Call for Papers -------------------------------- REMO2V'2006 : International Workshop on Regulations Modelling and their Validation & Verification http://www.univ-paris12.fr/lacl/REMO2V/ to be held in conjunction with the 18th Conference on Advanced Information System Engineering (CAiSE'06) : http://www.tudor.lu/caise06 6 June 2006. Luxembourg OBJECTIVES Many human activities are controlled by regulations and standards. These are usually intended to ensure some safety or security properties, or may simply be used to enforce a fair behaviour from a set of interacting stakeholders. In many cases, it is essential to guarantee the quality of these natural language documents. This is where modelling techniques can help! The objectives of the workshop are mainly to share experience on methods used to model, validate and verify (information) systems based on strong existing regulations. Besides usual areas, such as air, maritime or railway transport, it must also be noticed that regulations apply to a large variety of fields: finance, health, e-business, e-learning, etc. A common point is the fact that behind (information) systems there is no need for a computerised implementation. The workshop aims to promote techniques, basically devoted to computer science, which can be fruitfully applied to very different fields of regulations. A second important goal of the workshop should be the establishment of an industrial and academic community interested by this new topic. It is now undeniable that the topic will grow in the coming years as safety and security are increasingly enforced by complex regulations (see for example the next 7th Framework Programme of the European Union about Security). TOPICS Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Conceptual models of regulations using formal and/or graphical representations. * Validation and test of regulation models with certification experts. * Verification of regulation models, including the detection of inconsistencies, identification of missing rules... * Elaboration of attack scenarios from regulation models. * Methodologies for the translation of regulations into conceptual models. * Application studies of the above points on regulations for different domains (transport, finance, health, e-business, e-learning, ...). TARGETED AUDIENCE The background of the attendees should be either in pure computer science with good knowledge on validation & verification techniques and modelling, or in business activities related to regulations (European Commission, governmental and non governmental authorities, legal institution related to finance, health, e-business, etc.). SUBMISSION Contributions can be of two types: full papers and position papers. Full papers are limited to 5 pages and should be original work describing preliminary or completed results. Position papers are extended abstracts of 2 pages and may present work in progress, experience reports or problem statements. All submissions should include: author's name(s), affiliation, mailing address, phone and fax number and email address. Only electronic submissions are accepted and papers should be submitted in pdf format to [log in to unmask] and [log in to unmask] Submissions should conform to Springer's LNCS format. Information about Springer LNCS format can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. IMPORTANT DATES Papers due: February 27, 2006 Author notification: March 23, 2006 Camera ready copies: April 10, 2006 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS * Régine LALEAU, University Paris 12, France * Michel LEMOINE, Onera Toulouse, France PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Robert DARIMONT, Cediti, Belgium * Régine LALEAU, University Paris 12, France * Yves LEDRU, University Grenoble 1, France * Jean-Henry MORIN, University of Genève, Switzerland * André RIFAUT, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg * Andreas SPECK, University of Jena, Germany * Susan STEPNEY, University of York, UK * Nicolas SUAREZ, Isdefe, Spain