[TYPES/announce] Call for contributions: FLACOS'08

[gerardo]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

*Second Workshop on Formal Languages and Analysis of
Contract-Oriented Software  (FLACOS'08)*

Malta, 27-28 November, 2008
http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos08


The ability to negotiate contracts for a wide range of aspects and to 
provide services conforming to them is a most pressing need in 
service-oriented architectures. High-level models of contracts are 
making their way into service-oriented architectures, but application 
developers are still left to their own devices when it comes to writing 
code that will comply with a contract concluded just before service 
provisioning. At the programming language level, contracts appear as 
separate concerns that cut  across application logic, while analysis 
requires that contracts are abstracted from applications to become 
amenable to formal reasoning using formal language techniques. The aim 
of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners 
working on language-based solutions to the above issues through 
formalization of contracts, design of appropriate abstraction 
mechanisms, and formal analysis of contract languages and software.

The workshop will  consist  mainly of a number of presentations by 
invited speakers. A small number of additional sessions will be reserved 
for other researchers in the field who are encouraged to submit a short 
abstract of their work as an expression of interest in participating in 
the workshop by 18 September 2008. The number of participants in the 
workshop is strictly limited.


*IMPORTANT DATES*

     Paper Submission Deadline:     September 18, 2008
     Notification of Acceptance:      September 30, 2008
     Registration Closes:                  October 14, 2008
     WORKSHOP:                        November 27-28, 2008


*SCOPE*

Topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

    * Formal languages for contracts
    * Contract-oriented software development
    * Formal analysis of contracts, including static analysis, run-time
      verification, and model checking techniques
    * Contract synthesis
    * Contract transformation and contract refinement
    * Contract negotiation, discovery and monitoring


*CONFIRMED INVITED PARTICIPANTS*

    * Emilia Cambronero Piqueras (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
    * Tomasz Janowski (UNU/IIST)
    * Tom Maibaum (McMaster University, Canada)
    * Fabio Massacci (Universitá di Trento, Italy)
    * Ugo Montanari (Università di Pisa, Italy)
    * Wolfgang Reisig (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlina, Germany)
    * Isabelle Simplot-Ryl (University of Lille 1, France)
    * Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
    * More to be announced


*SUBMISSIONS*

Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are invited to submit an 
extended abstract of their work (3-8 pages, in PDF format, one column, 
printable on A4 paper) to flacos-08 at cs.um.edu.mt 
<mailto:flacos-08 at cs.um.edu.mt> by 18 September 2008. Submission of work 
submitted for formal publication elsewhere and work in progress is 
permitted.

The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the 
workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a 
special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming 
(Elsevier), following the standard reviewing process of the journal.


*REGISTRATION INFORMATION*

    * More information to follow.


*PROGRAMME COMMITTEE*

    * Björn Bjurling, SICS, Sweden
    * Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway
    * Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta (co-chair)
    * Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg University, Denmark
    * Gerardo Schneider, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair)


*CONTACT INFORMATION*

    * flacos-08 at cs.um.edu.mt <mailto:flacos-08 at cs.um.edu.mt>

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Gerardo Schneider - Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo
P.O Box 1080 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway
Phone: +47 22 85 29 71, fax: +47 22 85 24 01 
http://folk.uio.no/gerardo/ 

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