[FM-India] JLAP special issue: call for papers

[Madhavan Mukund]

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 Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:48:01 +0100
 Subject: JLAP special issue: call for papers
 
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 Call for papers
 
 JOURNAL OF LOGIC AND ALGEBRAIC PROGRAMMING
 
 Special Issue on Formal Methods in Software Product Line Engineering
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 This special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming
 (JLAP) is devoted, but by no means limited, to the themes of the
 FMSPLE workshop series on formal methods and analysis in Software
 Product Line Engineering (SPLE).
 
 SPLE aims at developing a family of systems by reuse in order to
 reduce time to market and to increase product quality. The
 correctness of the development artifacts intended for reuse as well
 as the correctness of the developed products is of crucial interest
 for many safety-critical or business-critical applications. Formal
 methods and analysis approaches have been successfully applied in
 single system engineering in order to rigorously establish critical
 system requirements. While SPLE has matured considerably over the
 last decade, many challenges still remain, among which efficient
 variability management, the consistency between domain and
 application engineering, the reduction of quality assurance efforts,
 and the consistent and sustainable evolution of product families.
 Moreover, formal methods and analysis approaches are not applied
 broadly enough in SPLE, despite their potential to improve product
 quality. One of the reasons is that existing formal approaches from
 single system engineering do not consider variability, which is an
 essential aspect of product lines.
 
 The general motivation is to promote and stimulate the application
 of formal modelling and analysis techniques to problems that
 originate from the SPLE domain, and to strengthen in this way the
 ties between the SPLE community and theoretical computer scientists
 and formal methods researchers seeking to apply calculi, process
 algebras, type systems, logics, model checking, type checking,
 theorem proving, constraint solving, and so forth. Recent years have
 witnessed an increased application of formal modelling and analysis
 techniques in SPLE and this is starting to make an impact, as is
 confirmed by the growing number of papers that have been published
 in a variety of high-profile formal methods, SPLE, and (fundamental)
 software engineering conferences and journals.
 
 This is an open call for papers, therefore participants of the FMSPLE
 workshop series as well as others working on the themes of this
 special issue, are strongly encouraged to submit contributions.
 
 IMPORTANT DATES
 
 Submission of papers: July 15, 2014
 First review decision: December 15, 2014
 Revision due: February 15, 2015
 Acceptance notification: April 15, 2015
 Final manuscript due: June 15, 2015
 Expected publication: Summer 2015
 
 TOPICS OF INTEREST
 
 We solicit original papers on topics within the general scope of
 applying formal modelling and analysis techniques to software
 product lines, which include but are not limited to:
 
 - Product line architectures and component-based product line
   development
 - Correctness-by-construction techniques in SPLE
 - Variability modelling and analysis
 - Product derivation and application engineering
 - Product line implementation, such as type systems, programming
   languages, and formal semantics
 - Product line life-cycle management such as consistency assurance
 - Reuse and evolution in SPLE
 - Safety and security aspects in SPLE
 - Automated test case generation and model-based testing in SPLE
 - Formal verification (such as type checking, model checking, and
   theorem proving) of product lines and product line artifacts
 - Specification and verification of functional and non-functional
   properties in SPLE
 
 SUBMISSION
 
 We expect original articles (typically 20-30 pages; submission of
 larger papers will be evaluated depending on editorial constraints)
 that present high-quality contributions, which have not been
 previously published elsewhere and that are also not simultaneously
 submitted for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a
 thorough evaluation by at least three reviewers. In case of a
 positive first review decision, the authors will have about two
 months to incorporate the comments of the reviewers and submit a
 revised version of their papers, which will be evaluated again by
 the reviewers to reach a final decision.
 
 All contributions must be written in English, must be submitted in
 PDF format and must comply with JLAP's author guidelines, which can
 be retrieved from
 http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621520/
 authorinstructions
 All manuscripts should be prepared using Elsevier's elsart.cls LaTeX
 article class, see http://www.elsevier.com/latex
 Submissions are handled using the Elsevier Editorial System and can
 be uploaded via the link http://ees.elsevier.com/jlap/
 In the submission process, the authors must select the article type
 "FMSPLE".
 
 GUEST EDITORS
 
 Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy
 Dave Clarke, Uppsala University, Sweden & KU Leuven, Belgium
 Ina Schaefer, Technische Universitaet Braunschweig, Germany