[TYPES/announce] 4PAD 2018 (deadline extension): 5th International Symposium on Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems

[Frederic Loulergue]

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Extended deadline : April 8th, 2018

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=                    CALL FOR PAPERS                       =
=             5th International Symposium on               =
=   Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems  =
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=          16th International Conference on                =
=  High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018)     =
= http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ =
=             Orleans, France, July 17-19, 2018            =
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http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia---hpcs2018/symp05-4pad

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES

The aim of 4PAD is to foster interaction between the formal methods
communities and systems researchers working on topics in modern
parallel, distributed, and network-based processing systems (e.g.,
autonomous computing systems, cloud computing systems,
service-oriented systems and parallel computing architectures).

4PAD topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

* Rigorous software engineering approaches and their tool support;
* Model-based approaches, including model-driven development;
* Service- and component-based approaches;
* Semantics, types and logics;
* Formal specification and verification;
* Performance analysis based on formal approaches;
* Formal aspects of programming paradigms and languages;
* Formal approaches to parallel architectures and weak memory models;
* Formal approaches to deployment, run-time analysis,
   adaptation/evolution, reconfiguration, and monitoring;
* Case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches;
* Formal stochastic models and analysis;
* Formal methods for large-scale distributed systems;
* Statistical analysis techniques based on formal approaches.

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on
above and other topics related to Formal Approaches to Parallel and
Distributed Systems.  Submitted papers must not have been published or
simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS
proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. For
Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not
to exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages per template, and
include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words.
Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer
to
http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters
for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please
specify the type of submission you have.  Please include page numbers
on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to
provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the symposium paper
submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=4pad.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submissions: April 8, 2018 (extended, firm)
Acceptance Notification: April 26, 2018
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: May 11, 2018
Conference Dates (HPCS and affiliated events): July 16-20, 2018

SPECIAL ISSUE

After the symposium, authors of selected papers will be invited to
submitted extended version of their papers for possible publication in
a special issue of the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in
Programming (JLAMP).

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gul Agha        University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Marco Aldinucci        University of Torino, IT
Allan Blanchard        Inria, FR
Simon Bliudze        Inria, FR
Laura Bocchi        University of Kent, UK
Jean-Michel Couvreur     University of Orleans, FR, chair
Kento Emoto        Kyushu Institute of Technology, JP
Gidon Ernst        National Institute of Informatics, JP
Joaquin Ezpeleta    Universidad de Zaragoza, ES
Ylies Falcone        Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, FR
Serge Haddad        LSV, ENS Cachan, CNRS, Inria, FR
Ludovic Henrio        CNRS, FR
Claude Jard        University of Nantes, FR
Igor Konnov        Vienna University of Technology, AT
Sandeep Kulkarni    Michigan State University, USA
Alberto Lluch Lafuente    Technical University of Denmark, DK
Frederic Loulergue     Northern Arizona University, USA, chair
Neeraj Mittal        The University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Gwen Salaun        University of Grenoble Alpes, FR
Sven Schewe        University of Liverpool, UK
Elena Sherman        Boise State University,    USA
Francesco Tiezzi    Universita di Camerino, IT
Enrico    Tronci        Sapienza University of Rome, IT
Emilio Tuosto        University of Leicester, UK