[TYPES/announce] QAPL 2011 Call For Participation

[Gethin Norman]

[Apologies for multiple copies]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Ninth Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages (QAPL2011)
Affiliated with ETAPS 2011 April 1-3, 2011, Saarbruecken, Germany
http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/qapl11/
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PROGRAMME:

The programme for the workshop is available from:

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/qapl11/qapl11_programme.html

REGISTRATION

Registration is through the ETAPS registration page:

http://www.etaps.org/registration

Details on the venue, local information and accommodation are also available
through the ETAPS site:

http://www.etaps.org

INVITED SPEAKERS:

* Prakash Panangaden, McGill University, Canada
  Equivalences for Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes

* Erik de Vink, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, the Netherlands
  Decorating and Model Checking Stochastic Reo Connectors

SCOPE:

Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes essential in
characterising the behavior and determining the properties of systems. They
are related to the use of physical quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth,
etc.) as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures for
reliability, security and trust). Such quantities play a central role in
defining both the model of systems (architecture, language design, semantics)
and the methodologies and tools for the analysis and verification of system
properties. The aim of this workshop is to discuss the explicit use of
quantitative information such as time and probabilities either directly in the
model or as a tool for the analysis of systems.

In particular, the workshop focuses on:

* the design of probabilistic, real-time, quantum languages and the
  definition of semantical models for such languages

* the discussion of methodologies for the analysis of probabilistic and
  timing properties (e.g. security, safety, schedulability) and of other
  quantifiable properties such as reliability (for hardware components),
  trustworthiness (in information security) and resource usage (e.g.,
  worst-case memory/stack/cache requirements)

* the probabilistic analysis of systems which do not explicitly incorporate
  quantitative aspects (e.g. performance, reliability and risk analysis)

* applications to safety-critical systems, communication protocols, control
  systems, asynchronous hardware, and to any other domain involving
  quantitative issues

ORGANIZATION:

PC Chairs:

  * Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy
  * Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK

Program Committee:

  * Alessandro Aldini, University of Urbino, Italy
  * Christel Baier, University of Dresden, Germany
  * Marco Bernardo, University of Urbino, Italy
  * Nathalie Bertrand, IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France
  * Patricia Bouyer, Oxford University, UK
  * Jeremy Bradley, Imperial College London, UK
  * Tomas Brazdil, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
  * Frank van Breugel, York University, Canada
  * Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, Macao
  * Kostas Chatzikokolakis, University of Eindohoven, NL
  * Josee Desharnais, University of Laval, Canada
  * Alessandra Di Pierro, University of Verona, Italy
  * Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Pisa, Italy
  * Paulo Mateus, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
  * Annabelle McIver, Maquarie University, Australia
  * Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK
  * David Parker, University of Oxford, UK
  * Anne Remke,  University of Twente, the Netherlands
  * Jeremy Sproston, University of Torino, Italy
  * Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College London, UK
  * Verena Wolf, Saarland University, Germany


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