchers are welcome. Papers defining the general prospects in computer science are also encouraged.

Programme Committee Members

Invited Speakers

 

Samson Abramsky

Samson Abramsky
(Oxford University, UK)

Dines Bjørner

Dines Bjørner
(Technical University of Denmark, Denmark),
FME Invited Lecturer

Kim Guldstrand Larsen

Kim Guldstrand Larsen
(Aalborg University, Denmark)

Wolfram Schulte

Wolfram Schulte
(Microsoft Research, USA)

Lothar Thiele

Lothar Thiele
(ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

 

Submissions

Paper Submissions must:

  • Contain original contributions that have not been published or submitted to other conferences/journals in parallel with this conference.
  • Clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other works.
  • Be in PS or PDF and formatted according to Springer LNCS Instructions for Authors: http://www.springeronline.com
  • Have a length that does not exceed 12 pages for a regular paper and 7 pages for a short paper.
  • Be in English and in a form that can be immediately included in the proceedings without major revision.
  • Be sent electronically (as a PostScript or PDF file) using website http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=psi09 not later than February 15, 2009.

Conference Proceedings

A preliminary book of tutorial, invited and accepted contributions will be available at the conference. The final versions of the papers presented at the conference will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series after the conference. One can find the proceedings of the previous five conferences in LNCS, Vol. 1181, 1755, 2244, 2890 and 4378, respectively. Information on the previous conference and some pictures can be found at the conference web site: http://psi.iis.nsk.su/psi06/index_e.shtml.

Location

The conference will be held in Akademgorodok (Academy town), 30 km South from Novosibirsk, the largest city of Siberia. Akademgorodok is located in a picturesque place near the Ob lake. It is surrounded with birch and pine forests and pleasant not only for work but for recreation as well. Silence, beautiful landscape, and pure air are the factors promoting scientific activity and creativity.

More about Novosibirsk
More about Akademgorodok

Travelling

You can fly to Novosibirsk via Moscow by Aeroflot, Transaero or S7. Direct S7 flights will bring you from Frankfurt, Hannover, Seoul or Beijing to Novosibirsk and back. Now you can buy electronic tickets on Aeroflot, S7 and Transaero flights via the websites and pay by VISA and other popular cards. All participants will be met at the Novosibirsk airport and brought to Akademgorodok by a special transport.

S7 Airlines
Aeroflot
Transaero

Weather

The weather in Novosibirsk in the middle of June is normally quite warm and sunny with the temperatures in the range of 25-30 C. Night swimming in the Ob lake is guaranteed.

Weather in Novosibirsk

Satellite Workshops

N.B. Four satellite workshops will be held in conjunction with PSI'09:

Important Dates

  • February 28, 2009: submission deadline
  • April 2, 2009: notification of acceptance
  • 15 - 19 June, 2009: the conference dates
  • September 1, 2009: final papers due.

Pictures of PSI'09

In the 19th of June the PSI'09 conference finished its sessions; so did the Program Understanding working seminar held as part of the conference in the Altai Mountains on June 19-23. During the conference the participants and organizers took hundreds of pictures. We have compiled a gallery of pictures showing PSI'09 sessions, events, partcipants, and the beautiful nature of the Altai Mountains.

Dear participants of the Conference! If you wish to place your photographs in the gallery, please contact the PSI'09 site webmaster at webmaster@iis.nsk.su, and we will gladly provide you with the necessary instructions.


Important Dates

  • February 28, 2009: submission deadline
  • April 2, 2009: notification of acceptance
  • 15 - 19 June, 2009: the conference dates
  • September 1, 2009: final papers due

Archive:

PSI'99

Third International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference

PSI'01

Fourth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference

PSI'03

Fifth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference

PSI'06

Sixth International Andrei Ershov Memorial Conference


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