[TYPES/announce] FACS'2014: Deadline extension

[Ivan Lanese]

We are happy to give you a short extension for the FACS'2014 submissions, 
and take this opportunity also to annonce that we shall be delivering a 
Best paper award in partnership with EASST

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                      FACS 2014
The 11th International Symposium on Formal Aspects of Component Software
           Bertinoro, Italy, September 10-12, 2014
                http://facs2014.cs.unibo.it/

Colocated with      
iFM2014: the 11th Int. Conf. on Integrated Formal Methods
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Important Dates
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-  Abstract submission:  June 9, 2014--->Sunday June 15
-  Paper submission:     June 16, 2014-->Sunday June 22
-  Notification:         July 21, 2014
-  Final version due:    August 8, 2014

Invited speakers
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Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College (for iFM)
Helmut Veith, TU Wien (shared between iFM and FACS)
Rocco De Nicola, IMT Lucca (shared between iFM and FACS)
Jean-Bernard Stefani, INRIA (for FACS)

Colocated workshops
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Harnessing Theories for Tool Support in Software (TTSS)
Date: 9/9/2014
Organizers:

     Volker Stolz, University of Oslo, Norway
     Michael Lienhardt, University of Bologna, Italy

Business Impact of Application of Formal Methods to Security relevant
Devices (FM - BIASED)
Date: 9/9/2014
Organizers:

     Alberto Stefanini, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy

Logics and Model-checking for Self-* Systems (MOD*)
Date: 12/9/2014
Organizers:

     Marcello M. Bersani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     Davide Bresolin, University of Bologna, Italy
     Luca Ferrucci, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
     Manuel Mazzara, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Tools and Methods for Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems
Date: 12/9/2014
Organizers:

     John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK
     Wan Fokkink, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     Michel Reniers, Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands

ENVISAGE Contracts for SLAs
Date: 12/9/2014
Organizers:

     Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy
     Elena Giachino, University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy

Scope
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Component-based software development is a paradigm that has been
proposing sound engineering principles and techniques for coping with
the complexity of software-intensive systems. However, many
challenging conceptual and technological issues remain that require
further research.
Moreover, the advent of service-oriented and cloud computing has
brought to the fore new dimensions, such as quality of service and
robustness to withstand inevitable faults, which require established
concepts to be revisited and new ones to be developed in order to meet
the opportunities offered by those architectures. As software
applications become themselves components of wider socio-technical
systems, further challenges arise from the need to create and manage
interactions, which can evolve in time and space, and rely on the use
of resources that can change in non-computable ways.
FACS 2014 is concerned with how formal methods can be used to make
component-based development fit for the new architectures of today
and the systems that are now pervading the socio-economic
world.
Formal methods have provided foundations for component-based
software through research on mathematical models for components,
composition and adaptation, and rigorous approaches to verification,
deployment, testing, and certification. Whilst those avenues still
need to be further explored, time is also ripe to bring new techniques to
the fore, such as those based on stochastic models and simulation.

Topics of Interest
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The symposium seeks to address the development and
application of formal methods in all aspects of software
components and services. Specific topics include, but are not
limited to:

 - formal models for software components and their interaction
 - formal aspects of services, service oriented architectures,
business processes, cloud computing, ensembles, or similar programming 
artifacts
 - design and verification methods for software components and
services
 - composition and deployment: models, calculi, languages
 - formal methods and modeling languages for components and services
 - model based and GUI based testing of components and services
 - models for QoS and other extra-functional properties (e.g., trust,
compliance, security) of components and services
 - components for real-time, safety-critical, secure, and/or embedded
systems
 - stochastic techniques for modelling and verification
 - simulation techniques for complex networks of interacting
components
 - industrial or experience reports, and case studies
 - update and reconfiguration of component and service architectures
 - component systems evolution and maintenance
 - autonomic components and self-managed applications
 - formal and rigorous approaches to software adaptation and
self-adaptive systems
 - tools supporting the formal methods for components and services

Call for Papers
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We solicit high-quality submissions reporting on (as related to topics
mentioned
here):
- A) original research contributions (18 pages max);
- B) applications and experiences (18 pages max);
- C) surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (18 pages
max);
- D) tool papers (6 pages max);
In addition, we solicit submissions to the Doctoral Track of FACS
2014, in the form of abstracts (3 pages max) concisely capturing work in 
progress, related topic, context, research questions, envisaged 
contributions, and partial results.

All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted
concurrently for publication elsewhere. Papers should be formatted 
according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers.

All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FACS 2014.
Revised versions of accepted papers in the categories A-D above will 
appear in the post-proceedings of the symposium that will be published as 
a volume in Springer's LNCS series.
A best paper award will be given in collaboration with EASST.

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
Elsevier's Science of Computer Programming journal.