[TYPES/announce] Call for contributions: FLACOS'09

[gerardo]

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

  *Third Workshop on Formal Languages and Analysis of
Contract-Oriented Software  (FLACOS'09)*

  24-25 September 2009, Toledo - Spain
http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos09


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 8 June 2009. The number of participants in the workshop 
is strictly limited.

The previous editions of the workshop were held in Oslo in 2007 
(FLACOS'07 <http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos07>) and Malta in 2008 
(FLACOS'08 <http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos08>). The FLACOS workshops are 
partially supported by Nordunet3 <http://nordunet3.org>, under the 
project COSoDIS <http://www.ifi.uio.no/cosodis>.


*IMPORTANT DATES*

     Paper Submission Deadline:     8 June 2009
     Notification of Acceptance:      15 June 2009
     Registration Closes:                  15 August 2009
     WORKSHOP:                         24-25 September 2009


*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


*INVITED PARTICIPANTS*

    * Gilles Barthe
      <http://software.imdea.org/people/gbarthe/home.html>, IMDEA
      Software, Spain
    * Antonio Maña <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/dir/antonio/ma%C3%B1a>,
      University of Málaga, Spain
    * Ugo Montanari <http://www.di.unipi.it/%7Eugo/ugo.html>,
      Universita' di Pisa, Italy (to be confirmed)
    * Wolfgang Reisig
      <http://www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de/top/mitarbeiter/reisig/index.php?language=EN>,
      Humboldt-Universität zu Berlina, Germany
    * Kaisa Sere <http://users.abo.fi/kaisa/>, Åbo Akademi University,
      Finland
    * Martin Wirsing
      <http://www.pst.ifi.lmu.de/people/staff/wirsing/wirsing/view?set_language=en>,
      Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
    * 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, 
without page numbers, and printable on A4 paper) to 
flacos-09 at dsi.uclm.es <mailto:flacos09 at dsi.uclm.es> by 8 June 2009. 
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 
<http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/621520/description#description> 
(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)
    * Valentín Valero Ruiz, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

*
LOCAL ORGANIZATION CHAIR*

    * M. Emilia Cambronero Piqueras, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain


*CONTACT INFORMATION*

    * flacos-09 at dsi.uclm.es <mailto:flacos09 at dsi.uclm.es>

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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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