Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Jean-Raymond Abrial at ICTAC 2015
http://www.ictac2015.co/http://www.ictac2015.co/
One ot the invited speakers :
One ot the invited speakers :
Jean-Raymond Abrial
Consultant (France)
Jean-Raymond Abrial is a French computer scientist, widely known as the co-inventor of various formal approaches to software specification: Z, B and Event-B.
He is the author of the "B-book" (Cambridge University Press, 1996), which presents the B-Method. More recently, he published the book "Modeling in Event-B: System and Software Engineering" (Cambridge University Press 2010). He was Guest Professor at ETH Zurich from 2004 to 2007, where he led the team developing the Rodin Platform tool for Event-B (funded by the European Project "Rodin"). After that, he was a researcher, also at ETH Zurich, working on the European Project "Deploy" until May 2009.
Jean-Raymond Abrial has been invited to give courses on formal methods in various Chinese Universities (Peking University in Beijing, East China Normal University in Shanghai). Before Zurich, he was a consultant for more than 20 years working in close contact with several industrial companies and universities around the world.
Friday, September 18, 2015
ABZ 2016
http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/call4papers/
The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of six related state-based and machine-based formal methods, Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. It builds on the success of the first ABZ conference held in London in 2008, where the ASM, B and Z conference series merged into a single event, the second ABZ 2010 conference held in Orford (Canada), where the Alloy community joined the event, the ABZ 2012 held in Pisa (Italy), which saw the inclusion of the VDM community, and ABZ 2014 held in Toulouse (France), which brought the inclusion of the TLA community into the ABZ conference series. The ABZ 2016 conference will be held in Linz, Austria.
Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and industrial applications. The program spans from theoretical and methodological foundations to practical applications, emphasizing system engineering methods and tools that are distinguished by mathematical rigor and have proved to be industrially viable. The main goal of the conference is to contribute to the integration of accurate state- and machine-based system development methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation, mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems.
Although organized to host several formal methods with ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, in a single event, editorial control of the joint conference is vested in one integrated program committee, which will respectively determine its ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z content, to be presented in parallel conference tracks with a schedule to allow the participants to switch between the sessions.
As successfully practiced at ABZ 2014, the 5th edition of ABZ will include again special sessions dedicated to a shared real-life case study among all the methods addressed in ABZ 2016. The objective of this session is to enrich the set of case studies developed with ABZ methods with a practical and real-life case study. After the success of the “Landing Gear” case study at ABZ 2014 in the aeronautical context this time the organizers defined a real-life case study issued from the medical domain with challenging safety requirements. The ABZ 2016 case study emphasizes the control of a hemodialysis machine. See http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ ABZ2016/HD-CaseStudy.pdf for a detailed description of this case study.
Submission of Papers
Proposals are invited for workshops and tutorials to take place before the main conference.
Four kinds of contributions are invited:
- Research papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere.
- Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations. This is an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and validate their work in progress. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed.
- Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with any of the state based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2016.
- Application in industry papers reporting on work or experiences on the application of state based formal methods in industry. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed. It is also an interesting option for industrial practitioners who sometimes face too many constraints to prepare a full paper.
Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF at the ABZ 2016 conference submission website (Easy Chair).
The papers must be prepared using the SPRINGER LNCS style. The answers to case study should be submitted electronically in PDF at the ABZ 2016 case study submission website (Easy Chair)".
All research and short accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer's LNCS series. The answers to case study papers and the application in industry papers will be published in a volume of Springer's CCIS series. The two volumes will be distributed at the conference.
Journal Special Issues
It is planned that an improved version of a selected number of contributions will be published in a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming for the research papers and in a special issue of the Software Tools and Technology Transfer journal for the answers to case study papers (to be confirmed).
Workshop Proposals
Workshops and tutorials will be associated to the main event ABZ. Proposals are solicited in areas related to the conference topics. Workshop proposal should be sent to the workshop chairs.
The deadline for submissions is October 16, 2015. Notifications will be sent by November 6, 2015.
Tutorial Proposals
Tutorial proposal should be sent to the tutorial chairs.
The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2016. Notifications will be sent by March 14, 2016.
Important Dates
| Research paper and answers to case study submission: | January 15, 2016 |
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| Short paper submission: | February 04, 2016 |
| Workshop proposal submissions: | October 16, 2015 |
| Workshop proposal notifications: | November 06, 2015 |
| Tutorial proposal submissions: | February 15, 2016 |
| Acceptance notification: | February 22, 2016 |
| Tutorial proposal notifications: | March 14, 2016 |
| Final Version due: | March 14, 2016 |
| Main ABZ 2016 conference: | May 23-27, 2016 |
Program Committee Chairs
- Michael BUTLER, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
- Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz and Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Linz/Hagenberg, Austria
Case Study Chairs
- Atif Mashkoor, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria (atif.mashkoor@scch.at)
- Miklos Biro, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria (miklos.biro@scch.at)
Tutorial Chairs
- Vincenzo Gervasi, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy (gervasi@di.unipi.it)
- Michael Leuschel, Universität Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany (leuschel@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de)
Workshop Chairs
- Yamine Ait-Ameur, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France (yamine@enseeiht.fr)
- Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, Nancy, France (stephan.merz@loria.fr)
- Alexander Raschke, Universität Ulm, Ulm, Germany (alexander.raschke@uni-ulm.de)
Program Committee
Program committee will be announced at a later date.
