[FM-India] Call for papers: SynCoP 2014 (ETAPS workshop)

[Étienne André]

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                           Call for papers

                             SynCoP 2014
  1st International Workshop on the SYNthesis of COntinuous Parameters

               http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/SynCoP2014/
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SynCoP aims at bringing together researchers working on parameter 
synthesis for
systems with continuous variables, where the parameters consist of a 
(usually
dense) set of constant values. Such problems arise for real-time, hybrid or
probabilistic systems where the goal is to identify suitable parameters to
achieve desired behavior, or to verify the behavior for a given range of
parameter values. A parameter could be, e.g., a delay in a real-time 
system, or
a reaction rate in a biological cell model.

The workshop will take place on Sunday the 6th of April 2014, in Grenoble,
France, as a satellite of ETAPS 2014.

The workshop may be able to partially support the travel and the ETAPS 
workshop
registration fees for one or two PhD or Master student(s).

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  IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract: January 13th, 2014
Full papers: January 20th, 2014
Notification: February 20th, 2014
Camera ready: March 15th, 2014
Workshop: April 6th, 2014


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  TOPICS OF THE WORKSHOP
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The scientific subject of the workshop covers (but is not limited to) the
following areas:
* parameter synthesis,
* parametric model checking,
* robustness analysis,
* formalisms such as parametric timed and hybrid automata, parametric 
time(d)
Petri nets, parametric probabilistic automata,
* applications to major areas of computer science and control engineering.


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  SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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The content of papers should be original and not submitted elsewhere. 
All papers
will be submitted to at least three reviews.

The page limit is 15 pages in the EPTCS format (http://style.eptcs.org/).
All accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, that are free and open access
online proceedings.
The papers will be referenced in major databases such as DBLP, and 
published
under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
Hereby, the authors retain their copyright.
(Substantial revisions may later be published elsewhere.)

Submission will be made in English in PDF format through Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syncop2014


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INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Alexandre Donze, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer 
Science, UC
Berkeley, USA
* Didier Lime, IRCCyN / Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
  (to be completed)


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     CHAIRS
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* Etienne Andre (Universite Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cite, France)
* Goran Frehse (Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 - Verimag, France)


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Eugene Asarin, Paris, France
* Alessandro Cimatti, Trento, Italy
* Alexandre Donze, Berkeley, USA
* Georgios Fainekos, Arizona, USA
* Laurent Fribourg, Cachan, France
* Antoine Girard, Grenoble, France
* Kim Larsen, Aalborg, Denmark
* Yang Liu, Singapore
* Olivier H. Roux, Nantes, France
* Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Boulder, USA
* Marielle Stoelinga , Twente, Netherlands
* Ashish Tiwari, USA
* Farn Wang, Taipei, Taiwan

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SUPPORT
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The workshop is partially supported by VERIMAG, LIPN, Universite Paris 
13, and
GDR IM.