From Holger.Giese at hpi.uni-potsdam.de Tue Sep 3 10:33:37 2013 From: Holger.Giese at hpi.uni-potsdam.de (Giese, Holger) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 08:33:37 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] Open PosDoc and PhD positions at the HPI (Prof. Giese) Message-ID: <5DB80A51-41A5-4C02-849C-6B453289E3ED@hpi.uni-potsdam.de> my group on System Analysis and Modeling at the Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering (HPI) of the University of Potsdam in Germany near Berlin has currently the following open positions: ? PostDoc QUANTUM Project (f/m) http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/stellen/offene_stellen/postdoc_quantum.html?L=1 ? Ph.D. Student QUANTUM Project (f/m) http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/stellen/offene_stellen/phd_student_quantum.html?L=1 where QUANTUM stands for quantitative analysis of service-oriented real-time systems with structure dynamics (http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/giese/projects/quantum.html?L=1). For these two posts expertise in any of the the following topics would be helpful: ? Modeling and formal analysis of structure dynamics ? Modeling and formal analysis of timed behavior ? Modeling and formal analysis of probabilistic behavior ? Modeling and formal analysis of service-oriented systems ? Ph.D. Students on MDE (f/m) http://www.hpi.uni-potsdam.de/hpi/stellen/offene_stellen/phd_students_on_mde.html?L=1 for any of the following topics: ? Model-driven development of embedded real-time systems ? Model-driven development of self-adaptive systems ? Efficient model transformations and synchronization ? Traceability for agile and innovative projects ? Management of models and model operations If you are interested, please have a look at the more detailed descriptions for the offered positions and contact me if you have any additional questions concerning the offered positions. Best regards, Holger Giese _______________________________________ Prof. Dr. Holger Giese System Analysis and Modeling Group Hasso-Plattner-Institut Prof-Dr-Helmert-Str. 2-3 14482 Potsdam Germany _______________________________________ Room A-2.5 Tel ++49 331 5509 366 Fax ++49 331 5509 309 Email holger.giese at hpi.uni-potsdam.de _______________________________________ Office ++49 331 5509-314 _______________________________________ Design IT. Create Knowledge. _______________________________________ Hasso-Plattner-Institut f?r Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH, Potsdam Amtsgericht Potsdam, HRB 12184 Gesch?ftsf?hrung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel From haifengguo at unomaha.edu Tue Sep 3 20:13:31 2013 From: haifengguo at unomaha.edu (Haifeng Guo) Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 18:13:31 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] Call for FLoc14/ICLP Workshop proposals Message-ID: <541434cc4e6c481c9abb5c06cea91401@BY2PR07MB217.namprd07.prod.outlook.com> (Apologies for cross postings) Dear all, Please find attached a call for workshop proposals in FLoC14, including ICLP's workshops which I chair. FLoC14/ICLP14 will be held in Vienna on July, 2014. Workshops collocated with ICLP14 are one of the best venues for the presentation and discussion of preliminary work, novel ideas, and new open problems to a wide and interested audience. Collocated workshops also provide an opportunity for presenting specialized topics and opportunities for intensive discussions and project collaboration. The topics of the workshops collocated with ICLP 2014 may cover any area related to logic programming (e.g., theory, systems, environments, software-engineering aspects, extensions, alternative paradigms, applications), including cross-disciplinary areas. >>> You are encouraged to propose any ICLP-related workshop or tutorials if there is evidence that this will be in favor of a stronger ICLP event. Even if there is a perception that some workshop may not have a number of enough attendants, the ICLP14 organizers would still welcome all workshop proposals. Please consider putting together a proposal, and circulating it as among potentially interested colleagues. The deadline is September 30, 2013. Best regards, Hai-Feng Guo >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> THE SIXTH FEDERATED LOGIC CONFERENCE (FLoC 2014) Part of VIENNA SUMMER OF LOGIC (VSL 2014) July 2014, Vienna, Austria SECOND CALL FOR WORKSHOPS The Sixth Federated Logic Conference (FLoC 2014) will be part of the Vienna Summer of Logic (VSL), the largest logic event in history, with over 2000 expected participants. FLoC 2014 will host eight conferences and many workshops. Each workshop will be affiliated with at least one of the eight conferences. 