[TYPES/announce] 2nd cfp Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020)

[motogna at cs.ubbcluj.ro]

Working Formal Methods Symposium (FROM 2020)
September 4-6, 2020, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/from2020/
-A Fully Virtual Conference-

##NEW - Spriger CCIS proceedings##

##Important Dates
July 19, 2020: deadline for paper submission
August 15, 2020: notification of acceptance
August 25, 2020: revised papers for Studia pre-proceedings
August 31, 2020: registration
September 4-6, 2020: virtual symposium days
September 14, 2020: revised papers for the Springer CCIS post-proceedings



##Overview

FROM aims to bring together researchers and practitioners who work
on formal methods by contributing new theoretical results, methods,
techniques, and frameworks, and/or make the formal methods to work
by creating or using software tools that apply theoretical contributions.
Formal methods emphasize the use of mathematical techniques and rigour
for developing software and hardware. They can be used to specify,
verify, and analyse systems at any stage in their life cycle:
requirements engineering, modeling, design, architecture,
implementation, testing, maintenance and evolution. This assumes on
one hand the development of adequate mathematical methods and
frameworks and on the other hand the development of tools that help
the user effectively apply these methods/frameworks.

FROM 2020 is organized by by the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
at Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, the STAR-UBB Institute,
the Faculty of Computer Science of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of
Iasi,
ICUB (The Research Institute of the University of Bucharest),
and the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of
Bucharest.

Due to the current pandemic situation, FROM 2020 will happen as a fully
virtual
conference.

FROM 2020 is the fourth event in a yearly workshop series.
The first edition was held in 2017 in Bucharest
(http://unibuc.ro/~conference/from2017),
the second edition was held in 2018 in Iasi
(http://fmse.info.uaic.ro/event/from-2018),
and the third edition was held in 2019 in Timisoara
(http://from2019.projects.uvt.ro/).
The second edition papers have been published in Fundamenta Informaticae,
vol.l 173,
no.l 2-3,
while the third edition papers are under review process in
Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming.

The format of the symposium encourages interaction. The program
includes invited lectures and regular contributions such that
a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers
to beginning PhD students.

FROM welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies,
experience reports, challenge proposals, and position papers.

##Topics of Interest

Areas and formalisms of interest include:
+ Category theory in computer science
+ Distributed systems and concurrency
+ Formal languages and automata theory
+ Formal modelling, verification and testing
+ Logic in computer science
+ Logical frameworks
+ Mathematical structures in computer science
+ Models of computation
+ Semantics of programming languages
+ Type systems

Methods of interest include:
+ Automated reasoning and model generation
+ Automated induction
+ Certified programs
+ Data-flow and control-flow analysis
+ Deductive verification
+ Mechanized proofs
+ Model checking
+ Proof mining
+ Symbolic computation
+ Term rewriting

Applications of interest include:
+ Computational logic
+ Computer mathematics
+ Knowledge representation, ontology reasoning, deductive databases
+ Program analysis
+ Verification and synthesis of software and hardware
+ Uncertainty reasoning and soft computing

##Submissions

We expect two categories of contributions:

+Full Papers (maximum 15 pages, excluding references) present a
technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report.
They must not have been published or be concurrently considered for
publication elsewhere. Full papers will be judged on the basis of
originality,
contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and
relevance to the
conference.

+Short Papers (maximum 6 pages, excluding references) should advocate a
promising research direction, describe work in progress or provide system
descriptions.
They need not be original. We encourage especially beginning researchers
to present
a planned
path to a PhD. Short papers will be evaluated based on their clarity and
their
potential to generate interesting
discussions.

Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the
workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three reviewers.
All submissions will be handled via the EasyChair Conference system at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=from20
There is no need to indicate the paper category (long/short).

##Formatting and Publication

Papers should be written in English and should follow the formatting
requirements detailed at
http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal/about/submissions#authorGuidelines.

All accepted papers will be published online in Studia UBB Informatica
(http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/~studia-i/journal/journal)
by default, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if
desired.
At least one author of an accepted paper
must attend the symposium to present the work and participate in the
discussions.

The revised versions of the selected papers will be published in a
post-proceedings
after the conference. The post-proceedings will be published with Springer
in their
Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series
(http://www.springer.com/series/7899) . CCIS is abstracted/indexed in
DBLP, Google
Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews, SCImago, Scopus. CCIS volumes
are also
submitted for the inclusion in ISI Proceedings.

Authors of the best original contributions will also be invited to submit
extended
versions to a special issue
of a prestigious international journal.



##Invited Speakers
Andrei Arusoaie (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
Guangdong Bai (University of Queensland, Australia)
Marius Bozga (University of Grenoble, INSA, France)
Corina Carstea (University of Southampton, UK)
Wei Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Daniel David (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Radu Grosu (Vienna University of Technology , Austria)
Zhenjiang Hu (Peking University, China)
Chao Huang (Northwestern University, US)
Tudor Jebelean (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Yang Liu (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Zhiming Liu (Southwest University, China)
Quang Loc Le (University College London, UK)

Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)
Sebastian Rudolph (TU Dresden, Germany)
Traian Serbanuta (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Jun Sun (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
Meng Sun (Peking University, China)
Zhiwu Xu (Shenzhen University, China)
Hongseok Yang (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
Naijun Zhan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)


##Programme Committee
Zalan Bodo (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Xin Chen (Nanjing University, China)

Stefan Ciobaca (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
Florin Craciun (co-chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Zoltan Horvath (Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary)
Mehdi Jazayeri (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
Alexandra Jimborean (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Yanhong Huang (East China Normal University, China)
Temur Kutsia (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Ton Chanh Le (Stevens Institute of Technology, US)
Laurentiu Leustean (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Dorel Lucanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania)
Mircea Marin (West University of Timisoara, Romania)
Victor Mitrana (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Simona Motogna (co-chair) (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Chunyan Mu (Teesside University, United Kingdom)
Iulian Ober (Universite Paul Sabatier, France)
Peter Csaba Olveczky (University of Oslo, Norway)
Ion Petre (University of Turku, Finland)
Shengchao Qin (co-chair) (Teesside University, UK)
Vlad Rusu (INRIA, France)
Christian Sacarea (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Viorica Sofronie-Stokkermans (University Koblenz-Landau, Germany)
Anna Soos (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Gheorghe Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Alin Stefanescu (University of Bucharest, Romania)
Sorin Stratulat (Universite de Lorraine, France)
Keming Wang (Southwest Jiaotong University, China)
Meng Wang (Bristol University, UK)
Hengjun Zhao (Southwest University, China)

##Local Organizing Committee
Arthur Molnar (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Vladiela Petrascu (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)

##General Chairs
Florin Craciun  (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)
Simona Motogna (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania)