[FM-India] Call for Papers: FormaliSE 2014
Madhavan Mukund
madhavan at cmi.ac.in
Sat Dec 14 06:25:16 IST 2013
From: Nico Plat <mail at nicoplat.com>
To: fmindia at cmi.ac.in
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:22:17 +0100
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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
http://www.formalise.org/
INTRODUCTION
The 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 the correct behavior of
the delivered software. The lack of formalization in key places makes
software engineering overly sensitive to the weaknesses that are
inevitable in the complex activities behind software creation. Aids
to precision in each phase of software development and crosschecking
are essential, and this is precisely one the objectives of formal
methods.
Formal methods (FMs) are intended to provide the means for greater
precision in both thinking and documenting the preliminary stage of
the software creation process. When done well, this can aid all
aspects of software creation: user requirement formulation,
implementation, verification/testing, and the creation of
documentation. However, the maturing of formal techniques into
real-life software engineering involves providing notations and tools
that are readily understood and used by practitioners, and the
integration of such tools with activities that are far from the
unrealistic assumptions that characterized some earlier research in
formal methods.
After decades of research, and despite significant advancement,
formal methods 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
engineering needs, and its specific role in the software process. At
the same time, from 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.
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 INTEREST include but are not limited to:
- integration of FMs in the software development 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
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 Conference Proceedings
Format. They will be published as part of the (electronic)
proceedings 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:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formalise2014. Three or
four PC 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 papers
24 February 2014: notification of acceptance/rejection to authors
14 March 2014: camera-ready copy deadline for workshop papers
*** Exact date *** 2014: FormaliSE workshop held in Hyderabad, India
OC/PC CHAIRS are Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) and Nico Plat (West
Consulting BV, The Netherlands). Local organizer is Ravindra Metta
(Tata Consultancy Services, India). The OC/PC Chairs can be reached
via e-mail: oc at formalise.org. If you intend to submit a paper you are
invited to inform us in advance.
THE PROGRAM COMMITTEE consists of Andreas Bollin (Klagenfurt
University, Austria), Einar Broch Johnsen (Oslo University, Norway),
Manfred Broy (Technical University München, Germany), Ana Cavalcanti
(York University, UK), Nancy Day (University of Waterloo, Canada),
Cindy Eisner (IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel) , Alessandro
Fantechi (University of Florence, Italy), Jaco Geldenhuys (University
of Stellenbosch, South Africa) , Jan Friso Groote (Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands), Arie Gurfinkel (Carnegie
Mellon University, USA), Mike Hinchey (Lero, Ireland), Randolph
Johnson (independent consultant, USA), Axel van Lamsweerde
(University of Louvain. Belgium), Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus
University, Denmark), Marc Lawford (MacMaster University, Canada),
Thierry Lecomte (ClearSy, France), Yves Ledru (IMAG, France), Axel
Legay (INRIA Rennes, France), Antónia Lopes (University of Lisbon,
Portugal), István Majzik (Budapest University of Technology and
Economics, Hungary), Tiziana Margaria (Potsdam University, Germany),
Ravindra Metta (Tata Consultancy Services, India), Henry Muccini
(Universita degli Studi dell’Aquila, Italy), Matteo Rossi
(Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Elena Troubitsyna (Abo University,
Finland) , Sebastián Uchitel (Imperial College and Universidad de
Buenos Aires, UK and Argentina), Hironori Washizaki (Waseda
University, Japan), and Fatiha Zaïdi (LRI/CNRS, France).
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