[TYPES/announce] Call for Workshop Proposals: ICGT/SPIN 2010

[Eduardo Zambon]

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We are inviting people to submit proposals for satellite workshops for
the joint event of the Fifth International Conference on Graph
Transformation (ICGT 2010) and the 17th International SPIN Workshop on
Model Checking Software (SPIN 2010). Both events will take place at
the University of Twente (Enschede, The Netherlands), between September
27th and October 2nd, 2010.  Further information is available at the
ICGT/SPIN website: <http://www.utwente.nl/icgt-spin/>.

We solicit proposals for high-quality workshops related to the field of
graph transformations and software verification and validation, from
academic research to industrial applications.

The purpose of the workshops is to enhance and diversify the main
events, to provide an informal setting for workshop participants to
discuss technical issues, exchange research ideas, and to discuss and
demonstrate applications. The workshops may be driven by theoretical
foundations or by applications of graph transformation and software
verification and validation to a variety of areas.

(1) Workshop Proposal Requirements

Proposals for workshops should be no more than 5 pages in length and
submitted to the ICGT/SPIN workshop chair before December 18th, 2009.

A workshop proposal should contain at least the following information:

- Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the
goals and the technical issues that will be its focus.

- A brief description of why the workshop is of interest and what is
the target audience.

- The names and contact information (web page, email address) of the
Program Committee (PC) chairs, i.e., the workshop organizers. Moreover,
a tentative list of workshop PC members should be given.

- A list of related workshops or similar events held in the past.

- The preferred dates (either pre- or post-conference for ICGT or SPIN),
the duration, and the estimated number of participants.

(2) Responsibilities

The workshop organizer(s) will be responsible for the following:

- Producing a web page and a "Call for Papers/Participation" for their
workshop. Based on the notification deadline of the main conferences we
expect the submission deadlines for the workshops to be in the
beginning of June 2010.

- Advertising the workshop on the appropriate mailing lists.

- Appointing session chairs, etc.

- Inviting and reimbursing the keynote speakers. The local organization
of the conference can take care of the production of workshop pre-
proceedings.

(3) Submitting a Workshop Proposal

Expressions of interest and full proposals may be submitted in any one
of the following formats: ASCII text, PostScript, PDF or Microsoft
Word.

Please send your proposals and any inquiries by electronic mail to:
Amir Hossein Ghamarian <a.h.ghamarian at cs.utwente.nl>

(4) Important Dates

Deadline workshop proposals: December 18th, 2009
Notification of acceptance:  January 15th, 2010
Paper submission (tentative): Start of June 2010

ICGT/SPIN Workshop chair 2010
Amir Hossein Ghamarian
E-mail: a.h.ghamarian at cs.utwente.nl