[TYPES/announce] CfP: FORMATS'12 - 10th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

[Nickovic Dejan]

CALL FOR PAPERS

FORMATS 2012
10th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
18-20 September, 2012
http://go.warwick.ac.uk/formats2012/

(Co-located with QEST 2012)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------                   
Objective and Scope: 

Timing aspects of systems from a variety of computer science domains have been treated independently by different communities. Researchers interested in semantics, verification and performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses after sampling the environment. 

Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems that are common to all of them. In particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behavior depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of events. 

The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines that share interests in modeling and analysis of timed systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to): 

      * Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata, timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic models). 
        
      * Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis, optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.). 
        
      * Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications). 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------        
Important Dates: 

      * Abstract submission: 7 May 2012
      * Paper submission: 11 May 2012
      * Notification: 15 June 2012
      * Final version due: 7 July 2012

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Program Chairs:

Marcin Jurdziński, University of Warwick, UK Dejan Nickovic, AIT, Austria

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
QEST/FORMATS Keynote Speaker:

Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA

FORMATS Invited Speakers:

Twan Basten, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands 

Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
        
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Submission and Publication: 

The proceedings of FORMATS 2012 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers must contain original contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate references to and comparison with related work. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages, and should be formatted according to Springer LNCS guidelines. If necessary, the submission may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee.

You can submit your paper to FORMATS 2012 using its EasyChair site
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=formats2012

--
Dejan Nickovic
Scientist
Department Safety and Security
Business Unit Safe and Autonomous Systems
AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Donau-City-Straße 1  |  1220 Vienna  | Austria
T +43(0) 50550-4021 | M +43(0) 66488-390038  |  F +43(0) 50550-4150
dejan.nickovic at ait.ac.at  |  http://www.ait.ac.at
 
FN: 115980 i HG Wien  |  UID: ATU14703506
This email and any attachments thereto, is intended only for use by the addressee(s) named herein and may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender by return e-mail or by telephone and delete this message from your system and any printout thereof. Any unauthorized use, reproduction, or dissemination of this message is strictly prohibited. Please note that e-mails are susceptible to change. AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH shall not be liable for the improper or incomplete transmission of the information contained in this communication, nor shall it be liable for any delay in its receipt.