CAUTION: The Sender of this email is not from within Dalhousie. --------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2020), 2-6 November 2020, Singapore (subject to changes, including backup options such as postponing the conference or hosting it online). http://formal-analysis.com/icfem/2020/ Extended deadlines: Full Paper Submissions Due: 17 May 2020 (AoE) Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due: 20 March 2020 Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 5 July 2020 Camera-ready Due: 17 July 2020 Since 1997, ICFEM provides a forum for both researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing practical formal methods for software engineering or applying existing formal techniques to improve software development process in practice systems. Formal Methods for the development of computer systems have been extensively researched and studied. We now have good theoretical understandings of how to describe what programs do, how they do it, and why they work. A range of semantic theories, specification languages, design techniques, verification methods, and supporting tools have been developed and applied to the construction of programs of moderate size that are used in critical applications. The remaining challenge now is how to deal with problems in developing and maintaining large scale and complex computer systems. The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to help advance state of the art. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical, tangible engineering benefits. Scope and Topics: Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal engineering methods and their practical applications will also be considered: • Abstraction, refinement and evolution • Formal specification and modelling • Formal verification and analysis • Model checking • Formal approaches to software testing and inspection • Formal methods for self-adaptive systems • Formal methods for object-oriented systems • Formal methods for component-based systems • Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems • Formal methods for cloud computing • Formal methods for cyber-physical systems • Formal methods for software safety and security • Formal methods for software reliability and dependability • Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems • Formal certification of products under international standards • Formal model-based development and code generation Submission and Publication: 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. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format. Submissions should be made through the ICFEM 2020 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem20 Workshop or tutorial proposals should be directly sent to the Workshop Chair via email. Each proposal should include (1) title, scope, and aims, (2) brief bio of the organizer or lecturer, and (3) postal and email addresses. Organising Committee: General Chair Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Program Co-Chairs Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Finance Chair Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Workshop Chair Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Doctoral Symposium Chair Lei Ma, Kyushu University, Japan Program Committee Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France Étienne André, Univesrity of Lorraine, France Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Yean-Ru Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore Ranald Clouston, Australian National University, Australia Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud, France Florin Craciun, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania Jeremy Dawson, Australian National University, Australia Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia Naipeng Dong, University of Queensland, Australia Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Xudong He, Florida International University, United States Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China Brendan Mahony, DSTO, Australia Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, France Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain David Sanan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia Meng Sun, Peking University, China Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway ====== Ichiro Hasuo Associate Professor, National Institute of Informatics i.hasuo@acm.org Secretaries: hasuolab-secr@nii.ac.jp http://group-mmm.org/~ichiro/ [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]