[FM-India] FORMATS 2014: Call for papers

Thu Mar 27 16:22:33 IST 2014

 From: Axel Legay <axel.legay at inria.fr>
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 Subject: FORMATS 2014: Call for papers

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                           FORMATS 2014

                   12th International Conference on

           Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

                          Call for Papers

                    http://formats2014.unifi.it/

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 Objective
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 Timing aspects of  systems   from a variety of  computer  science
 domains   have  been     treated independently     by   different
 communities. Researchers  interested  in semantics,  verification
 and performance analysis study models such  as timed automata and
 timed  Petri nets,  the digital   design   community focusses  on
 propagation and   switching delays  while  designers of  embedded
 controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers
 to compute their responses after sampling the environment.

 Timing-related questions  in  these separate disciplines  do have
 their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that
 there are basic  problems that  are  common  to all  of them.  In
 particular,   all   these sub-disciplines  treat  systems   whose
 behaviour  depends  upon combinations   of logical   and temporal
 constraints;  namely,   constraints  on the   temporal  distances
 between occurrences of events.

 Topics
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 The aim of FORMATS  is to  promote the  study of fundamental  and
 practical aspects  of  timed   systems,  and to   bring  together
 researchers from  different disciplines  that share  interests in
 modelling and analysis of  timed systems. Typical  topics include
 (but are not limited to):

 * Foundations  and Semantics:  Theoretical foundations  of  timed
   systems  and languages;   comparison  between different  models
   (timed   automata,  timed  Petri nets,  hybrid  automata, timed
   process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models).

 * Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and
   software tools   for  analyzing  timed   systems and  resolving
   temporal constraints   (scheduling,  worst-case execution  time
   analysis,  optimization,  model checking,   testing, constraint
   solving, etc.).

 * Applications:  Adaptation   and    specialization  of    timing
   technology  in  application domains  in  which timing  plays an
   important  role (real-time   software,  hardware circuits,  and
   problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication).

 Paper Submission
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 FORMATS 2014  solicits  high-quality papers   reporting  research
 results and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned
 above.  Submitted  papers   must  contain  original,  unpublished
 contributions, not   submitted  for  publication  elsewhere.  The
 papers should be  submitted electronically in PDF,  following the
 Springer LNCS style  guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 15
 pages in length.

 Each paper will undergo a thorough  review process. If necessary,
 the paper  may be supplemented  with  a clearly  marked appendix,
 which  will   be  reviewed  at  the    discretion of the  program
 committee.

 Papers should be  submitted  electronically via  EasyChair online
 submission system:

   https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=formats2014

 The proceedings of FORMATS 2014  will be published by Springer in
 the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

 Important Dates
 ---------------

 * Abstract submission:  April 14, 2014

 * Paper submission:  April 21, 2014

 * Notification of acceptance:  June 9, 2014

 * Final version due:  June 23, 2014

 * Conference:  September 8-10, 2014

 Program Chairs
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 Marius Bozga           (VERIMAG / CNRS, Grenoble, France) 
 Axel Legay             (IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France) 

 Program Committee
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 Erika Abraham          (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
 Parosh Aziz Abdulla    (Uppsala University, Sweden)
 Eugene Asarin          (LIAFA / University Paris Diderot, France)
 Luca Bortolussi        (University of Trieste, Italy)
 Alexandre David        (Aalborg University, Denmark)
 Alexandre Donze        (UC Berkeley, USA)
 Georgios Fainekos      (Arizona State University, USA)
 Martin Franzle         (Carl von Ossietzky Universitet Oldenburg,
                           Germany)
 Goran Frehse           (VERIMAG / University of Grenoble, France)
 Laurent Fribourg       (LSV / CNRS, Paris, France)
 Gilles Geeraerts       (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
 Marcin Jurdzinski      (University of Warwick, UK)
 Joost-Pieter Katoen    (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
 Kai Lampka             (Uppsala University, Sweden)
 Didier Lime            (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France)
 Nicolas Markey         (LSV / CNRS, Paris, France)
 David Parker           (University of Birmingham, UK)
 Ocan Sankur            (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
 Ana Sokolova           (University of Salzburg, Austria)
 Oleg Sokolsky          (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
 P.S. Thiagarajan       (National University of Singapore, 
                           Singapore)
 Louis-Marie Traonouez  (IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France)
 Ashutosh Trivedi       (IIT Bombay, India)
 Frits Vaandrager       (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
 Enrico Vicario         (University of Florence, Italy)
 Sergio Yovine          (CONICET, Argentina)

 Steering Commitee
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 Rajeev Alur            (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 
 Eugene Asarin          (LIAFA / University Paris Diderot, France)
 Thomas A. Henzinger    (Institute of Science and Technology, 
                           Austria)
 Joost-Pieter Katoen    (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) 
 Kim G. Larsen          (Aalborg University, Denmark) 
 Oded Maler             (VERIMAG / CNRS, Grenoble, France) 
 Lothar Thiele          (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) 
 Wang Yi                (Uppsala University, Sweden) 

 Venue
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 FORMATS 2014  will take  place   in Florence,  Italy as   part of
 FLORENCE  2014,    a  one-week scientific event     on formal and
 quantitative   methods  for the   development of   dependable and
 performing systems:

                    http://www.florence2014.org/

 It will be held in Florence during the  week 8-12 September 2014,
 and it will co-locate five    major conferences in the areas   of
 formal   and  quantitative  analysis   of   systems,  performance
 engineering,   computer    safety,    and   industrial   critical
 applications.

 All the conferences will take  place at the Aeronautical Sciences
 School of  the  Italian Air  Force,   inside the  monumental  and
 historical park of Cascine in the city of Florence.

 Colocated events
 ----------------

 QEST: International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of
 SysTems

 SAFECOMP: International Conference on Computer Safety,
 Reliability and Security

 EPEW: European Workshop on Performance Engineering

 FMICS: International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial
 Critical Systems 