Conference Organizers
- Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz and Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Linz/Hagenberg, Austria (Klaus-Dieter.Schewe@scch.at)
- Atif Mashkoor, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria (atif.mashkoor@scch.at)
- Mariam Rady, Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz (m.rady@cdcc.faw.jku.at)
- Mircea Boris VLEJU (webmaster), Johannes-Kepler-Universität Linz (b.vleju@cdcc.faw.jku.at)
- Martina Höller, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria (martina.hoeller@scch.at)
For questions concerning ABZ 2016, contact Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE (Klaus-Dieter.Schewe@scch.at).
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
Conférence de J-R Abrial au Collège de France, avril 2015
http://www.college-de-france.fr/site/gerard-berry/seminar-2015-04-01-17h30.htm
Spécification, construction et vérification de programmes : le parcours d'une pensée scientifique sur une trentaine d'années
Monday, March 2, 2015
2015 Refinement Workshop at FM 2015 in Oslo
Call for Papers: 2015 Refinement Workshop at FM 2015 in Oslo
22 June 2015, colocated with FM 2015 at Oslo
www.refinenet.org.uk/ref15/
Refinement is one of the cornerstones of a formal approach to software
engineering: the process of developing a more detailed design or
implementation from an abstract specification through a sequence of
mathematically-based steps that maintain correctness with respect to the
original specification.
The aim of this BCS FACS Refinement Workshop, is to bring together
people who are interested in the development of more concrete designs or
executable programs from abstract specifications using formal notations,
tool support for formal software development, and practical experience
with formal refinement methodologies.
The purpose of the workshop is to provide a forum for the exchange of
ideas, and discussion of common ground and key differences.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Simulation techniques
Foundations and semantics
Case studies (specification and verification)
Compositional and modular reasoning
Object-orientation
Time, Probability, Hybrid Systems
Specification notations
Programming models
Verification and tool support
Proceedings
Submissions will be reviewed, workshop proceedings will be published,
likely in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, like
the 2013 and 2011 editions.
It is anticipated that selected papers from this workshop will be published
in extended versions in a special edition of a major international journal,
in line with the special issues in FACJ and SCP that have appeared for
workshop editions since 2003.
Key Dates
Abstract Submission: 21 March 2015
Paper Submission: 28 March 2015
Notification: 22 April 2015
Workshop: 22 June 2015
Submissions
Submissions can be made via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ref2015.
There is no prescribed format for submissions but accepted papers will
need to use the EPTCS LaTeX macro package, see EPTCS info for authors:
http://info.eptcs.org/
Papers should be no more than 16 pages.
History of the workshop
This 17th Refinement Workshop continues a long tradition in refinement
workshops run under the auspices of the British Computer Society (BCS)
FACS special interest group. Running since 1988, previous refinement
workshops have been held at Cambridge, London, Bath etc.
In 1998 the BCS refinement workshop was combined with the Australasian
Refinement Workshop to form the International Refinement Workshop,
hosted alongside Formal Methods Pacific 1998 at The Australian National
University. In 2002, the Refinement Workshop was held as an FME workshop
in Copenhagen. This and seven subsequent editions (Surrey, Macau,
Oxford, Turku, Eindhoven, Limerick, Turku) have had proceedings in ENTCS
or EPTCS and a subsequent journal special issue or selected journal
papers (most in Formal Aspects of Computing, once in Science of Computer
Programming). For more details, see here.
The Workshop Webpage is available from www.refinenet.org.uk
Program committee
Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, UK (co-chair)
John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK (co-chair)
Steve Reeves, University of Waikato, NZ (co-chair)
Richard Banach, University of Manchester, UK
Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, PT
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK
Brijesh Dongol, Brunel University, UK
Steve Dunne, UK
Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
Stefan Hallerstede, Aarhus University, DK
Marcel Oliveira, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Gerhard Schellhorn, Augsburg University, Germany
Steve Schneider , University of Surrey, UK
Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada
Graeme Smith, University of Queensland, Australia
Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK
Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany
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ATVA 2015, 13th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis
ATVA 2015, 13th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis October 12-15, 2015, Shanghai, China, http://atva2015.ios.ac.cn/ BACKGROUND The purpose of ATVA is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis by providing a forum for interaction between the regional and the international research communities and industry in the field. SCOPE ATVA 2015 solicits high-quality submissions in areas related to the theory and practice of automated analysis and verification of hardware and software systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems * Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterized systems * Program analysis and software verification * Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and embedded systems * Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced/weighted and probabilistic systems * Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction refinement techniques for analysis and verification * Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability * Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology * Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems * Verification in industrial practice * Applications and case studies Theory papers should preferably be motivated by practical problems, and applications should be based on sound theory and should solve problems of practical interest. IMPORTANT DATES April 22, 2015 Abstract submission deadline (AOE) April 25, 2015 Paper submission deadline (AOE) May 5, 2015 Submission of workshop proposals Jun 8, 2015 Paper acceptance/rejection notification Jun 10, 2015 Announcement of the accepted papers July 5, 2015 Camera-ready copy deadline GENERAL CHAIR Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China) PROGRAMME CHAIRS Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China) Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) PUBLICITY CHAIRS David N. Jansen (Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands) Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Alessandro Abate (University of Oxford, UK) Erika Ábrahám (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Michael Backes (Saarland University, Germany) Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) Ahmed Bouajjani (University Paris Diderot, FR) Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA) Franck Cassez (NICTA, Australia) Rance Cleaveland (University of Maryland, USA) Hung Dang-Van (UET, Vietnam National University, Vietnam) Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany) Mark Greenstreet (University of British Columbia, Canada) Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, Germany) Pao-Ann Hsiung (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan) Alan Hu (University of British Columbia, Canada) Michael Huth (Imperial College London, UK) Jie-Hong Roland Jiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University, Israel) Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China) Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University, AU) Ken McMillan (Microsoft, USA) Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Flemming Nielson (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark) Mizuhito Ogawa (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology) Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, FR) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China) Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) Kristin Y. Rozier (NASA's Ames Research Center, USA) Sven Schewe (Liverpool University, UK) Scott Smolka (Stony Brook University, USA) Farn Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden) Naijun Zhan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) STEERING COMMITTEE E. Allen Emerson (University of Texas-Austin, USA) Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Farn Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan) WORKSHOP CHAIR Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, SG) KEYNOTES Dino Distefano (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) J Strother Moore (University of Texas-Austin, USA) ATVA 2015 invites submissions for workshop proposals on topics of interest to the ATVA series. The workshops will be either half day or one full day. Depending on the number of accepted workshops, the workshops will be scheduled either on October 11, or October 16, 2015. All proposals should be sent by e-mail to the workshop chair, Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, SG, e-mail: sunjun@sutd.edu.sg DEADLINES FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: May 5, 2015: Submission of workshop proposals May 30, 2015: Notification of acceptance
35th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems
CALL FOR PAPERS
FORTE 2015
A DisCoTec Member Conference
35th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for
Distributed Objects, Components and Systems
http://discotec2015.inria.fr/
http://discotec2015.inria.fr/forte-2015-call-for-papers/
taking place on June 2-4, 2015 in Grenoble, France
Abstract Submission: February 15, 2015 (compulsory)
Paper Submission: February 22, 2015
Author Notification: March 23, 2015
Camera Ready copy: April 2, 2015
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FORTE 2015 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and
applications for distributed systems. The conference solicits original
contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems,
with special interest in the areas of:
* service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing
systems;
* object technology, modularity, component- and model-based design;
* software reliability, availability, and safety;
* security, privacy, and trust in distributed systems;
* adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization;
* self-healing/organizing;
* verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above.
Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal methods
and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from
the development of distributed systems are encouraged. FORTE covers distributed
computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The
application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems,
telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as
networking and communication security and reliability.
=== Main topics of interest ===
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Languages and semantic foundations: new modeling and language concepts for
distribution and concurrency, semantics for different types of languages,
including programming languages, modeling languages, and domain-specific
languages; real-time and probability aspects;
* Formal methods and techniques: design, specification, analysis,
verification, validation, testing and runtime verification of various types
of distributed systems including communications and network protocols,
service-oriented systems, adaptive distributed systems, cyber-physical
systems and sensor networks;
* Foundations of security: new principles for qualitative and quantitative
security analysis of distributed systems, including formal models based on
probabilistic concepts;
* Applications of formal methods: applying formal methods and techniques for
studying quality, reliability, availability, and safety of distributed
systems;
* Practical experience with formal methods: industrial applications, case
studies and software tools for applying formal methods and description
techniques to the development and analysis of real distributed systems.
=== Invited Speakers (DisCoTec) ===
* Alois Ferscha (Johannes Kepler Universität, Linz, Austria)
* Leslie Lamport (Microsoft Research, USA)
* Willy Zwaenepoel (EPFL, Switzerland)
=== Submission and publication ===
Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished
work, not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP’s codes of conduct). The
submissions must be prepared using Springer’s LNCS style. Papers can be
submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE’15 interface of the EasyChair system.
We solicit four kinds of submissions:
* Full papers (up to 15 pages): Describing thorough and complete research
results, tools or experience reports (if relevant, additional appendixes
with proofs or other material meant for easing the reviewers' live are
allowed)
* Short papers (up to 7 pages): Describing research results that are not
fully developed, or manifestos, calls to action, personal views on FORTE
related research, on the current state of the art, or on prospects for the
years to come.
* Tool demonstration papers (up to 7 pages): focus on the usage aspects of
tools. Theoretical foundations and experimental evaluation are not
required, however, a motivation as to why the tool is interesting and
significant should be provided. Papers may have an appendix of up to 5
additional pages with details on the actual demonstration.
* Posters (up to 3 pages): Summarizing research projects worth being
advertised and discussed in at the conference.
Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers. The
conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series. The
best papers will be invited after the conference to contribute to a special
issue of a top-level journal (TCS or FMSD).
