---------------------------------------------------------------------- Final Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ICTAC 2006 3rd International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing Gammarth/Tunis, Tunisia, 20-24 November 2006 http://www.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC2006 ********************************************************************** IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: 8 May, 2006 (extended) Acceptance notification: 14 July, 2006 Final version due: 1 September, 2006 ********************************************************************** Proceedings will be published by Springer in the series LNCS ********************************************************************** 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 two ICTAC events were held in 2004, in Guiyang, China, and in 2005, in Hanoi, Vietnam. 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, and verification * model checking and theorem proving * formal techniques in software testing * models of object and component systems * coordination and feature interaction * integration of formal and engineering methods * service-oriented development * document-driven development * models of concurrency, security, and mobility * theory of parallel, distributed, and internet-based (grid) computing * real-time and embedded systems * type and category theory in computer science ICTAC 2006 will have a technical program for five days including two days for tutorials and three days for a conference. There will also be a training school in the preceding week. INVITED SPEAKERS * Zohar Manna, USA * Tobias Nipkow, Germany * Mike Reed, Macao * Jim Woodcock, UK SPONSORS AND ORGANISATION ICTAC 2006 will be organised jointly between the University Tunis El Manar, UNU-IIST and the University of York. They are also sponsors of ICTAC 2006. 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). Authors must submit their papers in pdf format to the website http://confman.iist.unu.edu/ICTAC2006/REG-paper/. All queries should be sent to: [log in to unmask] All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the series LNCS. Authors of a selection of the accepted papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a special issue of Formal Aspects of Computing. ADVISORY COMMITTEE Dines Bjorner, Denmark Manfred Broy, Germany Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, UK Jifeng He, China Shaoying Liu, Japan Zhiming Liu, Macao Zohar Manna, USA Tobias Nipkow, Germany Mike Reed, Macao Jim Woodcock, UK ORGANISING COMMITTEE Kamel Barkaoui, France Rahma Ben Ayed, Tunisia (finance co-chair) Mohamed Bettaz, Jordan (conference co-chair) Karim Djouani, France (publicity co-chair) Chris George, Macao (publicity co-chair) Dang Van Hung, Macao (finance co-chair) Ali Mili, USA (conference co-chair) Zaidi Sahnoun, Algeria PROGRAM COMMITTEE Marc Aiguier, France Eric Badouel, France Kamel Barkaoui, France (co-chair) Jose Barros, Portugal Hubert Baumeister, Germany Samir Ben Ahmed, Tunisia Rahma Ben Ayed, Tunisia Mohamed Bettaz, Jordan Michel Bidoit, France Jonathan Bowen, UK Khaled Bsaies, Tunisia Cristian Calude, New Zealand Ana Cavalcanti, UK (co-chair) Antonio Cerone, Macao (co-chair) Jessica Chen, Canada Yifeng Chen, UK Jim Davies, UK Mourad Debbabi, Canada David Deharbe, Brazil Jin Song Dong, Singapore Wan Fokkink, Netherlands Marcelo Frias, Argentina Maurizio Gabbrielli, Italy Valentin Goranko, South Africa Susanne Graf, France Lindsay Groves, New Zealand Michael R. Hansen, Denmark Thomas Henzinger, Switzerland Dang Van Hung, China Purush Iyer, USA Petr Jancar, Czech Republic Takuya Katayama, Japan Maciej Koutny, UK Xuandong Li, China Xinxin Liu, China Antonia Lopes, Portugal Andrea Maggiolo-Schettini, Italy Antoni Mazurkiewicz, Poland Mohamed Mezguiche, Algeria Ali Mili, USA Roland Mittermeir, Austria Carroll Morgan, Australia Alberto Pardo, Uruguay Jean-Eric Pin, France R. Ramanujam, India Anders Ravn, Denmark Wolfgang Reif, Germany Ingrid Rewitzky, South Africa Mark Ryan, UK Augusto Sampaio, Brazil Bernhard Schaetz, Germany Emil Sekerinski, Canada Carolyn Talcott, USA Tayssir Touili, France Do Long Van, Vietnam Martin Wirsing, Germany Hongjun Zheng, USA