FME Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering held in conjunction with ICSE 2013

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: FormaliSE 2013
FME Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering
held in conjunction with ICSE 2013
Saturday 25 May 2013, San Francisco, USA
http://www.formalise.org/
 
 
WORKSHOP SCOPE
The software industry has a long-standing and well-earned reputation for failing to
deliver on its promises and it is clear that still nowadays, the success of software
projects with the current technologies cannot be assured.
 
For large complex projects ad hoc approaches have proven inadequate to assure the
correct behavior of the delivered software. The lack of formalization in key places
makes software engineering overly sensitive to the weaknesses that are inevitable in
the complex activities behind software creation. Aids to precision in each phase of
software development and crosschecking are essential, and this is precisely one the
objectives of formal methods.
 
After decades of research, and despite significant advancement, formal methods are
still not widely used in industrial software development. This may be due to the
fact that the formal methods community has not enough focused its attention to
software engineering needs, and its specific role in the software process. At the
same time, from a software engineering perspective, there could be a number of
fundamental principles that might help to guide the design of formal methods in
order to make them more easily applicable in the development of software
applications.
 
The main goal of the workshop is to foster integration between the formal methods
and the software engineering communities with the purpose to examine the link
between the two more carefully than is currently the case.
 
PROGRAM
Invited keynote: Though this be madness, yet there is method in it?
Alan Wassyng (McMaster University, Canada)
 
Session 1: Specification
Do You Speak Z? Formal Methods under the Perspective of a Cross-Cultural Adaptation
Problem
Andreas Bollin (Alpen-Adria Universitat, Austria)
 
Session 2: Verification
Functional SMT solving with Z3 and Racket
Siddharth Agarwal and Amey Karkare (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India)
 
Trace Based Reachability Verification for Statecharts
Kumar Madhukar, Ravindra Metta, Ulka Shrotri and R. Venkatesh (Tata Consultancy
Services, India)
 
An Integrated Data Model Verifier with Property Templates
Jaideep Nijjar, Ivan Bocic and Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa
Barbera, USA)
 
Session 3: Application of Formal Methods
Towards a Formalism-Based Toolkit for Automotive Applications
Rainer Gmehlich, Katrin Grau, Felix Loesch, Alexei Iliasov, Michael Jackson and
Manuel Mazzara
 
Recommendations for Improving the Usability of Formal Methods for Product Lines
Joanne M. Atlee, Sandy Beidu, Nancy A. Day, Fathiyeh Faghih and Pourya Shaker
(University of Waterloo, Canada)
 
Lightweight Formal Models of Software Weaknesses
Robin Gandhi, Harvey Siy and Yan Wu (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
 
Session 4: Timed systems
Automatic Validation of Infinite Real-Time Systems
Thomas Göthel and Sabine Glesner (Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany)
 
A framework for the rigorous design of highly adaptive timed systems
Louis-Marie Traonouez, Axel Legay, Maxime Cordy and Pierre-Yves Schobbens
(University of Namur, Belgium, and INRIA Rennes, France)
 
Closing: Round table and discussion
 
For more details see www.formalise.org,
 
REGISTRATION for the workshop is open, see
http://2013.icse-conferences.org/content/registration (early registration with
reduced rates closes on 14 April 2013).
 
For HOTELS and VENUE see http://2013.icse-conferences.org/content/venue
 
OC/PC CHAIRS
Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Nico Plat (West Consulting BV, The Netherlands).
The OC/PC Chairs can be reached via e-mail: oc@formalise.org.
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
* Yamine Ait-Ameur (IRIT/ENSEEIHT, France)
* Manfred Broy (Technical University München, Germany)
* Jürgen Dingel (Queen's University, Canada)
* Cindy Eisner (IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel)
* Arie Gurfinkel (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
* Patrick Heymans (University of Namur, Belgium, and INRIA, France)
* Alessandro Fantechi (Università di Firenze, Italy)
* Connie Heitmeyer (Naval Research Laboratory, USA)
* Mike Hinchey (Lero, Ireland)
* Axel van Lamsweerde (University of Louvain. Belgium)
* Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
* Marc Lawford (MacMaster University, Canada)
* Thierry Lecomte (ClearSy, France)
* Yves Ledru (IMAG, France)
* Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
* Tiziana Margaria (Potsdam University, Germany)
* Henry Muccini (Università dell’Aquila, Italy)
* Isabelle Perseil (Inserm, France)
* Steve Riddle (University of Newcastle, UK)
* Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
* Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft, USA)
* Elena Troubitsyna (Abo University, Finland)
* Sebastián Uchitel (Imperial College and Universidad de Buenos Aires)
* Willem Visser (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
* Fatiha Zaïdi (LRI/CNRS, France)
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