[the usual apologies for duplicates] Note that the FMOODS registration page is now available and can be accessed through the conference web site. Hotel rooms are often hard to find in Palo Alto, so booking early is advised. ============================================================================== Call for Participation Demos and Posters FMOODS 2000 IFIP TC6/WG6.1 Fourth International Conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems Stanford University , Stanford, California, USA September 6-8, 2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Electronic Information * The conference home page is found at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fmoods2000 * Conference-related email should be addressed to fmoods2000@cs.stanford.edu * Information on the FMOODS series of conferences can be found at http://www.cs.ukc.ac.uk/research/netdist/fmoods ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Posters The poster session will provide an opportunity for attendees to learn about innovative work in progress and to preview late-breaking research results. Submission instructions: Researchers interested in presenting a poster should prepare an overview of their proposed poster in the form of text or postscript file of no more than 1000 words in length. Send the poster title, and the names and affiliations of its authors (including email address), along with the overview (as text in the body of the email, or as an attachment), to: fmoods2000@steam.stanford.edu. Research students working on FMOODS relevant topics are encouraged to participate in the poster session. Deadlines: Poster abstract submission: August 15, 2000 Poster acceptance nofication: within 7-10 days after submission is received. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Demos FMOODS 2000 will include a session of software demonstrations. Submission instructions are identical to the poster submission mechanism above. All equipment should be provided by you (bring a laptop); we will provide an internet connection as well as a large display for PC-compatible computers. Demonstrations related to papers appearing at the conference are particuarly encouraged. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Student Grants We have applied for funding to provide some student grants for attending FMOODS. If you are a student and are in need of a grant to support travel expenses send an inquiry to fmoods2000@cs.stanford.edu including your name, institution, status, and research interests (one or two lines). Priority will be given to students presenting posters. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Invited Speakers * Jose Meseguer, SRI International * Roberto Gorrieri, U. Bologna, Italy * Jaydev Misra, U. Texas, Austin * Alan Karp, Open Systems Operation, Hewlett-Packard A preliminary program and abstracts is available from the conference web page. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Co-located with SPIN'2000, 7th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software, to be held at Stanford the previous week August 30-31, September 1. See: http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/spin2000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Objectives Object-based Distributed Computing is being established as the most pertinent basis for the support of large, heterogeneous computing and telecommunications systems. Indeed, several important international organisations, such as ITU, ISO, OMG, TINA-C, etc. are defining similar distributed object-based frameworks as a foundation for open distributed computing. The advent of Open Object-based Distributed Systems - OODS - brings new challenges and opportunities for the use and development of formal methods. New architectures and system models are emerging (e.g., the enterprise, information, computational and engineering viewpoints of the ITU-T/ISO/IEC ODP Reference Model) which require formal notational support. Usual design issues such as specification, verification, refinement, and testing need to take into account new dimensions introduced by distribution and openness, such as quality of service and dependability constraints, dynamic binding and reconfiguration, consistency between multiple models and viewpoints, etc. OODS is a challenging research context and a source of motivation for semantical models of object-based systems and notations, for the evolution of standardised formal description techniques, for the application and assessment of logic based approaches, for better understanding and information modeling of business requirements, and for the further development and use of Object Oriented methodologies and tools. The objective of FMOODS is to provide an integrated forum for the presentation of research in several related fields, and the exchange of ideas and experiences in the topics concerned with the formal methods support for Open Object-based Distributed Systems. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * formal models for object-based distributed computing * semantics of object-based distributed systems and programming languages * formal techniques in object-based and object-oriented specification, analysis and design * refinement and transformation of specifications * types, service types and subtyping * interoperability and composability of distributed services * object-based coordination languages * object-based mobile languages * efficient analysis techniques of specifications * multiple viewpoint modelling and consistency between different models * formal techniques in distributed systems verification and testing * specification, verification and testing of quality of service constraints * formal methods and object life cycle * beyond IDL: semantics based specification patterns * formal models for measuring the quality of object-oriented requirement or design specifications * formal aspects of distributed real-time multimedia systems * applications to telecommunications and related areas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conference Organizers Carolyn Talcott(Chair) Scott Smith(PC Chair) Tel: + 650 723-0936 Tel: + 410 516-5299 Fax: + 650 725-7411 Fax: + 410 516-6134 Stanford University The Johns Hopkins University Stanford, CA, USA Balimore, MD, USA clt@cs.stanford.edu scott@cs.jhu.edu Nalini Venkatasubramanian Sriram Sankar Tel: + 949 824-5898 Tel: + 510 796-0915 Fax: + 949 824-4056 Fax:+ 510 796-0916 University of California at Irvine Metamata Inc. Irvine, CA, USA Fremont, CA, USA nalini@ics.uci.edu sriram.sankar@metamata.com Program Committee * Gul Agha (U. of Illinois, USA) * Patrick Bellot (ENST, Paris, France) * Lynne Blair (U. Lancaster, UK) * Howard Bowman (UKC, Kent, UK) * Paolo Ciancarini (U. Bologna, Italy) * John Derrick (UKC, Kent, UK) * Michel Diaz (LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France) * Alessandro Fantechi (U. Firenze, Italy) * Kathleen Fisher (ATT Research Labs, USA) * Kokichi Futatsugi (Jaist, Ishikawa, Japan) * Joseph Goguen (UC San Diego, USA) * Roberto Gorrieri (U. Bologna, Italy) * Guy Leduc (U. of Liege, Belgium) * Luigi Logrippo (U of Ottawa, Canada) * David Luckham (Stanford University, USA) * Jan de Meer (GMD Fokus, Berlin, Germany) * Elie Najm (ENST, Paris, France) * Dusko Pavlovic (Kestrel Institute, USA) * Omar Rafiq (U. of Pau, France) * Arend Rensink (U. Twente, Netherlands) * Sriram Sankar (Metamata Inc., USA) * Gerd Schuermann (GMD Fokus, Berlin, Germany) * Scott Smith (Johns Hopkins University, USA) * Jean-Bernard Stefani (FT/CNET, Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) * Carolyn Talcott (Stanford University, USA) * Nalini Venkatasubramanian (UC Irvine, USA) Sponsors - IFIP ------------------------------------------------------------------------