[TYPES/announce] CFP: WWV 2013 Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems

Thu Jan 24 07:52:57 EST 2013

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       *                        WWV 2013                           *
       *  Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems  *
       *              9th International Workshop                   *
       *                     Call for Papers                       *
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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission              March 22, 2013
Full Paper Submission            March 29, 2013
Acceptance Notification          May 3, 2013
Camera Ready (pre-proceedings)   May 20, 2013
Workshop                         June 6, 2013
Camera Ready (post-proceedings)  June 26, 2013

SCOPE

The Workshop on Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems 
(WWV, http://users.dsic.upv.es/grupos/elp/wwv/) is a yearly workshop 
that aims at providing an interdisciplinary forum to facilitate the 
cross-fertilization and the advancement of hybrid methods that exploit 
concepts and tools drawn from Rule-based programming, Software 
engineering, Formal methods and Web-oriented research.

Nowadays, many companies and institutions have diverted their Web sites 
into interactive, completely-automated, Web-based applications for, 
e.g., e-business, e-learning, e-government and e-health. The increased 
complexity and the explosive growth of Web systems has made their design 
and implementation a challenging task. Systematic, formal approaches to 
their specification and verification can permit to address the problems 
of this specific domain by means of automated and
effective techniques and tools.

Topics of either theoretical or applied interest include, but are not 
limited to:
- Rule-based approaches to Web system analysis, certification, 
specification, verification, and optimization.
- Languages and models for programming and designing Web systems.
- Formal methods for describing and reasoning about Web systems.
- Model-checking, synthesis and debugging of Web systems.
- Analysis and verification of linked data.
- Abstract interpretation and program transformation applied to the 
semantic Web.
- Intelligent tutoring and advisory systems for Web specifications 
authoring.
- Middleware and frameworks for composition and orchestration of Web 
services.
- Web quality and Web metrics.
- Web usability and accessibility.
- Testing and evaluation of Web systems and applications.

AUDIENCE

Participation to WWV is open. The workshop is intended for, but not 
limited to, researchers from the communities of Rule-based programming, 
Software engineering, Formal methods and Web-oriented research.

SUBMISSION
Submitted papers should present original unpublished work and cannot be 
under review for publication elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a 
thorough evaluation by at least three reviewers, chosen by the Program 
Committee. Contributions should be submitted through the EasyChair 
online submission system in PDF format, and should be prepared in LaTeX 
using the EPTCS-style format and should not exceed 15 pages (typeset 11 
points). Submission is a firm commitment that at least one of the 
authors will attend the workshop, if the paper is accepted.

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be included in the pre-proceedings, which will be 
made available in electronic form through the WWV web site. After the 
workshop, authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare, by
incorporating insights gathered during the event, a final version of 
their paper to be published in the post-proceedings.

We plan to publish the workshop post-proceedings as a volume of the 
EPTCS series.

STEERING COMMITTEE

Maria Alpuente    Technical University of Valencia, Spain (co-Chair)
Demis Ballis      University of Udine, Italy
Santiago Escobar  Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Moreno Falaschi   University of Siena, Italy (co-Chair)
Laura Kovacs      Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Temur Kutsia      Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Massimo Marchiori University of Padova, Italy
Rosario Pugliese  University of Florence, Italy
Josep Silva       Technical University of Valencia, Spain
Francesco Tiezzi  IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS

Antonio Ravara    New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Josep Silva 	  Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Jesus Almendros   University of Almeria, Spain
Maria Alpuente 	  Universitat Polit√®cnica de Val√®ncia, Spain
Demis Ballis 	  University of Udine, Italy
Daniela Da Cruz   Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Raymond Hu 	  Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Ivan Lanese   	  University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy
Anders Moller 	  Aarhus University, Denmark
Elie Najm   	  Telecom ParisTech, France
Kostis Sagonas 	  University of Uppsala, Sweden
Francesco Tiezzi  IMT, Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
Emilio Tuosto 	  University of Leicester, United Kingdom

WORKSHOP FORMAT

One full day meeting, including 1 or 2 invited talks and about 8 
refereed contributions.

PAST WORKSHOP EDITIONS

Started in 2005, the series of this workshop established itself as a 
lively, friendly event with many interactions and discussions.

1. WWV'05 in Valencia, Spain; March 14-15, 2005
homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv05/

2. WWW'06 in Paphos, Cyprus; November 19, 2006
homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/workshops/wwv06/

3. WWV'07 in Venice, Italy; December 14, 2007
homepage: http://wwv07.dimi.uniud.it/

4. WWV'08 in Siena, Italy; July 4, 2008
homepage: http://wwv08.dimi.uniud.it/

5. WWV'09 in Castle of Hagenberg, Austria; July 17, 2009
homepage: http://www.risc.uni-linz.ac.at/about/conferences/wwv09/

6. WWV'10 in Vienna, Austria;  July 30-31, 2010 homepage: 
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/WWV2010/

7. WWV'11 in Reykjavik, Iceland; June 9, 2011 (as part of DisCoTec 2011)
homepage: http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/wwv2011/

8. WWV'12 in Stockholm, Sweden; June 16, 2012 (as part of DisCoTec 2012)
homepage: http://users.dsic.upv.es/~jsilva/wwv2012/

The previous 7 editions of WWV attracted high quality papers that were 
published in ENTCS (WWV'05, WWV'07, WWV'08), IEEE (WWV'06) and EPTCS 
(WWV'11,WWV'12). After WWV'09, a special issue of the Journal of 
Symbolic Computation on the topics of the WWV has been organized. 
Similarly, a special issue of the Journal of Applied Logic has been 
organized after WWV'10, and a special issue of the Journal of Logic and 
Algebraic Programming is being organized after WWV'11 and WWV'12.