26th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) Workshop Chair: Martina Seidl http://fmv.jku.at/seidl/ 27th IEEE Computer Security Foundations Symposium (CSF) Workshop Chair: Luca Vigano http://profs.sci.univr.it/~vigano/ 30th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) Workshop Chair: Haifeng Guo http://faculty.ist.unomaha.edu/hguo/ 7th International Joint Conference on Automated Reasoning (IJCAR) Workshop Chair: Matthias Horbach http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/~horbach/ 5th Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP) Workshop Chair: David Pichardie http://www.irisa.fr/celtique/pichardie/ Joint meeting of the 23rd EACSL Annual Conference on Computer Science Logic (CSL) and the 29th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS) Workshop Chair: Georg Moser http://cl-informatik.uibk.ac.at/users/georg/ 25th International Conference on Rewriting Techniques and Applications (RTA) joined with the 12th International Conference on Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications (TLCA) Workshop Chair: Aleksy Schubert http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~alx/ 17th International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT) Workshop Chair: Ines Lynce http://sat.inesc-id.pt/~ines/ SUBMISSION OF WORKSHOP PROPOSALS Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops on topics in the field of computer science, related to logic in the broad sense. Each workshop proposal must indicate at least one conference to be affiliated with, and among those exactly one primary hosting conference. It is suggested that prospective workshop organizers contact the relevant conference Workshop Chair(s) before submitting a proposal. Proposals should be submitted electronically to EasyChair at the following address: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=floc14cfw Proposals should consist of two parts. First, a short scientific justification of the proposed topic, its significance, and the particular benefits of the workshop to the community, as well as a list of previous or related workshops (if relevant). A second, organizational part should include: * contact information of the workshop organizers * proposed primary hosting conference (and possibly other affiliated conference(s)) * estimate of the audience size * proposed format and agenda (for example, paper presentations, tutorials, demo sessions, etc.) * potential invited speakers * procedures for selecting papers and participants * plans for dissemination, if any (for example, special issues of journals) * duration (which may vary from one day to two days) and preferred period The FLoC Organizing Committee will determine the final list of accepted workshops based on the recommendations from the Workshop Chairs of the hosting conferences and subject to the availability of space and facilities. Further information can be found at the FLoC 2014 Workshop Guide http://vsl2014.at/floc-ws/ IMPORTANT DATES Submission of workshop proposals: by September 30, 2013 Notification: by November, 2013 Pre-FLoC workshops: Saturday & Sunday, July 12-13 Mid-FLoC workshops: Thursday & Friday, July 17-18 Post-FLoC workshops: Wednesday & Thursday, July 23-24 CONTACT INFORMATION Questions regarding workshop proposals should be sent to the workshop chairs of conferences that are supposed to host the workshop (see above). General questions should be sent to floc14cfw at easychair.org Please consult the FLoC 2014 Workshop Guide http://vsl2014.at/floc-ws/ FLoC 2014 WORKSHOP CHAIR Stefan Szeider http://www.szeider.net Vienna University of Technology From neha.s.rungta at nasa.gov Fri Sep 6 05:24:05 2013 From: neha.s.rungta at nasa.gov (Rungta, Neha S. (ARC-TI)[Stinger Ghaffarian Technologies Inc. (SGT Inc.)]) Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 03:24:05 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] [fm-announcements] CFP: Formal Verification & Modeling in Human-Machine Systems Message-ID: ======================================================== Formal Verification & Modeling in Human-Machine Systems AAAI 2014 Spring Symposium (FVHMS 2014) http://faculty.cs.byu.edu/~mike/mikeg/WORKSHOP/ ======================================================== Overview: The goal of the workshop is to bring together the fields of formal verification, cognitive modeling, and task analysis to study the design and verification of real human-machine systems. Recent papers in each of these communities discuss modeling challenges and the application of basic formal verification in human-machine interaction; however, there is little communication between researchers in these different areas and there are many open questions that require cross-disciplinary collaboration. The workshop is to bring together experts from many communities in an environment where it is possible to explore key research areas, common solutions, near-term research problems, and advantages in combining the best of the different communities. Submissions: We solicit papers describing original work either in-progress or finished, position papers or extended abstracts describing research or positions. Papers should follow the AAAI formatting, with a page-limit of 6 pages. Proceedings of the symposium will be published by AAAI as a CD, distributed at the symposium. Selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their contributions for review in a follow-on special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems dedicated to the same topic. Topics of Interest: * What model classes, methodologies, and constructs are appropriate for modeling human and machine activities in a way that is amenable to formal verification? Examples include - Programming languages - State Machines - Activity models (e.g. Brahms) - Cognitive models (SOAR, ACT-R, DIARC, etc.) - Task analyses-based models (GDTA, CWA, etc.) - Probabilistic models - Behavioral game theory * What levels of abstraction are appropriate for such modeling, and what information is lost in using abstraction? * What are the contexts, if any, for which the trade offs between authority between humans, autonomy, and model-based reasoning can be specified? * What is the impact on design for including explicit (meta-) reasoning models in the human-machine interaction loop? * What types of model-checkers are appropriate, and what other lessons from formal verification apply to human-machine systems? * What are the ethical considerations of using verified models to allocate responsibility and authority between humans and machines? * What organizational structures are appropriate for human-machine collaborative work? - Master-slave - Teammates - Principal-agent * How can dynamic models evolve in the presence of learning agents, both human and machine, and in the presence of inaccurate mental models. Important Dates: Oct 18, 2013: Submission deadline Dec 10, 2013: Notification of acceptance/rejection Jan 10, 2014: Camera-ready papers due Mar 1, 2014: Registration deadline March 24-26, 2014: Symposium Organizers: Michael Goodrich, Brigham Young University, USA Eric Mercer, Brigham Young University, USA Neha Rungta, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Ellen Bass, Drexel University, USA Invited Speakers: Amy Pritchett, Georgia Tech, USA Philippe Palanque, IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, France Christian Lebiere, CMU, USA --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From Jeremy.Gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk Thu Sep 5 15:55:58 2013 From: Jeremy.Gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk (Jeremy.Gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk) Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:55:58 +0100 Subject: [fg-arc] Oberwolfach Seminar on Mathematics for Scientific Programming Message-ID: <201309051355.r85DtwCE032323@linux2.cs.ox.ac.uk> Call for Participation OBERWOLFACH SEMINAR ON MATHEMATICS FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATION Mathematisches Forschunginstitut Oberwolfach 24th to 30th November 2013 http://www.mfo.de/occasion/1348a MOTIVATION Computational science today depends crucially on simulations, which are typically based on algorithms that have a sound mathematical justification. For example, an iterative procedure such as Newton's method is motivated by appealing to the properties of twice continuously differentiable functions and their Taylor expansion, which also yield convergence conditions and approximation estimates. These algorithms are then implemented on a computer, using a programming language such as Fortran or C++. Often, the implementation will introduce new computational steps and otherwise modify the structure of the mathematical algorithm - for handling or reducing round-off errors, enabling more efficient memory access, exploiting parallelization, and so on. As a result, the final implementation usually looks very different from the mathematical algorithm, and the justification given for the latter does not directly extend to the former. But if we are to ensure the correctness of simulations, we need mathematical certainty for both. We aim to bring to the scientific programming community mathematical techniques that allow us to achieve the transition from mathematical algorithm to efficient implementation in a principled manner, with each step motivated by the application of a mathematical theorem. The intended participants are students and researchers in computational science (including areas such as engineering, biology, and economics), and any scientists dissatisfied with state of the art in transforming mathematics into code. They will be equipped subsequently to make a significant contribution to increasing the correctness of the simulations that play such an important role in current scientific activity. CONTENT This rigorous approach to programming is most easily presented in the framework of functional programming: program calculation can be reduced to straightforward equational reasoning, provided that all program variables are immutable. Accordingly, we will introduce the basic syntax and ideas using Haskell, currently the one of the most successful functional programming languages. The emphasis is not on functional programming as such, and even less so on a specific language such as Haskell; but rather, on the mathematics behind program development, which can then be transferred to other contexts, such as imperative programming, or parallel programming. This mathematical foundation lies in category theory, which unifies what could otherwise appear as a large collection of "bite-sized" theorems for program development, too many for any developer to remember and use efficiently. Category theory is a broad subject: we will limit ourselves to what is essential as a framework for datatypes and programs (functors, universal properties, algebras, monads). The many examples, such as fusion (loop elimination), optimal bracketing (important for non-associative operations such as those on floating-point numbers), or parallel programming