[TYPES/announce] ATVA 2009: 2nd Call for Papers

[Jun PANG]

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                 ATVA 2009 Call for Papers
7th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification
and Analysis
            14-16 October 2009, Macao SAR, China
                [http://www.iist.unu.edu/atva09]

The purpose of ATVA is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects
of automated analysis, verification and synthesis in East Asia by providing a
forum for interaction between the regional and the international research
communities and industry in the field.  The previous six events were held
in Taiwan (2003-5), Beijing (2006), Tokyo (2007) and Seoul (2008). The
proceedings
of ATVA 2009 will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNCS series.

SCOPE:

The scope of interest is intentionally kept broad; it includes:

 -- Theory useful for providing designers with automated support for obtaining
    correct software or hardware systems, including both functional
and non functional
    aspects, such as: theory of (timed and hybrid) automata, process
calculi, Petri-nets,
    concurrency theory, compositionality, model-checking, automated
theorem proving,
    synthesis, performance analysis, correctness-by-construction,
infinite state systems,
    abstract interpretation, decidability results, parametric analysis
or synthesis.

 -- Applications of theory in engineering methods and other particular
domains and handling
    of practical problems occurring in tools, such as analysis and
verification tools,
    synthesis tools, model transformation tools. Techniques of
reducing complexity of
    verification by abstraction, improved representations. Methods and
tools in handling user
    level notations, such as UML. Practice in industrial applications
to hardware, software
    or real-time and embedded systems. Case studies, illustrating the
usefulness of tools
    or a particular approach are also welcome.

Theory papers should be motivated by practical problems and
applications should be rooted in
sound theory. We are interested both in algorithms and in methods and
tools for integrating
formal approaches into industrial practice.

Submissions: Submissions to the conference must not have been
published or be concurrently
considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged
on the basis of originality,
contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and
relevance to the conference.
ATVA 2009 calls for two types of contributions: RESEARCH PAPERS and
TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS.
Both types of contributions will appear in the proceedings and have
oral presentations at
the conference. Papers should be written in English in LNCS format.

Research papers:
Research papers should contain original research, and sufficient
detail to assess the mer
its and relevance of the contribution. Submissions reporting on
industrial case studies
are welcome, and should describe both strengths and weaknesses in
sufficient depth.
Research papers should be no more than 15 pages.

Tool demonstration papers:
Tool demonstration papers present tools based on aforementioned theories or fall
into the above application areas. Tool demonstration papers allow researchers to
stress the technical and practical side, illustrating how one can apply the
theoretic contributions in practice. Tool demonstration papers should be no
more than 6 pages.

Submission Procedure: Further information and instruction about submission
can be found at the conference website http://www.iist.unu.edu/atva09.
Important Dates: paper submission: 1 May 2009, notification of acceptance: 15
June 2009, final copy for proceedings: 29 June 2009, ATVA 2009: 14-16
October 2009.

General Chair
Chris George, UNU-IIST, Macao

Program Chairs
Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao
Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg University, DK

Organisation Chair
Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, Macao

Publicity Chair
Jun Pang, U. Luxembourg

Workshop Chair
Xu Wang, UNU-IIST, Macao

Sponsored by:
UNU-IIST, University of Macau
Macao Polytechnic Institute

Associated Events
 -- Workshops, 11-12 October 2009
 -- Tutorials, 13 October 2009

Keynote Speakers
Mark Greenstreet (U. British Columbia)
Orna Grumberg (Technion)
Bill Roscoe (Oxford University)

PC Members
Rajeev Alur (U. Pennsylvania, US)
Christel Baier (TU Dresdenn, ED)
Jonathan Billington (U. South Australia)
Laurent Fribourg ((CNRS, FR)
Masahiro Fujita (U. Tokyo, JP)
Susanne Graf (VERIMAG, FR)
Mark Greenstreet (U. British Columbia)
Wolfgang Grieskamp (Microsoft Research, US)
Teruo Higashino (U. Osaka, JP)
Moonzoo Kim (KAIST, KR)
Orna Kupferman (U. Hebrew, IL)
Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford U., UK)
Insup Lee (U. Pennsylvania, US)
Xuandong Li (U. Nanjing, CN)
Shaoying Liu (U. Hosei, JP)
Hanne Nielson (DTU,  DK)
Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs, US)
Ernst-Ruediger Olderog (U. Oldenburg, DE)
Jun Pang (U. Luxembourg )
Doron  A. Peled (U. Warwick, UK)
Abhik Roychoudhury (National U. Singapore)
Natarajan Shankar (SRI, US)
Irek Ulidowski (U. Leicester, UK)
Mahesh Viswanathan (UIUC, US)
Farn Wang (National Taiwan University)
Ji Wang (NLPDS, CN
Xu Wang (UNU-IIST, Macao)
Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University)
Wang Yi (Uppsala University, SE)
Tomohiro Yoneda (NII, JP)
Wenhui Zhang (CAS, CN)

Steering Committee
E. Allen Emerson (U. Texas-Austin)
Teruo Higashino (Osaka University)
Oscar H. Ibarra (U. California-S.Barbara)
Insup Lee (U. Pennsylvania)
Doron A. Peled (U. Warwick, Univ. Bar Ilan)
Farn Wang (National Taiwan University)
Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University)