=== Programme Chairs ===
Susanne Graf (VERIMAG & CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Mahesh Viswanathan (U. Illinois, USA)
=== Programme Committee ===
Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Luca Aceto (U. Reykjavik, Iceland)
S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India)
Paul Attie (American U. Beirut, Lebanon)
Rohit Chadha (U. Missouri, USA)
Rance Cleaveland (U. Maryland, USA)
Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Mc Master U., Ontario, Canada)
Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy)
Stephanie Delaune (CNRS & ENS Cachan, France)
Wan Fokkink (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Gregor Goessler (INRIA Grenoble, France)
Gerard Holzmann (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, USA)
Alan Jeffrey (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)
Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom ParisTech, France)
Ivan Lanese (U. Bologna, Italy)
Kim Larsen (U. Aalborg, Denmark)
Antonia Lopes (U. Lisbon, Portugal)
Stephan Merz (LORIA & INRIA Nancy, France)
Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France)
Alan Schmitt (IRISA & INRIA Rennes, France)
=== Steering Committee: ===
Erica Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Dirk Beyer (U. Passau, Germany)
Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy)
Einar Broch Johnsen (U. Oslo, Norway)
Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Holger Giese (U. Potsdam, Germany)
Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, Saclay, France)
Grigore Rosu (U. Illinois, USA)
Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) (Chair)
Heike Wehrheim (U. Paderborn, Germany)
Forum on specification & Design Languages
Forum on specification & Design Languages CALL FOR PAPERS September 14-16, 2015 | Barcelona, Spain FDL is an international forum to exchange experiences and promote new trends in the application of languages, their associated design methods and tools for the design of electronic systems. FDL stimulates scientific and controversial discussions within and in-between scientific topics as described below. The program structure includes research working sessions, embedded tutorials, panels, and technical discussions. The Forum includes tutorials and fringe meetings, such as user group or standardization meetings. "Wild and Crazy Ideas" are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on topics including, but not limited to: Formalisms & Languages Requirements and Property specification (RSLs, PSLs, SVA, .), Extra-functional specification (timing, power, temperature, aging, .), Multi-domain parallel applications in dynamic real-time environments, Models of computation, Automata (xFSM, .), Networks (Process Networks, Petri Nets, Task Networks), Platform modelling and abstraction, Transaction level modelling, Run-time system and middleware abstraction, Model and component-based design (UML, SysML, MARTE, .), Advanced language extensions for SLDLs (SystemC(-AMS), Modelica, VHDL-AMS, SystemVerilog Verilog-AMS,.) Tools & Techniques Formal property checking, Modeling and Simulation of functional and extra-functional properties, Parallel simulation, High-level hardware and software synthesis, Testbench automation and Coverage monitoring, Design space exploration and virtual prototyping, Scheduling & real-time analysis Design Flows & Methodologies Horizontal and vertical virtual integration testing, Requirements engineering and traceability, Mixed critical embedded applications on multi-core multi-CPU SoCs, Power and performance, Safety and security, Heterogeneous (mixed-signal/multiphysical) component integration, Multi-objective optimization; Model-Driven Engineering Important Deadlines: Trending Topics Besides the established topic areas listed above, we are also looking for contributions in domains which have explicitly been advocated by the FDL community for this year, namely: Methodology: Formal Models / Formal Verification, System Engineering (Specification, Requirements), Analog Mixed Signal and Multiphysical Embedded Systems, Parallel Processing, Power and Performance Modelling, Universal Verification Methodology, Device models for new technologies Applications: Internet of Things (including M2M communication), Mixed Criticality Embedded Systems, Verification of Autonomous Driving, Automatic Driving and Driver Assistance Proposals for Special Session: Full Research Paper submission: Other Contributions submission: Notification of acceptance: Camera ready papers: March 22, 2015 May 4, 2015 June 10, 2015 July 4, 2015 August 12, 2015 <http://www.ieee.org/index.html> <http://ieee-ceda.org/> Call for Special Sessions Professionals are invited to submit proposals for Special Sessions. Special Session should focus on a Topic which is of particular interest to the FDL audience. Papers of Special Sessions may be included in the proceedings/IEEE Xplore. If you are interested in organizing a Special Session, please submit a brief proposal (no more than two pages) which describes the topic, the intended audience, as well as a list of possible speakers to <mailto:fdl2015@ecsi.org> fdl2015@ecsi.org. The deadline for Special Session proposals is March 22, 2015. Submissions: Authors should submit papers in double column, IEEE format as PDF through the submission system: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdl2015> https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fdl2015. Full Research Papers shall not exceed 6-8 pages. Other Contributions like work in progress, wild & crazy ideas, demo night abstracts, or user experiences shall not exceed 2-4 pages. Submitted papers should be anonymous, are required to describe original unpublished work, and must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. Publications: The conference proceedings will be published in electronic form with an ISSN and ISBN number and made available on the ECSI website and submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore. In addition, an edited collection of extended versions of selected best papers will be published as a book by Springer. Contacts: <mailto:fdl@ecsi.org> fdl@ecsi.org | <http://www.ecsi.org/fdl> www.ecsi.org/fdl General Chair: Julio Medina | Universidad de Cantabria, ES Program Co-Chairs: Rolf Drechsler, Robert Wille | University of Bremen/DFKI, DE Local Co-Chair: Francisco J. Cazorla, Carles Hernandez | Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES
The 9th International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering , (TASE 2015)
TASE 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 9th International Symposium on
Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering
(TASE 2015)
12-14 September 2015, Nanjing, China
http://tase2015.nuaa.edu.cn
For more information email: tase2015@easychair.org
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OVERVIEW
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The 9th Theoretical Aspects of Software Engineering Conference (TASE
2015) will be held in Nanjing, China in September, 2015.
Modern society is increasingly dependent on software systems that are
becoming larger and more complex. This poses new challenges to the
various aspects of software engineering, for instance, software
dependability in trusted computing, interaction with physical
components in cyber physical systems, distribution in cloud computing
applications, etc. Hence, new concepts and methodologies are required
to enhance the development of software engineering from theoretical
aspects. TASE 2015 aims to provide a forum for people from academia
and industry to communicate their latest results on theoretical
advances in software engineering.
TASE 2015 is the 9th in the TASE series. The past TASE symposiums were
successfully held in Shanghai ('07), Nanjing ('08), Tianjin ('09),
Taipei ('10), Xi'an ('11), Beijing ('12), Birmingham ('13),
Changsha('14).The proceedings of the TASE 2015 symposium are planned
to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The authors of a
selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended
versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Frontiers
of Computer Science journal.
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TOPICS
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The symposium is devoted to theoretical aspects of software
engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Requirements Engineering
* Specification and Verification
* Program Analysis
* Software Testing
* Model-Driven Engineering
* Software Architectures and Design
* Aspect and Object Orientation
* Embedded and Real-Time Systems
* Software Processes and Workflows
* Component-Based Software Engineering
* Software Safety, Security and Reliability
* Reverse Engineering and Software Maintenance
* Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
* Semantic Web and Web Services
* Type System and Theory
* Program Logics and Calculus
* Probability in Software Engineering
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INVITED SPEAKERS
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Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada)
Patrick Cousot (Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris, France)
Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore)
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SUBMISSION
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Submission should be done through the TASE 2015 submission page,
handled by the EasyChair conference system:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tase2015
As in previous years, the proceedings of the conference are planned to
be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Papers must be
written in English and not exceed 8 pages in Two-Column IEEE format.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: 7 March 2015 (23h59 GMT)
Paper submission: 14 March 2015 (23h59 GMT)
Notification: 23 May 2015
Camera-ready: 13 June 2015
Conference: 12-14 September 2015
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GENERAL CHAIR
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Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China)
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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Zhiqiu Huang (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
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STEERING COMMITTE
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Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan)
Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China)
Michael Hinchey (Lero, Ireland)
Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK)
Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China)
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PROGRAM COMMITTIEE
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Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Earl Barr (University College London, UK)
Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA)
Lubos Brim (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Zining Cao (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Taolue Chen (Middlesex University, UK)
Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University, China)
Wei Dong (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Joaquim Gabarro (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Jaco Geldenhuys (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Peter Habermehl (Liafa, Paris 7, France)
Ian J. Hayes (University of Queensland, Australia)
Dang Van Hung (Vietnam National University, Vietnam)
Jason Lee (University of Melbourne, Australia)
Karl Leung (VTC, Hong Kong)
Bixin Li (Southeast University, China)
Xiaoshan Li (University of Macau, Macau)
Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China)
Zhoujun Li (Beihang University, China)
Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan)
Martin Leucker (University of L®πbeck, Germany)
Xiaoqing(Frank) Liu(Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)
Antoine Min®¶ (Ecole Normale Sup®¶rieure Paris, France)
Fernando Orejas (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Paritosh K. Pandya (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)
Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg)
Xin Peng (Fudan University, China)
Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China)
Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK)
Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, China)
Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
Klaus Schneider (University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
Axel Simon (Technical University of Munich, Germany)
Graeme Smith (University of Queensland, Australia)
Colin Snook (University of Southampton, UK)
Volker Stolz (Bergen University College, Norway)
Kaile Su (Griffith University, Australia)
Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Jean Pierre Talpin (INRIA, France)
Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany)
Margus Veanes (Microsoft Research, USA)
Tomas Vojnar (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Yi Wang (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Hongji Yang (Bath Spa University, UK)
Hongli Yang (Beijing University of Technology, China)
Hongwei Xi (Boston University, USA)
Yingfei Xiong (Peking University, China)
Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Hao Zhong (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China)
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ORGANIZING CHAIR
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Ou Wei (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
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PUBLICITY CHAIRS
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Jun Hun (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg)
Yu Zhou (Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China)
25th International Symposium on Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation, LOPSTR 2015
25th International Symposium on
Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation
LOPSTR 2015
Special Issue of Formal Aspects of Computing
http://alpha.diism.unisi.it/lopstr15/
University of Siena, Siena, IT, July 13-15, 2015
(co-located with PPDP 2015)
DEADLINES
Abstract submission: April 6, 2015
Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015
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The aim of the LOPSTR series is to stimulate and promote international
research and collaboration on logic-based program development. LOPSTR
is open to contributions in logic-based program development in any
language paradigm. LOPSTR has a reputation for being a lively,
friendly forum for presenting and discussing work in progress. Formal
proceedings are produced only after the symposium so that authors can
incorporate this feedback in the published papers.
The 25th International Symposium on Logic-based Program Synthesis and
Transformation (LOPSTR 2015) will be held at the University of Siena,
Siena, Italy; previous symposia were held in Canterbury, Madrid,
Leuven, Odense, Hagenberg, Coimbra, Valencia, Lyngby, Venice, London,
Verona, Uppsala, Madrid, Paphos, London, Venice, Manchester, Leuven,
Stockholm, Arnhem, Pisa, Louvain-la-Neuve, and Manchester.
LOPSTR 2015 will be co-located with PPDP 2015 (International Symposium
on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming).
Topics of interest cover all aspects of logic-based program
development, all stages of the software life cycle, and issues of both
programming-in-the-small and programming-in-the-large. Both full
papers and extended abstracts describing applications in these areas
are especially welcome. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of
logic-based program development, including, but not limited to:
* synthesis
* transformation
* specialization
* composition
* optimization
* inversion
* specification
* analysis and verification
* testing and certification
* program and model manipulation
* transformational techniques in SE
* applications and tools
Survey papers that present some aspects of the above topics from a new
perspective, and application papers that describe experience with
industrial applications are also welcome.
Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in
English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have been
published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal,
conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Work that already
appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings
may be submitted (please contact the PC chair in case of questions).
Important Dates
Abstract submission: April 6, 2015
Paper/Extended abstract submission: April 13, 2015
Notification: May 25, 2015
Camera-ready (for electronic pre-proceedings): June 15, 2015
Symposium: July 13-15, 2015
Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper (written in
English) in PDF, formatted in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science
style. Each submission must include on its first page the paper
title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email;
abstract; and three to four keywords which will be used to assist
the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers
should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing
their report. Submissions cannot exceed 15 pages including references
but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication.
Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers
should be intelligible without them.
Papers should be submitted via the Easychair submission website for
LOPSTR 2015, which can be accessed through the website of LOPSTR 2015.
