ICFEM2018: 20th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2018)
Gold Coast, Australia, November 12-16, 2018
Web site: http://www.formal-analysis.com/icfem/2018/
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2018
Submission due: May 21, 2018 (extended)
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 the 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.
List of Topics
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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 and theorem proving
+ 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
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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 (including references) in the Springer's LNCS format. Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website. Submissions should be made through the ICFEM 2018 submission page, handled by the EasyChair conference management system.
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2018
Important Dates
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+ Full Paper Submissions Due: 21 May 2018 (extended)
+ Workshop/Tutorial Proposals Due: 25 March 2018
+ Acceptance/Rejection Notification: 29 June 2018
+ Camera-ready Due: 29 July 2018
Organizing Committee
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General Co-Chair
Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia
Program Co-Chairs
Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Meng Sun, Peking University, China
Workshop Chair
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Tutorial Chair
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Sponsorship Chair
Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia
Web Chair
Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia
Program Committee
Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria
Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France
Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands
Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Franck Cassez, Macquarie University, Australia
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom
Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China
Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China
Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia
Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China
Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Xudong He, Florida International University, United States
Zhenjiang Hu, National Institute of Informatics (NII), Japan
Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Gerwin Klein, University of New South Wales, Australia
Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France
Michael Leuschel, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China
Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China
Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan
Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia
Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia
Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France
Mohammad Mousavi, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Geguang Pu, East China Normal University, China
Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy
Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Graeme Smith, The University of Queensland, Australia
Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Meng Sun, Peking University, China
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Cong Tian, Xidian University, China
Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands
Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom
Zijiang Yang, Western Michigan University, United States
Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Invited Speakers
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+ Sir Tony Hoare (C. A. R. Hoare):
Sir Tony Hoare is a British computer scientist. He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness in 1969, and the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes in 1985. He received the Turing Prize and the Kyoto Prize for his fundamental contributions to the definition and design of programming languages in 1980 and 2000 respectively. Tony Hoare became a professor at Oxford University in 1977 where he is now an Emeritus Professor. Hoare was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society as well as a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. A recent personal research goal has been the unification of a diverse range of theories applying to different programming languages, paradigms, and implementation technologies. Tony has been and continue to be an inspiration to many researchers.
+ Professor David Basin:
David Basin is a full professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Cornell University in 1989 and his Habilitation in Computer Science from the University of Saarbrucken in 1996. From 1997–2002 he held the chair of Software Engineering at the University of Freiburg in Germany. His research areas are Information Security and Software Engineering. He is the founding director of the ZISC, the Zurich Information Security Center, which he led from 2003-2011. He is Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security and of Springer-Verlag's book series on Information Security and Cryptography. He serves on various management and scientific advisory boards, co-founded three security companies, and has consulted extensively for IT companies and government organizations.
+ Professor Ian Hayes:
Ian Hayes is the head of the Systems and Software Engineering Research Group and the Chair of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at The University of Queensland. Ian's research interests are in formal methods for software development, particularly for concurrent and real-time systems.
Workshops and Tutorials
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Workshop or tutorial proposals should be directly sent to the Workshop/Tutorial Chairs 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.
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Contact
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All questions should be directed to:
Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems (IIIS), Griffith University
Phone: +61 7 3735 3757
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