[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS FM 2012 ********************************************************************** 18TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON FORMAL METHODS August 27 - 31, 2012 CNAM, Paris, France http://fm2012.cnam.fr ********************************************************************** Submission Deadline: March 5th, 2012 SCOPE: FM 2012 is the eighteenth in a series of symposia organized by Formal Methods Europe, an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together innovators and practitioners in precise mathematical methods for software and systems development, industrial users as well as researchers. Submissions are welcomed in the form of original papers on research and industrial experience, proposals for workshops and tutorials, entries for the exhibition of software tools and projects, and reports on ongoing doctoral work. The FM 2012 Symposium will be based around the theme Interdisciplinary Formal Methods It will have the goal of highlighting the development and application of formal methods in connection with a variety of disciplines such as medicine, biology, human cognitive modelling, human automation interactions and aeronautics, among others. FM 2012 particularly welcomes papers on techniques, tools and experiences in interdisciplinary frameworks, as well as on experience with practical applications of formal methods in industrial and research settings, experimental validation of tools and methods as well as construction and evolution of formal methods tools. The broad topics of interest for FM 2012 include but are not limited to: Interdisciplinary formal methods: techniques, tools and experiences demonstrating formal methods in interdisciplinary frameworks; we encourage submissions involving formal methods related to maintenance, human automation interaction, human in the loop, system engineering, medicine and biology. Formal methods in practice: industrial applications of formal methods, experience with introducing formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. Authors are encouraged to explain how the use of formal methods has overcome problems, lead to improvements in design or provided new insights. Tools for formal methods: advances in automated verification and model-checking, integration of tools, environments for formal methods, experimental validation of tools. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate empirically that the new tool or environment advances the state of the art. Role of formal methods in software and systems engineering: development processes with formal methods, usage guidelines for formal methods, method integration. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate that process innovations lead to qualitative or quantitative improvements. Theoretical foundations: all aspects of theory related to specification, verification, refinement, and static and dynamic analysis. Authors are encouraged to explain how their results contribute to the solution of practical problems with methods or tools. Teaching formal methods: original contributions that provide insight, evaluations and suggestions for courses of action regarding the teaching of formal methods, including teaching experiences, educational resources, the integration of formal methods into the curriculum, the definition of a formal methods body of knowledge, etc. Authors are encouraged to provide some form of evaluation and assessment of the content and approach in the teaching being reported. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the Programme Committee. They should be in Springer LNCS format and describe, in English, original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. PDF versions of papers should be submitted through the FM 2012 EasyChair web site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fm2012 We solicit two categories of papers: Regular papers not exceeding 15 pages (including appendices), describing fully developed work. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by reviewers. Similarly, case study papers should describe significant case studies and the complete development should be made available for use by reviewers. Tools papers of a maximum of 4 pages should describe an operational tool and its contributions; 2 additional pages of appendices are allowed that will not be included in the proceedings. Tool papers should explain enhancements made compared to previously published work. A tool paper need not present the theory behind the tool but can focus more on its features, and how it is used, with screen shots and examples. Authors of tools papers should make their tool available for use by reviewers. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings, to appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission: March 5th, 2012 Notification: May 7th, 2012 Camera ready: June 4th, 2012 GENERAL CHAIRS: Kamel Barkaoui - Cedric, Cnam Paris Beatrice Berard - LIP6, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie PC CHAIRS: Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, Research Center, Moffett Field Dominique Mery, LORIA et Universite Henri Poincare Nancy 1 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/ENSEEIHT France Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan Jos Baeten, CWI Amsterdam, The Netherlands Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester, UK Saddek Bensalem, Universite Joseph Fourier, France Bruno Blanchet, LIENS, France Ahmed Bouajjani, LIAFA, Universite Paris 7, France Patricia Bouyer, LSV, CNRS& ENS Cachan, France Victor Braberman, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology , Austria Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Leonardo De Moura, Microsoft Research, USA Dino Distefano, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University, Germany John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK (chair) Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Klaus Havelund, JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Matthew Hennessy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Jane Hillston, University of Edinburgh, UK Bart Jacobs, ICIS, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands Claude Jard, ENS Cachan Bretagne, France Panagiotis Katsaros, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK Marta Kwiatkowska, Oxford University, UK Pascale Le Gall, Universite d'Evry, France Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA Michael Leuschel, University of Dusseldorf, Germany Zhiming Liu, United Nations University - IIST, Macao Tom Maibaum, McMaster University, Canada Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck, Germany Annabelle Mciver, Macquarie University, Australia (chair) Dominique Mery, Universite Henri Poincare Nancy 1& LORIA, France Cesar Munoz, NASA, USA Fernando Orejas, UPC, Spain Isabelle Perseil, Inserm, France Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK S Ramesh, General Motors R&D, India Jean-Francois Raskin, ULB, Belgium Neha Rungta, SGT/NASA Ames, USA Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Bernhard Schaetz, TU Munchen, Germany Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi University, Finland Bernhard Steffen, TU Dortmund, Germany Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Francois Vernadat, LAAS-CNRS INSA, France Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA ********************************************************************** This call for papers and additional information about the conference can be found athttp://fm2012.cnam.fr. 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