Proceedings
The formal post-conference proceedings will be published by Springer
in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
Full papers can be directly accepted for publication in the formal
proceedings, or accepted only for presentation at the symposium and
inclusion in informal proceedings. After the symposium, all authors
of extended abstracts and full papers accepted only for presentation
will be invited to revise and/or extend their submissions in the light
of the feedback solicited at the symposium. Then, after another round
of reviewing, these revised papers may also be published in the formal
proceedings.
Special journal issue
After the symposium, a selection of the best papers will be invited to
a special issue of the 'Formal Aspects of Computing' journal. The
submissions to the special issue must be substantial extensions of the
proceedings versions and will undergo the usual journal reviewing
process.
Invited speakers
Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA (Jointly with PPDP)
Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Dale Miller, INRIA and LIX/Ecole Polytechnique, France
Program Committee
Slim Abdennadher, German University of Cairo, Egypt
Maria Alpuente, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Demis Ballis, University of Udine, Italy
Olaf Chitil, University of Kent, UK
Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Moreno Falaschi, University of Siena, Italy (Program Chair)
Jerome Feret, INRIA and ENS, France
Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Bologna, Italy
Jurgen Giesl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Miguel Gomez-Zamalloa, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Arnaud Gotlieb, SIMULA Research Laboratory, Norway
Gopal Gupta, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA, Spain
Viktor Kuncak, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Luigi Liquori, INRIA Sophia-Antipolis Mediterranee, France
Alexei Lisitsa, University of Liverpool, UK
Narciso Marti-Oliet, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Jorge Navas, NASA, USA
Kazuhiro Ogata, JAIST, Japan
Carlos Olarte, ECT, Univ. Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brasil
Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA and Ecole Polytechnique, France
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy
Albert Rubio, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Wim Vanhoof, University of Namur, Belgium
Program and Symposium Chair:
Moreno Falaschi, Dept. of Information Engineering and Mathematics,
Univ. of Siena, Italy
(moreno.falaschi@unisi.it)
Organizing Committee
Monica Bianchini, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Sara Brunetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Andrea Machetti, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Simonetta Palmas, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Italy
Simone Rinaldi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Elisa Tiezzi, DIISM, Univ. of Siena, Italy
Sara Ugolini, Dip. Informatica, Univ. of Pisa
The 7th NASA Formal Methods Symposium
NFM 2015
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The 7th NASA Formal Methods Symposium
http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/nfm2015
27 – 29 April 2015
Pasadena, California, USA
THEME
The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and safety-critical systems
require advanced techniques that address their specification, verification,
validation, and certification. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for
theoreticians and practitioners from academia, industry, and government, with the
goals of identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving assurance in
mission- and safety-critical systems. The focus of the symposium is on formal
methods, and aims to foster collaboration between NASA researchers and engineers and
the wider aerospace and academic formal methods communities.
TOPICS
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Model checking
Theorem proving
SAT and SMT solving
Symbolic execution
Static analysis
Runtime verification
Systematic testing
Program refinement
Compositional verification
Modeling and specification formalisms
Model-based development
Model-based testing
Requirement engineering
Formal approaches to fault tolerance
Security and intrusion detection
Applications of formal methods
INVITED SPEAKERS
Dino Distefano
Software Engineer at Facebook, California, USA and Professor at Queen Mary
University of London, UK.
Viktor Kuncak
Leads Lab for Automated Reasoning and Analysis at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Rob Manning
Chief Engineer at NASA/JPL.
LOCATION, COST, REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ROOM BOOKING
The symposium will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA, April
27-29, 2015.
There will be no registration fee for participants.
All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend;
however, all attendees must register (but please only register if you intend to
attend). Registration form and hotel booking websites are reachable from the main
website. A block of rooms at a low price are reserved with booking deadline of March
26.
PC CHAIRS
Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
PUBLICITY SUPPORT
Ylies Falcone, Université Joseph Fourier, France
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA
Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG/UJF, France
Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada
Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA
Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Dawson Engler, Stanford University, USA
Jean-Christophe Filliatre, Université Paris-Sud, France
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France
Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA
Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA
Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick/Lero, Ireland
Bart Jacobs, University of Leuven, Belgium
Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Gerwin Klein, NICTA, Australia
Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK
Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA
Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany
Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Pete Manolios, Northeastern University, USA
Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg, Germany
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, USA
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA
Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA
Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, USA
Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA
Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK
STEERING COMMITTEE
Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center
Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center
Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center
Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center
The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Formal Methods Integration – FMi 2015
==================================================* The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Formal Methods Integration – FMi 2015 In conjunction with the 16th IEEE IRI 2015 http://www.ieee-iri.org San Francisco, USA, August 13-15, 2015 *==================================================* *Important dates * Abstract Submission deadline: April 7, 2015 Paper submission deadline: April 15, 2015 Paper notification: May 20, 2015 Camera-ready paper due: May 30, 2015 Registration due: May 30, 2015 *Scope and topics* Formal methods seek to contribute to the engineering of dependable systems by applying sound techniques based on computer science fundamentals. Complex systems often involve different formalisms to deal with the modeling of their different aspects, as each formalism is specific to only some system aspects and none is perfectly supporting all aspect constructs and their related semantics. Accordingly, different analysis techniques are required to check the different system views and verify different kinds of properties. Formalism integration is intended to support coherent specification and analysis of different aspects of a system. The FMi workshop aims at further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis. It seeks contributions from researchers and practitioners interested in all aspects of integrating methods, either formal or semi-formal, for system development, covering all engineering development phases from user requirements through design and analysis techniques to tools. The workshop also encourages new initiatives of building bridges between informal, semi-formal, and formal notations. Authors are invited to submit both research and tool papers. