********************************************************************* Call for Papers - ICTAC 2010 International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil 1-3 September, 2010 http://www.ictac.net/ictac2010 ********************************************************************** ********************************************************************** * News *************************************************************** ** ** Authors of a selection of the accepted papers will be invited to ** submit an extended version of their papers to a special issue of ** Elsevier's journal Theoretical Computer Science. * ** LNCS proceedings confirmed. * ********************************************************************** Background and Objectives ICTAC is an International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing created by the International Institute for Software Technology of the United Nations University (UNU-IIST). The aim of the colloquium is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to present research results, and exchange experience, ideas and solutions for their problems in theoretical aspects of computing. Beyond these scholarly goals, another main purpose of the conference is to promote cooperation in research and education between participants and their institutions, from developing and industrial countries, as in the mandate of the United Nations University. The previous six ICTAC events were held in Guiyang, China (2004), Hanoi, Vietnam (2005), Tunis, Tunisia (2006), Macau (2007), Istanbul, Turkey (2008) and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2009). ICTAC 2010 includes two special tracks: a track on Formal Approaches to Testing, chaired by Marie-Claude Gaudel, and a track on the Grand Challenge in Verified Software, chaired by Jim Woodcock. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: - automata theory and formal languages - principles and semantics of programming languages - logics and their applications - software architectures and their description languages - software specification, refinement, verification and testing, - model checking and theorem proving - formal techniques in software testing - models of object and component systems - coordination and feature interaction - integration of theories, formal methods and tools for engineering computing systems - service-oriented development - service-oriented architectures: models and development methods - document-driven development - models of concurrency, security, and mobility - theory of parallel, distributed, and grid computing - real-time, embedded and hybrid systems - type and category theory in computer science - case studies, theories, tools and experiments of verified systems - domain-specific modeling and technology: examples, frameworks and experience ICTAC 2010 will be held in Brazil, in the city of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte. It will be organized jointly with the 3rd edition of the Pernambuco School on Software Engineering, to be held in Recife, Pernambuco, on the the topic of Formal Component Based Development and Coordination. ICTAC 2010 will include tutorials and technical sessions. Sponsors and Organisation ICTAC 2010 will be organized jointly by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte and UNU-IIST. They are also sponsors of ICTAC 2010. Invited Speakers Paulo Borba (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil) Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft Research) 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. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Papers shall be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ictac2010. All queries should be sent to: ictac2010@iist.unu.edu. Important Dates Submission of abstracts: March 08th, 2010; Submission deadline: March 15th, 2010; Notification of results: April 30th, 2010; Final version: May 16th, 2010 Steering Committee John Fitzgerald, UK Martin Leucker, Germany Zhiming Liu (Chair), Macao Tobias Nipkow, Germany Augusto Sampaio, Brazil Natarajan Shankar, USA Jim Woodcock, UK Special Tracks Chairs Marie-Claude Gaudel, France Jim Woodcock, UK Program Committee Bernhard Aichernig, Austria Keijiro Araki, Japan Jonathan Bowen, UK Christiano Braga, Brazil Michael Butler, UK Andrew Butterfield, Ireland Ana Cavalcanti, UK (chair) Antonio Cerone, Macao Jim Davies, UK David Deharbe, Brazil (chair) John Fitzgerald, UK Wan Fokkink, Netherlands Pascal Fontaine, France Marcelo Frias, Argentina Lindsay Groves, New Zealand Michael Hansen, Denmark Robert Hierons, UK Monzoo Kim, South Korea Maciej Koutny, UK Pascale Le Gall, France Martin Leucker, Germany Zhiming Liu, Macao Patricia Machado, Brazil Marius Minea, Romania Ali Mili, USA Michael Mislove, USA Tobias Nipkow, Germany Jose Nuno Oliveira, Portugal Paritosh Pandya, India Alberto Pardo, Uruguay Anders P Ravn, Denmark Leila Ribeiro, Brazil Markus Roggenbach, UK Augusto Sampaio, Brazil Bernhard Schaetz, Germany Gerhard Schellhorn, Germany Emil Sekerinski, Canada Natarajan Shankar, USA Marjan Sirjani, Iran Jin Song Dong, Singapore Dang Van Hung, Vietnam Daniel Varro, Hungary Helmut Veith, Germany Ji Wang, China Martin Wirsing, Germany Burkhart Wolff, France Husnu Yenigun, Turkey Naijun Zhan, China Organising Committee David Deharbe, Brazil Anamaria Moreira, Brazil Bartira Rocha, Brazil Marcel Oliveira, Brazil [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]