[TYPES/announce] 1st CfP: Third International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems (FTSCS'14)

[Peter Csaba Ölveczky]

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                       Call for Papers

                          FTSCS 2014

3rd International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems

                Luxembourg, November 6-7, 2014
              (satellite workshop of ICFEM 2014)

                    http://www.ftscs.org

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*** Science of Computer Programming special issue ***
*** Springer CCIS proceedings ***


Aims and Scope:

There is an increasing demand in industry to use formal methods to
achieve software-independent verification and validation of
safety-critical systems, e.g., in fields such as avionics, automotive,
medical, and other cyber-physical systems. Newer standards, such as
DO-178C (avionics) and ISO 26262 (automotive), emphasize the need for
formal methods and model-based development, speeding up the
adaptation of such methods in industry.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers
who are interested in the application of formal and semi-formal methods
to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems. In
particular, FTSCS strives to promote research and development of
formal methods and tools for industrial applications, and is particularly
interested in industrial applications of formal methods.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

* case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for
analyzing safety-critical systems, including avionics, automotive,
medical, and other kinds of safety-critical and QoS-critical systems
* methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis,
certification, debugging, etc., of complex safety/QoS-critical systems
* analysis methods that address the limitations of formal methods in
industry (usability, scalability, etc.)
* formal analysis support for modeling languages used in industry,
such as AADL, Ptolemy, SysML, SCADE, Modelica, etc.
* code generation from validated models.

The workshop will provide a platform for discussions and the exchange of
innovative ideas, so submissions on work in progress are encouraged.


Submission:

We solicit submissions reporting on:

A- original research contributions (15 pages max, LNCS format);
B- applications and experiences (15 pages max, LNCS format);
C- surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (15 pages max, LNCS);
D- tool papers (5 pages max, LNCS format);
E- position papers and work in progress (5 pages max, LNCS format)

related to the topics mentioned above.


All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted
concurrently for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done
via EasyChair at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftscs2014.
The final version of the paper must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to
the LNCS format available at
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.


Publication:

All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FTSCS 2014.
Accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the
workshop proceedings that will be published as a volume in
Springer's CCIS series. 

The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to
submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue
of the Science of Computer Programming journal.


Important dates:

Submission deadline: September 6, 2014
Notification of acceptance: October 3, 2014
Workshop: November 6/7, 2014


Venue:

Luxembourg


Program chairs:

Cyrille Artho        AIST, Japan
Peter Olveczky       University of Oslo, Norway


Program committee:

Erika Abraham        RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Musab AlTurki        King Fahd Univ. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
Toshiaki Aoki        JAIST, Japan
Farhad Arbab         Leiden University and CWI, The Netherlands
Cyrille Artho        AIST, Japan
Kyungmin Bae         University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Saddek Bensalem      Verimag, France
Armin Biere          Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Ansgar Fehnker       University of the South Pacific, Fiji
Mamoun Filali        IRIT, France
Bernd Fischer        Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Klaus Havelund       NASA JPL, USA
Marieke Huisman      University of Twente, The Netherlands
Ralf Huuck           NICTA, Australia
Fuyuki Ishikawa      National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Takashi Kitamura     AIST, Japan
Alexander Knapp      Augsburg University, Germany
Yang Liu             Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Frederic Mallet      INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
Robi Malik           University of Waikato, New Zealand
Cesar Munoz          NASA Langley, USA
Thomas Noll          RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Peter Olveczky       University of Oslo, Norway
Charles Pecheur      Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
Paul Pettersson      Malardalen University, Sweden
Camilo Rocha         Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria, Colombia
Ralf Sasse           ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Oleg Sokolsky        University of Pennsylvania, USA
Sofiene Tahar        Concordia University, Canada
Carolyn Talcott      SRI International, USA
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya   Osaka University, Japan
Jackie Wang          McMaster University, Canada
Michael Whalen       University of Minnesota, USA
Huibiao Zhu          East China Normal University, China


Contact:

(web)    http://www.ftscs.org
(email)  peterol at ifi.uio.no  and  c.artho at aist.go.jp