Call for Papers: FormaliSE 2014
2nd FME Workshop on Formal Methods in Software Engineering
held in conjunction with ICSE 2014 (May 31th–June 7th)
Hyderabad, India
NTRODUCTION
IThe 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
ey places makes software engineering overly sensitive to the weaknesses that
the correct behavior of the delivered software. The lack of formalization in
k
are inevitable in the complex activities behind software creation. Aids to
precision in each phase of software development and crosschecking are
n in
both thinking and documenting the preliminary stage of the softwa
essential, and this is precisely one the objectives of formal methods.
Formal methods (FMs) are intended to provide the means for greater precisi
ore creation
process. When done well, this can aid all aspects of software creation: user
requirement formulation, implementation, verification/testing, and the creation
ed by practitioners, and the integration of such tools with
activities that
of documentation. However, the maturing of formal techniques into real-life
software engineering involves providing notations and tools that are readily
understood and u
s are far from the unrealistic assumptions that characterized
some earlier research in formal methods.
After decades of research, and despite significant advancement, formal methods
needs, and its specific role in the software
process. At the same time, from
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 engineerin
g 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.
EST include but are not limited to:
- integration of FMs in the software
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.
AREAS OF INTE
Rdevelopment life cycle
- ability of formal methods to handle real-world problems
- prescriptive/objective guidance in the use of FMs
- Formal methods in a certification context
- “lightweight” or usable FMs
- application experiences
- scalability of FM applications
- experimental validation
e Proceedings Format. They
will be published as part of the (electronic) pro
The program will start with an invited speaker, followed by presentations of
submitted papers. The workshop will end with a round table discussion (PC
members and workshop audience), focusing on the subjects that came up during
the workshop.
SUBMISSIONS are limited to 7 pages in IEEE Conferen
cceedings of ICSE 2013. All
papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished original work and should
not be under review or submitted elsewhere while being under consideration. All
submissions must be in English and in PDF format through online upload to the
workshop submission website at the following URL:
members will review all submissions. Papers will be judged on the basis of
their clarity, relevance, originality, and contribution to the field.
IMPORTANT DATES
24 January 2014: submission deadline for workshop pape
r014: notification of acceptance/rejection to authors
papers
*** Exact date *** 2014: FormaliSE workshop held in H
14 March 2014: camera-ready copy deadline for worksho
pyderabad, India
OC/PC CHAIRS are Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) and Nico Plat (West
vices, India). The OC/PC Chairs can be reached via e-mail:
Consulting BV, The Netherlands). Local organizer is Ravindra Metta (Tata
Consultancy Se
in advance.
OMMITTEE consists of Andreas Bollin (Klagenfurt University,
Austria), Ei
THE PROGRAM
Cnar Broch Johnsen (Oslo University, Norway), Manfred Broy
rk University, UK),
Nancy Day (University of Waterloo, Canada), Cindy Eisner (
(Technical University München, Germany), Ana Cavalcanti (Y
oIBM Haifa Research
Laboratory, Israel) , Alessandro Fantechi (University of Florence, Italy), Jaco
echnology, The Netherlands), Arie Gurfinkel (Carnegie
Mellon University,
Geldenhuys (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) , Jan Friso Groote
(Eindhoven University of
TUSA), Mike Hinchey (Lero, Ireland), Randolph Johnson
(independent consultant, USA), Axel van Lamsweerde (University of Louvain.
France), Yves Ledru
(IMAG, France), Axel Legay (INRIA Rennes, France),
Belgium), Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark), Marc Lawford
(MacMaster University, Canada), Thierry Lecomte (ClearSy,
Antónia Lopes (University of
Lisbon, Portugal), István Majzik (Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, Hungary), Tiziana Margaria (Potsdam University, Germany), Ravindra
Finland) , Sebastián Uchitel (Imperial College and
Universidad de Buenos Aires,
Metta (Tata Consultancy Services, India), Henry Muccini (Universita degli Studi
dell’Aquila, Italy), Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Elena
Troubitsyna (Abo University,
UK and Argentina), Hironori Washizaki (Waseda
France).
University, Japan), and Fatiha Zaïdi (LRI/CNRS,