skeletons (such as Google's MapReduce), will be readily understandable and relevant to scientific computing practitioners. One of the most effective ways to counter floating-point errors and to obtain validated results is to use interval analysis, which however requires more complex data structures and algorithms than is common in other areas of scientific computation. Extending a function on real or floating-point numbers to one on intervals is a matter of symbolic computation, similar to the symbolic differentiation or integration that is performed by tools such as Mathematica. The problem of obtaining the best extension is complicated by the fact that some familiar properties (such as that x-x=0 for any x, and distributivity of multiplication over addition) do not apply to intervals, and is a good source of examples for calculational programming. Finally, we will present a larger application, a generic program for inter-temporal optimization with dynamic programming. This kind of problem is ubiquitous in economic modeling, and hence in many integrated assessment models, such as those aiming to compute costs of climate change. It has both algebraic aspects (the organization of the computation for backward induction), which can be tackled with the categorical methods presented, and numerical ones (the local optimization techniques), where interval analysis can be used. The Seminar is organized by: * Paul Flondor, Professor of Mathematics at Politehnica University Bucharest (pflondor at yahoo.co.uk) * Jeremy Gibbons, Professor of Computing at the University of Oxford (jeremy.gibbons at cs.ox.ac.uk) * Cezar Ionescu, researcher at Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (ionescu at pik-potsdam.de) HOW TO APPLY Applications to participate should include * full name and address, including e-mail address * short CV, present position, university * name of supervisor of PhD thesis * a short summary of previous work and interest and should be sent preferably by e-mail (pdf files) to: Prof. Dr. Dietmar Kr?ner Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Schwarzwaldstr. 9-11 77709 Oberwolfach-Walke Germany seminars at mfo.de The deadline for applications is 15th September, and the number of participants is restricted to 25. The Institute covers accommodation and food; thanks to support from the Carl Friedrich von Siemens Foundation, some contribution may also be made towards travel expenses. For more information, contact the organizers or see the Institute's webpage: http://www.mfo.de/scientific-programme/meetings/oberwolfach-seminars From kapova at ipd.uka.de Sun Sep 8 08:59:54 2013 From: kapova at ipd.uka.de (Lucia Happe) Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2013 08:59:54 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] FESCA@ETAPS 2014: CfP for 11th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures, April 12th, 2014, Grenoble, France Message-ID: *** Please accept our apologies should you receive multiple copies of this call from different lists. *** INVITATION: ================= Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to FESCA 2014. ================= Call for Papers - FESCA 2014 - 11th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures Satellite event of ETAPS April 12th, 2014, Grenoble, France http://fesca.ipd.kit.edu/fesca2014/ WORKSHOP AIM In recent years, the growing importance of functional correctness and the increased relevance of system quality properties (e.g. performance, reliability, security) have stimulated the emergence of analytical and modelling techniques for the design and development of software systems. With the increasing complexity of today's software systems, FESCA aims at addressing two research questions: (1) what role the software architecture can play in systematic addressing of the analytical and modelling challenges, and (2) how formal and semi-formal techniques can be applied effectively to make the issues easier to address automatically, with lower human intervention. TOPICS We encourage submissions on (semi-)formal techniques and their application that aid analysis, design and implementation of software applications, including the techniques in the realm of Model-Driven Development. In this context, the topics include (but are not limited to): * Modelling - Modelling formalisms; - Models, metamodels and model transformations; * Correctness checking - Temporal properties and their formal verification; - Interface compliance and contractual use of components; * Correctness of models, metamodels and model transformations * Analysis and prediction of quality attributes - Formal prediction and analysis; - Static and dynamic analysis; - Instrumentation and monitoring approaches; * Industrial case studies and experience reports. Besides general software systems, FESCA is interested in methods focusing on a specific application domain, such as: * Cloud environment * Mobile and embedded systems * Information systems * Hardware infrastructures We encourage not only mature research results, submissions presenting innovative ideas and early results are also of interest. SUBMISSIONS Three kinds of submissions are solicited: * regular papers (up to 15 pages) presenting original and unpublished work related to the workshop topics, * position papers (up to 10 pages) presenting ideas and directions of interesting ongoing and yet unpublished research related to the workshop topics, and * tool demonstration papers (up to 8 pages) presenting and highlighting the distinguishing features of a topic-related tool (co-developed by the authors). PROCEEDINGS * Final versions of accepted regular and position papers will be published in a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). * The tool demonstration papers will not appear in the EPTCS proceedings, but will be included in the electronic pre-proceedings (distributed at the workhop) and made available on the workshop website. IMPORTANT DATES * Paper registration: December 6, 2013 * Submission deadline: December 13, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2014 * Final versions due: February 10, 2014 * Workshop date: April 12, 2014 PC CO-CHAIRS * Barbora Buhnova (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) * Lucia Happe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Jan Kofron (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Pieter.Philippaerts at cs.kuleuven.be Mon Sep 9 15:31:39 2013 From: Pieter.Philippaerts at cs.kuleuven.be (Pieter Philippaerts) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 15:31:39 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] ESSoS'14 abstract requirement changed... Message-ID: <019001cead60$e9e13800$bda3a800$@cs.kuleuven.be> International Symposium on Engineering Secure Software and Systems (ESSoS) http://distrinet.cs.kuleuven.be/events/essos/2014/ February 26 - 28, 2014, Munich, Germany The paper submission deadline (Sep 13) for ESSOS 2014 will not be extended, but due to several requests, paper submissions for which no abstract has been received yet are still allowed. Authors are encouraged to submit an abstract as soon as possible, but a paper can be submitted until the paper submission deadline even if no abstract was submitted first. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: as soon as possible (UPDATED!) Paper submission: September 13, 2013 Author notification: November 18, 2013 Camera-ready: December 8, 2013 Symposium: February 26-28, 2014 For your convenience, we have attached the CFP of the symposium to this email. 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URL: From Kristin.Y.Rozier at nasa.gov Mon Sep 9 23:49:55 2013 From: Kristin.Y.Rozier at nasa.gov (Kristin Yvonne Rozier) Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 14:49:55 -0700 Subject: [fg-arc] [fm-announcements] Second Call for Papers: NFM 2014 Message-ID: <522E4283.2060808@nasa.gov> ************************************************** The Sixth NASA Formal Methods Symposium http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/ 29 April - 1 May 2014 NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA ************************************************** Theme of the Symposium: ----------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and safety-critical systems require advanced techniques that address their specification, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia, industry, and government, with the goals of identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving assurance in mission- and safety-critical systems. Within NASA such systems include autonomous robots, separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen), and autonomous rendezvous and docking for spacecraft. Moreover, emerging paradigms such as property-based design, code generation, and safety cases are bringing with them new challenges and opportunities. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques, their theory, current capabilities, and limitations, as well as their application to aerospace, robotics, and other safety-critical systems in all design life-cycle stages. We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches marrying formal verification techniques with advances in safety-critical system development, such as requirements generation, analysis of aerospace operational concepts, and formal methods integrated in early design stages carrying throughout system development. Topics of Interest: ------------------- * Model checking * Theorem proving * Static analysis * Model-based development * Runtime monitoring * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Applications of formal methods to aerospace systems * Formal analysis of cyber-physical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering, modeling, requirements, and specifications * Requirements generation, specification debugging, formal validation of specifications * Use of formal methods in safety cases * Use of formal methods in human-machine interaction analysis * Formal methods for parallel hardware implementations * Use of formal methods in automated software engineering and testing * Correct-by-design, design for verification, and property-based design techniques * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods; e.g. abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, parallel and distributed techniques * Application of formal methods to emerging technologies Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract Submission: 14 Nov 2013 Paper Submission: 21 Nov 2013 Paper Notifications: 14 Jan 2014 Camera-ready Papers: 11 Feb 2014 Symposium: 29 April - 1 May 2014 Location & Cost: ---------------- The symposium will take place at the Gilruth Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA, 29 April to 1 May 2013. There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register. Submission Details: ------------------- There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages) 2. Short papers describing tools, experience reports, or descriptions of work in progress with preliminary results (6 pages) All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. Papers will appear in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and must use LNCS style formatting. