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Apologies for multiple copies !! ============================================================================== Call for Papers FMOODS'2000 IFIP TC6/WG6.1 Third 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/~fmds2000 * 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates 1st March 2000 Submission deadline 30th April 2000Notification of acceptance 23rd May 2000 Camera ready copy for participants proceedings due ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) * Reinhard Gotzhein (U. Kaiserslautern, Germany) * 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Evaluation and Publication of Submitted Papers Submitted manuscripts will be evaluated and selected for presentation in the conference. The proceedings of FMOODS '00 will be published by Kluwer, the publishers of IFIP events. The proceedings will be made available at the conference. Instructions to the Authors Authors are invited to submit full original research papers, up to 16 pages (including bibliography), 12 point, single spaced, including an informative abstract, names and affiliations of all authors, and a list of keywords facilitating the assignment of papers to referees. Submission Paper submissions will be electronic via the web. Papers must be submitted as postscript documents that are interpretable by Ghostscript. Details on the submission process are to be found at http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fmds2000. The package for electronic submission of papers will be available approximately one month before the submission deadline. ------------------------------------------------------------------------