Our apology for possible multiple copies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTAC'09 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** Equatorial Hotel Bangi, Malaysia University Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM) August 16th - 20th 2009 http://www.ictac.net/ictac09/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing is taking place from the 16th till the 20th of August 2009 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ICTAC'09 is organized by Abdullah Mohd Zin, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and Jeff Sanders, United Nation University, Institute of Software Technology, Macao. The PC is chaired by Martin Leucker (TU Munich) and Carroll Morgan (UNSW). Visit http://www.ictac.net/ictac09 for a preliminary web page. About ICTAC 2009 ---------------- ICTAC 2009 is the 6th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing, the latest in a series founded by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). The main purpose of ICTAC is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research and to exchange ideas and experience addressing challenges in both theoretical aspects of computing and in the exploitation of theory through methods and tools for system development. The previous four ICTAC events were held in Guiyang, China (2004), Hanoi, Vietnam (2005), Tunis, Tunisia (2006), Macau (2007) and Istanbul (2008). Workshops --------- The main conference is surrounded by workshops and a summer school. See the web page for more details. Invited Speakers ---------------- Zuohua Ding Zhejiang Sci-Tech University Leslie Lamport Microsoft Annabelle McIver Macquarie University Sriram Rajamani Microsoft Scope ----- Topics include, but are not limited to: * software specification, refinement, verification and testing * model checking and theorem proving * software architectures * coordination and feature interaction * integration of theories, formal and engineering methods and tools * models of concurrency, security, and mobility * parallel, distributed, and internet-based (grid) computing * real-time, embedded and hybrid systems * automata theory and formal languages * principles and semantics of languages * logics and their applications * type and category theory in computer science * case studies, theories, tools and experiments of verified systems * service-oriented architectures: models and development methods * domain modelling and domain-specific technology: examples, frameworks and experience Paper Submissions ----------------- ICTAC 2009 calls for two types of contributions: RESEARCH PAPERS and TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS. Both types of contributions will appear in the LNCS proceedings and have oral presentations at the conference. Papers should be written in English in LNCS format. RESEARCH PAPERS: Research papers should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Submissions reporting on industrial case studies are welcome, and should describe both strengths and weaknesses in sufficient depth. Research papers should be no more than 15 pages. TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS: Tool demonstration papers present tools based on aforementioned theories or fall into the above application areas. Tool demonstration papers allow researchers to stress the technical and practical side, illustrating how one can apply the theoretic contributions in practice. Tool demonstration papers should be no more than 6 pages. As usual, submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. Submission constitutes a commitment to attend and present a paper, if accepted. Proceedings of ICTAC 2009 will be published by Springer in the LNCS series. Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: 6 April 2009 Submission of Papers: 10 April 2009 Notification of acceptance: 25 May 2009 Final copy for proceedings: 1 June 2009 ICTAC 2009: 16 - 20 August 2009 Committees ---------- General Chair ------------- Abdullah Mohd Zin Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Jeff Sanders United Nation University, Institute of Software Technology, Macao Program Chairs -------------- Martin Leucker Technische Universität München, Germany Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales Local Organizing Committee -------------------------- Zarina Shukur, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (Chairperson) Nazlia Omar Syahanim Mohd Salleh Program Committee ----------------- Parosh Abdulla Uppsala University, Schweden Keijiro Araki Kyushu University, Japan Farhad Arbab Leids University, The Netherlands Christel Baier Technical University of Dresden, Germany Mario Bravetti Universita di Bologna, Italian Ana Cavalcanti University of York, England Van Hung Dang United Nations University, Macao David Deharbe Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil Wei Dong Zhejiang University, China Deepak D'Souza Indian Institute of Science, India John Fitzgerald Newcastle Uiversity, England Wan Fokkink Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Marcelo Frias University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Kokichi Futatsugi JAIST, Japan Paul Gastin LSV/ENS Cachan, France Susanne Graf VERIMAG, France Lindsay Groves Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Anne Haxthausen Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Moonzoo Kim KAIST, South Korea Kim G. Larsen Aalborg University, Denmark Insup Lee University of Pennsylvania, USA Martin Leucker TU Munich, Germany Kamal Lodaya Institute of Mathematical Sciences, India Larissa Meinicke Abo Akademi, Finland Ugo Montanari University of Pisa, Italian Carroll Morgan University of New South Wales, Australia Ahmed Patel Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Malaysia Pekka Pihlajasaari Cadence Research Labs, USA Abhik Roychoudhury National University of Singapore, Singapore Hassen Saidi SRI International, USA Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Cesar Sanchez IMDEA, Spain Marjan Sirjani University of Tehran, Iran Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada Serdar Tasiran Koc University, Turkey Helmut Veith Technical University Darmstadt, Germany Mahesh Viswanathan University of Illinois at Urbana, USA Tomas Vojnar Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic Ji Wang Zhejiang University, China Jim Woodcock University of York, England Husnu Yenigun Sabanci University, Turkey Naijun Zhan Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China Steering Committee ------------------ John Fitzgerald University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Martin Leucker Technische Universität München, Germany Zhiming Liu (Chair) UNU-IIST, Macao Tobias Nipkow Technische Universität München, Germany Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil Natarajan Shankar SRI, USA Jim Woodcock University of York, UK