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AISB event Bulletin Item
CALL FOR PAPERS: FORMAL METHODS, 26-30 Sep 2011, BRAZIL
14th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF 2011), Sao Paulo, Brazil *** Proceedings will be published in LNCS/Springer ***
CALL FOR PAPERS
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SBMF 2011 is the fourteenth of a series of events devoted to the development, dissemination and
use of formal methods for the construction of high-quality computational systems. It is now a
well-established event, with an international reputation.
Keynote speakers will be
* Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France)
* John Harrison (Intel Corporation, USA)
The symposium will be part of a larger event,
* CBSoft, the Brazilian Conference on Software:
* Theory and Practice
* http://www.each.usp.br/cbsoft2011,
including as well as SBMF three other symposia:
* XXV Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering (SBES)
* XV Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages (SBLP)
* V Brazilian Symposium on Components, Software Architecture
and Software Reuse (SBCARS).
CBSoft will be held in Sao Paulo, an important city in research and development in both academic
and industrial areas. Sao Paulo offers great possibilities for cultural, artistic and gastronomic
tourism. Moreover it is a major hub, providing easy access to all other parts of Brazil and South
America.
The aim of SBMF is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of high-quality papers,
from researchers with a broad range of interests in formal methods, on recent developments in this
field. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Well-founded specification and design languages;
- Formal aspects of popular languages and methodologies;
- Logics and semantics of programming- and specification languages;
- Reusable domain theories;
- Type systems and category theory in computer science;
- Computational complexity of methods and models;
- Computational models;
- Rewriting systems;
- Formal methods integration;
- Formal methods for software/hardware development;
- Formal methods applied to model-driven engineering;
- Code generation;
- Formal design methods;
- Specification and modeling;
- Abstraction, modularization and refinement techniques;
- Program and test synthesis;
- Techniques for correctness by construction;
- Formal methods and models for objects, aspects
and component systems;
- Formal methods and models for real-time, hybrid and
critical systems;
- Formal methods and models for service-oriented systems;
- Models of concurrency, security and mobility;
- Model checking;
- Theorem proving;
- Static analysis;
- Formal techniques for software testing;
- Software certification;
- Formal techniques for software inspection.
- Teaching of, for and with formal methods;
- Experience reports on the use of formal methods;
- Industrial case studies;
- Tools supporting the formal development of computational systems;
- Development methodologies with formal foundations;
- Software evolution based on formal methods.
Papers with a strong emphasis on Formal Methods, whether practical or theoretical, are invited for
submission. They should present unpublished and original work that has a clear contribution to the
state of the art on the theory and practice of formal methods. They should not be simultaneously submitted elsewhere.
Papers will be judged on the basis of originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation
quality. They should be written in English. There are two types of submissions:
* Full papers: (max. 16 pages in LNCS format) should contain
theory- or application-oriented results which must be original,
significant, and sound; they will undergo a full reviewing
process. Papers from industry should emphasize practical application of
formal methods and/or report open challenges. The proceedings
will be published in LNCS/Springer.
* Short papers: (max. 6 pages in LNCS format) should describe
recent research activities, practical experience, and
preliminary results that are worth discussing. If accepted,
they will be published as a Technical Report of University of
Sao Paulo (www.usp.br) with an ISBN number available online.
Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered to the symposium by the time the
camera-ready copy is submitted; the author is also expected to attend the symposium and present
the paper.
Papers can be submitted via the following link:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbmf2011
Questions? Contact at sbmf2011@easychair.org
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(NEW) IMPORTANT DATES
05/06/2011: Full Paper Abstract Submission Deadline (extended)
12/06/2011: Full Paper Submission Deadline (extended)
25/07/2011: Full Paper Acceptance Notification
06/08/2011: Full Paper Camera-ready Version
01/08/2011: Short Paper Submission Deadline
21/08/2011: Short Paper Acceptance Notification
28/08/2011: Short Paper Camera-ready Version
--- Program Committee Chairs
Adenilso Simao ICMC-USP, Brasil
Carroll Morgan UNSW, Australia
--- Steering Committee
Adenilso Simao ICMC-USP
Carroll Morgan UNSW, Australia
David Naumann Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Jim Davies University of Oxford, UK (Co-chair)
Jim Woodcock University of York, UK
Leila Silva UFS
Marcel Oliveira UFRN (Co-chair)
Patricia Machado UFCG
Rohit Gheyi UFCG
--- Program Committee
Aline Andrade (UFBA, Brazil)
David Aspinall (University of Edinburgh, UK) Luis Barbosa (Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Michael
Butler (University of Southampton, UK) Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) Ana
Cavalcanti (University of York, UK) Marcio Cornelio (UFPE, Brazil) Andrea Corradini (Universita'
di Pisa, Italy) Jim Davies (University of Oxford, UK) David Deharbe (UFRN, Brazil) Ewen Denney
(RIACS/NASA, USA) Clare Dixon (University of Liverpool, UK) Jorge Figueiredo (UFCG, Brazil) Rohit
Gheyi (UFCG, Brazil) Rolf Hennicker (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany) Juliano
Iyoda (UFPE, Brazil) Gerald Luettgen (University of Bamberg, Germany) Patricia Machado (UFCG,
Brazil) Ana Melo (USP, Brazil) Stephan Merz (INRIA Lorraine, France) Anamaria Moreira (UFRN, Brazil)
Alvaro Moreira (UFRGS, Brazil) Arnaldo Moura (UNICAMP, Brazil) Alexandre Mota (UFPE, Brazil) David
Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) Daltro Nunes (UFRGS, Brazil) Jose Oliveira
(Universidade do Minho, Portugal) Marcel Oliveira (UFRN, Brazil) Alberto Pardo (Universidad de la
Republica, Uruguay) Alexandre Petrenko (CRIM, Canada) Leila Ribeiro (UFRGS, Brazil) Augusto
Sampaio (UFPE, Brazil) Leila Silva (UFS, Brazil) Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK)
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