[TYPES/announce] OpenCert 2011 - Final Call for Papers
Antonio Cerone
antonio at iist.unu.edu
Mon Sep 26 20:15:49 EDT 2011
Call for Papers
OpenCert 2011
5th International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for
OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE CERTIFICATION
Montevideo, Uruguay, 14-15 November 2011
Satellite Event of SEFM 2011
http://opencert.iist.unu.edu/
Abstract submission deadline: 3 October, 2011 (Extended)
Paper submission deadline: 3 October, 2011 (Extended)
CONTEXT & OBJECTIVES
Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a
global impact
on the way software systems and software-based services are developed,
distributed and
deployed. Widely acknowledged benefits of OSS include reliability, low
development and
maintenance costs, as well as rapid code turnover. Linux distributions, Apache
and MySQL
serve, among many other examples, as a testimony to its success and resilience.
However, state-of-the-art OSS, by the very nature of its open, unconventional,
distributed
development model, make software quality assessment, let alone full
certification,
particularly hard to achieve and raises important challenges both from the
technical/methodological and the managerial points of view.
This makes the use of OSS, and, in particular, its integration within complex
industrial-strength applications, with stringent security requirements, a risk
but
also an opportunity and a challenge for rigorous, mathematically based, methods
in
software analysis and engineering.
In such a context, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers
from academia
and industry who are broadly interested in the quality assessment of open
source software
projects, ultimately leading to the establishment of coherent certification
processes,
at different levels.
Following the success of the four previous editions (collocated to ETAPS'07, in
Braga, OSS'08,
at IFIP WCC, in Milan, ETAPS'09 in York and SEFM 2010 in Pisa, respectively),
the workshop
will focus on formal methods and model-based techniques that appear promising
to facilitate
OSS certification. Foundational, methodological and pragmatic issues will be
addressed,
through both standard technical communications and reports on concrete
case-studies and
experimental data.
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions are expected to foster a broad debate on OSS assessment and
certification,
integrating techniques and elements from areas as different as
- product and process certification
- certification standards
- formal modelling and verification (model checking and theorem proving)
- software quality and reverse engineering
- static analysis, testing and inspection
- safety, security and usability certification
- languages and architectures
- software evolution and reconfigurability
- automated source code analyses
- cloud computing
- knowledge management
- empirical studies
SUBMISSION
The two-day workshop will feature invited talks, a panel discussion and
contributed
paper presentations. All contributions, in the form of either full technical
papers,
between 10 and 16 pages, or short papers up to 5 pages, will undergo a
peer-review process.
All papers should be written in English and in ECEASST format.
Short papers can be positions papers, tool papers or presentation of new ideas
or results
which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been
thoroughly evaluated.
Detailed information on the submission procedure is available at
opencert.iist.unu.edu.
PUBLICATION
Accepted full papers will be published in Electronic Communications of the
EASST (ECEASST).
Authors of short papers may resubmit a full paper version of their work after
the workshop,
which will be reviewed for inclusion in the ECEASST final proceedings.
Selected extended papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of a
reputed journal
in the field. A final decision on this issue depends on the number and quality
of the submissions.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Abstract Submission deadline: 3 October 2011
- Paper Submission deadline: 3 October 2011
- Acceptance notification: 20 October 2011
- Final version due: 31 October 2011
WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Luis Barbosa, Dep. de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Dimitrios Settas, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, Macau SAR China
ORGANISATION CO-CHAIRS
Antonio Cerone,
Siraj Shaikh,
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Luis Barbosa, Dep. de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Portugal (Co-chair)
Andrea Capiluppi, University of East London, UK
Francisco Carvalho-Junior, Univ. Federal do Ceará, Brazil
Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, Macau SAR China
Ernesto Damiani, Università di Milano, Italy
Roberto Di Cosmo, Université Paris Diderot / INRIA, France
Rafael Dueire Lins, Univ. Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
George Eleftherakis, CS Department, City College, Thessaloniki, Greece
Elsa Estevez, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, Macau SAR China
Fabrizio Fabbrini, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Andrei Formiga, Univ. Federal da Paraíba, Brazil
Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham, UK
Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Mauro Jaskelioff, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina
Panagiotis Katsaros, Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki,
Greece
Tim Kelly, York University, UK
Paddy Krishnan, Bond University, Australia
Paolo Milazzo, Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Pisa, Italy
Jose Miranda, MULTICERT, Portugal
John Noll, LERO, Ireland
Alexander K. Petrenko, ISP, Russian Academy of Science, Russian Federation
Alejandro Sanchez, Univ. Nacional de San Luis, Argentina
Dimitrios Settas, UNU-IIST, United Nations University, Macau SAR China
(Co-chair)
Sulayman K. Sowe, UNU-IAS, Japan
Ioannis Stamelos, Dept. of Informatics, Aristotle Univ. of Thessaloniki, Greece
Ralf Treinen, PPS, Université Paris Diderot, France
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