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - scalable formal methods, - component-based specification and analysis, - integrated software/hardware specification and analysis, - hybrid and embedded systems modeling and analysis, - object and multi-agent systems modeling and analysis, - requirement specification and analysis, - software and hardware specification, verification, and validation, - theorem proving and decision procedures, - formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance, - formal methods for re-engineering and reuse, - formal languages integration, - semi-formal (UML, SysML, …) and formal model integration, - informal and formal language integration, - integration of formal methods into software engineering practice, - integrated analysis techniques, - tools integration, - integration of formal methods in education, - integration of formal methods in health, - integration of formal methods in industry, - integration of formal methods in security. *Paper submission * Submitted papers must be unpublished and not considered elsewhere for publication. Submissions will undergo a rigorous review process handled by the Technical Program Committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Only electronic submissions in PDF format through the EasyChair submission site: *https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmi2015 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmi2015>* will be considered. Papers must be in English, up to 8 pages in IEEE format, including references and appendices. The IEEE LaTeX and Microsoft Word templates, as well as formatting guidelines, can be found on the paper submission instructions available at the main conference website. *Paper publication * At least one of the authors must register and present the paper, if accepted. Registered papers will be published as workshop papers in the IEEE IRI conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Presented papers will be invited to be extended and considered for publication in a special issue of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, edited by Springer. *Workshop Chair* Thouraya Bouabana Tebibel, LCSI Laboratory, Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Informatique – ESI, Alger, Algeria *Program Committee* Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford, UK Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Yamine Ait Ameur, University of Toulouse, France Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan Cyrille Artho, AIST, Japan Kyungmin Bae, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Luis Barbosa, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Kamel Barkaoui, CNAM, France Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University, The Netherlands Phillip J Brooke, Teesside University, UK Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Allaoua Chaoui, University of Constantine, Algeria Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria Hung Dang-Van, UET, Vietnam National University, Vietnam John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA Reiner Hähnle, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany René Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark Klaus Havelund, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Rolf Hennicker, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Germany Nadjet Kamel, University of Sétif, Algeria Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University, Canada Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Michele Loreti, University of Florence, Italy José Merseguer, University of Zaragoza, Spain Bruno Monsuez, Ensta, France Wojciech Mostowski, University of Twente, The Netherlands Alexandre Mota, Centre of Informatics, Brazil John Mullins, École polytechnique de Montréal, Canada Brina Nielsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Gordon J. Pace, University of Malta, Malta Luigia Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Alexandre Petrenko, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal, Canada Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Stuart H. Rubin, SSC-Pacific, USA Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden Djamel Eddine Saidouni, University of Constantine, Algeria Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Christophe Sibertin Blanc, University of Toulouse 1, France Jiri Srba, Aalborg University, Denmark Shuling Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy *Contact* Thouraya Bouabana Tebibel at t_tebibel@esi.dz
The 2nd Formal Integrated Development Environment Workshop (F-IDE 2015)
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F-IDE 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
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The 2nd Formal Integrated Development Environment Workshop
(F-IDE 2015)
22 June 2015, Oslo, Norway
http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~masci/fide2015
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OVERVIEW
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The 2nd Formal Integrated Development Environment Workshop (F-IDE 2015) will be held
in Oslo, Norway, in June, 2015.
High levels of safety, security and also privacy standards require the use of formal
methods to specify and develop compliant software (sub)systems. Any standard comes
with an assessment process, which requires a complete documentation of the
application in order to ease the justification of design choices and the review of
code and proofs.
Ideally, an F-IDE dedicated to such developments should comply with several
requirements. The first one is to associate a logical theory with a programming
language, in a way that facilitates the tightly coupled handling of specification
properties and program constructs. The second one is to offer a language/environment
simple enough to be usable by most developers, even if they are not fully acquainted
with higher-order logics or set theory, in particular by making development of
proofs as easy as possible. The third one is to offer automated management of
application documentation. It may also be expected that developments done with such
an F-IDE are reusable and modular. Moreover, tools for testing and static analysis
may be embedded in this F-IDE, to help address most steps of the assessment
process.
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TOPICS
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The workshop is opened to contributions on all aspects of a system development
process, including specification, design, implementation, analysis and
documentation. It should allow the presentation of tools, methods, techniques and
experiments. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
– F-IDE building: design and integration of languages, compilation
– How to make high-level logical and programming concepts palatable to industrial
developers
– Integration of Object-Oriented and modularity features
– Integration of static analyzers
– Integration of automatic proof tools, theorem provers and testing tools
– Documentation tools
– Impact of tools on certification
– Experience reports of developing F-IDE
– Experience reports of using F-IDE
– Experience reports of formal methods-based assessments of industrial applications
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SUBMISSION
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Papers must be written in English, not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, not counting
references, and follow the FM 2015 Format and Submission Guidelines.
They can be:
- Research papers providing new concepts and results
- Position papers and research perspectives
- Experience reports
- Tool presentations
Papers can be submitted through Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fide2015
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PROCEEDINGS
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- Preliminary proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will
be available electronically at the workshop.
- Post proceedings are under consideration as Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical
Computer Science (ETPCS) proceedings.
