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FTSCS 2016
5th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems
Tokyo, November 14/15, 2016 (satellite workshop of ICFEM 2016)
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*** Deadline extension: Final submission deadline September 11 ***
*** Science of Computer Programming special issue *** *** Springer CCIS proceedings ***
Aims and Scope:
There is an increasing demand for using formal methods to validate and verify safety-critical systems in fields such as power generation and distribution, avionics, automotive systems, and medical systems. In particular, newer standards, such as DO-178C (avionics), ISO 26262 (automotive systems), IEC 62304 (medical devices), and CENELEC EN 50128 (railway systems), emphasize the need for formal methods and model-based development, thereby speeding up the adaptation of such methods in industry.
The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers who are interested in the application of formal and semi-formal methods to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems. FTSCS strives to promote research and development of formal methods and tools for industrial applications, and is particularly interested in industrial applications of formal methods.
Specific topics include, but are not limited to:
* case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for analyzing safety-critical systems, including avionics, automotive, medical, railway, and other kinds of safety-critical and QoS-critical systems * methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, etc., of complex safety/QoS-critical systems * analysis methods that address the limitations of formal methods in industry (usability, scalability, etc.) * formal analysis support for modeling languages used in industry, such as AADL, Ptolemy, SysML, SCADE, Modelica, etc. * code generation from validated models.
The workshop will provide a platform for discussions and the exchange of innovative ideas, so submissions on work in progress are encouraged.
Submission:
We solicit submissions reporting on:
A- original research contributions (15 pages max, LNCS format); B- applications and experiences (15 pages max, LNCS format); C- surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (15 pages max, LNCS); D- tool papers (5 pages max, LNCS format); E- position papers and work in progress (5 pages max, LNCS format)
related to the topics mentioned above.
All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftscs2016. The final version of the paper must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to the LNCS format available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.
Publication:
All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FTSCS 2016. Accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published as a volume in Springer's CCIS series.
The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: September 4, 2016; extended to September 11, 2016 Notification of acceptance: October 7, 2016 Workshop: November 14/15, 2016
Venue:
Tokyo, Japan
Program chairs:
Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan and KTH, Sweden Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway
Program committee:
Etienne Andre University Paris 13, France Toshiaki Aoki JAIST, Japan Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan and KTH, Sweden Kyungmin Bae Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea Eun-Hye Choi AIST, Japan Alessandro Fantechi University of Florence and ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Bernd Fischer Stellenbosch University, South Africa Osman Hasan National University of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan Klaus Havelund NASA JPL, USA Jerome Hugues Institute for Space and Aeronautics Engineering, France Marieke Huisman University of Twente, The Netherlands Ralf Huuck Synopsys, Australia Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan Takashi Kitamura AIST, Japan Alexander Knapp Augsburg University, Germany Thierry Lecomte ClearSy System Engineering, France Yang Liu Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Robi Malik University of Waikato, New Zealand Frederic Mallet INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Roberto Nardone University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Vivek Nigam Federal University of ParaÃba, Brazil Thomas Noll RWTH Aachen University, Germany Kazuhiro Ogata JAIST, Japan Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway Charles Pecheur Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium Markus Roggenbach Swansea University, UK Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich, Switzerland Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University, Austria Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania, USA Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada Carolyn Talcott SRI International, USA Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya Osaka University, Japan Andras Voros Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Chen-Wei Wang State University of New York (SUNY), Korea Alan Wassyng McMaster University, Canada Michael Whalen University of Minnesota, USA Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China