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[pept:11] FME 2001: Call for Papers
FORMAL METHODS EUROPE
FME 2001
"Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity"
International Symposium and Tutorials
12-16 March 2001
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, Germany
(http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/top/fme2001)
Call for Submissions
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FME 2001 is the tenth in a series of symposia organised by Formal Methods
Europe, an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of,
and research on, formal methods for software development. These symposia
have been notably successful in bringing together a community of users,
researchers, and developers of precise mathematical methods for software
development.
The theme of FME 2001 is Formal Methods for Increasing Software Productivity.
This theme recognizes that formal methods have the potential to do more for
industrial software development than enhance software quality--they can also
increase productivity at many different points in the software life-cycle.
The symposium committee is particularly interested in papers on the use of
formal methods to increase productivity, for example on:
* Codifying domain knowledge
* Re-using components
* Automatically generating code and/or documentation
* Improving the efficiency of software testing
* Enhancing analysis techniques for validation and verification
* Exploiting commonalities within product families
* Improving the maintainability and modifiability of software
* Empirical studies of effects on productivity
SCOPE
The scope of the symposium, as always in its distinguished history, also
includes all other aspects of the use of formal methods, for development
of software in all application areas. The scope of the symposium covers
the entire range from fundamental theory of description and reasoning
to particulars of practice and experience.
In addition to presentations of submitted papers, the symposium will also
offer tutorials, workshops, invited speakers, and tool demonstrations.
PAPERS
The symposium committee solicits full-length papers in two broad categories:
1. Use of formal methods, including reports on industrial use, substantial
case studies, comparisons among methods, education, and technology transfer.
2. Development of formal methods, including motivating factors, theoretical
foundations, extensions, manual procedures, and tool support.
Authors are requested to mention the category (1 or 2) of their papers when
they submit.
Full papers should be submitted in Postscript or PDF format by E-mail to reach
fme2001sub@di.uminho.pt by 25th August, 2000.
There are no fixed page limits on submissions but authors are warned that
papers exceeding twenty A4 pages will be regarded as long, and that the
content must justify the length.
TUTORIALS
Tutorials will be held on 12-13th March. Each tutorial will last one-half or
one day. Proposals for tutorials are welcome, and should be directed to
the programme chairs.
WORKSHOPS
Proposals for parallel workshops are welcome, and should be directed to
the programme chairs.
TOOL DEMONSTRATIONS
Tool demonstrations will take place during the symposium, with the
opportunity for presentations to be made about each tool. Proposals for
tool demonstrations are welcome and should be made to the organising chairs,
with whom provision of necessary computing facilities should be discussed.
PEOPLE
Organising Co-Chairs
Stefan Jaehnichen
Wolfgang Reisig
Organising Committee
BWO Marketing Service
Birgit Heene
Adrianna Foremniak
Axel Martens
Programme Co-Chairs
Jose Oliveira, Dept. Informatica, Universidade do Minho,
Campus de Gualtar, 4700-320 Braga, Portugal
Tel: +351 253 604 470
E-mail: jno@di.uminho.pt
Pamela Zave, AT&T Laboratories, 180 Park Avenue, Florham Park,
NJ 07932, USA
Tel: +1 973 360 8676
E-mail: pamela@research.att.com
Programme Committee
Eerke Boiten University of Kent at Canterbury
Rick Butler NASA Langley Research Center
Lars-Henrik Eriksson Industrilogik L4i AB
John Fitzgerald Centre for Software Reliability, Newcastle, UK
Peter Gorm Larsen IFAD
Yves Ledru Universite Joseph Fourier - Grenoble
Dominique Mery Universite Henri Poincare - Nancy
Jayadev Misra University of Texas at Austin
Richard Moore United Nations University IIST
Friederike Nickl F.A.S.T. GmbH
Tobias Nipkow Technische Universitaet Muenchen
Jose Oliveira (co-chair) Universidade do Minho
Paritosh Pandya TIFR Mumbai, India
Nico Plat Cap Gemini
Amir Pnueli Weizmann Institute
Augusto Sampaio Universidade Federal de Pernambuco
Steve Schneider Royal Holloway, University of London
Jim Woodcock Oxford University
Pamela Zave (co-chair) AT&T Laboratories
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for submission of papers,
tutorial proposals, and workshop
proposals: 25th August, 2000
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 17th November, 2000
Camera ready final version of papers due: 5th January, 2001