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: March 24, 2015 (23h59 GMT)
Paper submission: March 31, 2015 (23h59 GMT)
Notification: April 30, 2015
Camera-ready: May 15, 2015
Workshop: June 22, 2015
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PC CO-CHAIRS
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Catherine Dubois ENSIIE, Cedric, catherine (dot) dubois (at) ensiie (dot) fr
Paolo Masci Queen Mary University of London, paolo (dot) masci (at) eecs
(dot) qmul (dot) ac (dot) uk
Dominique Mery Université de Lorraine, dominique (dot) mery (at) loria (dot) fr
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PC MEMBERS (to be completed)
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Bernhard Beckert Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Jose Campos Universidade do Minho
Paul Curzon Queen Mary University of London
Carlo Alberto Furia ETH Zurich
Therese Hardin UPMC
Rustan Leino Microsoft Research
Michael Leuschel University of Dusseldorf
Claude Marche INRIA
Stefan Mitsch Carnegie Mellon University
Patrick Oladimeji Swansea University
Suzette Person NASA Langley Research Center
Francois Pessaux ENSTA ParisTech
Marie-Laure Potet Laboratoire Verimag
Steve Reeves Waikato University
John Rushby SRI International
Rene Thiemann University of Innsbruck
Boris Yakobowski CEA LIST
5th International ABZ 2014 Conference (ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z)
Call for Papers, Answers to the case study, Workshops, Tutorials 5th International ABZ 2014 Conference (ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z) ========================================== May 23-27, 2016 -- Linz, Austria http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/ The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of six related state-based and machine-based formal methods, Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. It builds on the success of the first ABZ conference held in London in 2008, where the ASM, B and Z conference series merged into a single event, the second ABZ 2010 conference held in Orford (Canada), where the Alloy community joined the event, the ABZ 2012 held in Pisa (Italy), which saw the inclusion of the VDM community, and ABZ 2014 held in Toulouse (France), which brought the inclusion of the TLA community into the ABZ conference series. The ABZ 2016 conference will be held in Linz, Austria. Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and industrial applications. The program spans from theoretical and methodological foundations to practical applications, emphasizing system engineering methods and tools that are distinguished by mathematical rigor and have proved to be industrially viable. The main goal of the conference is to contribute to the integration of accurate state- and machine-based system development methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation, mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems. Although organized to host several formal methods with ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, in a single event, editorial control of the joint conference is vested in one integrated program committee, which will respectively determine its ASM, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z content, to be presented in parallel conference tracks with a schedule to allow the participants to switch between the sessions. As successfully practiced at ABZ 2014, the 5th edition of ABZ will again include special sessions dedicated to a shared real-life case study among all the methods addressed in ABZ 2016. The objective of this session is to enrich the set of case studies developed with ABZ methods with a practical and real-life case study. After the success of the "Landing Gear" case study at ABZ 2014 in the aeronautical context this time the organizers defined a real-life case study issued from the medical domain with challenging safety requirements. The ABZ 2016 case study concerns the control of a hemodialysis machine. See http://www.cdcc.faw.jku.at/ABZ2016/ for a detailed description of this case study. Proposals are invited for workshops and tutorials to take place before the main conference. Four kinds of contributions are invited: -- Research papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere. -- Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations. This is an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and validate their work in progress. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed. -- Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with any of the state based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2014. -- Application in industry papers reporting on work or experiences on the application of state based formal methods in industry. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected and will be reviewed. It is also an interesting option for industrial practitioners who sometimes face too many constraints to prepare a full paper. Submissions: ======== Research, short and industry papers must be prepared using the SPRINGER LNCS style and submitted electronically in PDF at the ABZ 2016 conference submission website (Easy Chair). Programm Committee Chairs: Michael BUTLER, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE, Johannes-Kepler-University Linz and Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Linz/Hagenberg, Austria Program Committee: tba Answers to the case study must be prepared using the SPRINGER LNCS style and submitted electronically in PDF at the ABZ 2016 conference submission website (Easy Chair). Case study Chairs: Atif Mashkoor, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria (atif.mashkoor@scch.at) Miklos Biro, Software Competence Center Hagenberg, Hagenberg, Austria (miklos.biro@scch.at) The submission system for the conference can be accessed at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2016 The deadline for submissions is January 15, 2016. Notifications will be sent by February 22, 2016. Publication: ======= All research and short accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer's LNCS series. The answers to case study papers and the application in industry papers shall be published in a volume of Springer's CCIS series (tbc). The two volumes will be distributed at the conference. Journal Special Issues: It is planned that an improved version of a selected number of contributions will be published in a special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming for the research papers and in a special issue of the Software Tools and Technology Transfer journal for the answers to case study papers (to be confirmed). Workshops and Tutorials: ================ Workshops and tutorials will be associated to the main event ABZ. Proposals are solicited in areas related to the conference topics. Workshop proposal should be sent to the workshop chairs: Yamine Ait-Ameur, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France (yamine@enseeiht.fr) Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, Nancy, France (stephan.merz@loria.fr) Alexander Raschke, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany (alexander.raschke@uni-ulm.de) The deadline for submissions is October 16, 2015. Notifications will be sent by November 6, 2015. Tutorial proposal should be sent to the tutorial chairs (tbc): Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy (gervasi@di.unipi.it) Michael Leuschel, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany (leuschel@cs.uni-duesseldorf.de) The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2016. Notifications will be sent by March 14, 2016. Important Dates: ========== Workshop proposal submission: October 16, 2015 Workshop proposal notification: November 6, 2015 Research paper submission: January 15, 2016 Answers to case study submission: January 15, 2016 Short and industry paper submission: February 4, 2016 Acceptance notification: February 22, 2016 Final Version due: March 14, 2016 Tutorial proposal submissions: February 15, 2016 Tutorial proposal notifications: March 14, 2016 ABZ 2016 conference: May 23-27, 2016 For questions concerning ABZ 2016, contact Klaus-Dieter SCHEWE (klaus-dieter.schewe@scch.at).
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