The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Formal Methods Integration – FMi 2015

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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

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*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