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Keynote Speakers: ----------------- * Larry Paulson, University of Cambridge, UK * Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA * Special Guest Talk: "NASA Future Challenges in Formal Methods" Organizers: ----------- Mike Hinchey (General Chair) Julia Badger (PC Chair) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (PC Chair) Program Committee: ------------------ Domagoj Babic, Google Research, USA Calin Belta, Boston University, USA Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile Limited, UK Guillaume Brat, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Gianfranco Ciardo, Iowa State University, USA Frederic Dadeau, FEMTO-ST/INRIA, France Ewen Denney, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA James Disbrow, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, USA Steven Drager, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France Cindy Eisner, IBM Research-Haifa, Israel ?ric F?ron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Shalini Ghosh, SRI, USA Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, USA John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University, USA Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel Corporation, USA David R. Lester, University of Manchester, UK Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA Steven Miller, Rockwell Collins, USA Sheena Judson Miller, Barrios Technology/NASA Johnson Space Center, USA Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Lee Pike, Galois, Inc., USA Andr? Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Neha Rungta, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Johann Schumann, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Cristina Seceleanu, M?lardalen University, Sweden Sandeep K. Shukla, Virginia Tech, USA Radu Siminiceanu, National Institute of Aerospace/NASA Langley Research Center, USA Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, Italy Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Arnaud Venet, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center, USA Nok Wongpiromsarn, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore Karen Yorav, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Steering Committee: ------------------- Ewen Denney, SGT/NASA Ames Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Klaus Havelund, NASA/JPL Gerard Holzmann, NASA/JPL Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames Suzette Person, NASA Langley Kristin Y. Rozier, NASA Ames -- ____________________________________________________________ __ /\ \ \_____ / \ ###[==_____> / \ /_/ __ / __ \ \ \_____ | ( ) | ###[==_____> /| /\/\ |\ /_/ / | | | | \ / |=|==|=| \ Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Ph.D. / | | | | \ Research Computer Scientist / USA | ~||~ |NASA \ NASA Ames Research Center |______| ~~ |______| Phone: (650) 604-3197 (__||__) Fax: (650) 604-3594 /_\ /_\ !!! !!! http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/profile/kyrozier/ Any opinions expressed in this email are my own. --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From andreas.birk at swpm.de Wed Sep 11 09:13:40 2013 From: andreas.birk at swpm.de (andreas.birk at swpm.de) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 09:13:40 +0200 Subject: [fg-arc] Symposium "Software-Architektur", 26. September 2013, Ostfildern bei Stuttgart Message-ID: Einladung -- http://www.tae.de/software-architektur ============================== SYMPOSIUM SOFTWARE-ARCHITEKTUR ============================== Donnerstag, den 26. September 2013, in Ostfildern bei Stuttgart Themenschwerpunkte: > Architekturdokumentation > Architektur f?r eingebettete Systeme > Variantenreiche Systeme und Produktlinien > Erfahrungen aus der Praxis der Software-Architektur > Die Rolle der Software-Architektur im Unternehmen Keynote: Stefan Z?rner, oose Innovative Informatik GmbH, Hamburg "Warum Sie Ihre Softwarearchitektur dokumentieren sollten, und wie Sie das anstellen" Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: http://www.tae.de/software-architektur Auszug aus dem Programm: ======================== Architekturpr?fung f?r Produktlinien Thomas Eisenbarth, Axivion GmbH, Stuttgart Die h?ufigsten Modellierungsfehler Dr. habil. Andrea Herrmann, Herrmann & Ehrlich, Stuttgart Software-Architekturen (f?r embedded Systeme) erfolgreich mit der UML modellieren und verifizieren Thomas Batt, MicroConsult GmbH, M?nchen Die Laufzeit-Architektur - oft untersch?tzte Basis f?r robuste Software und effiziente Entwicklung von Embedded Systemen Andreas Willert, Willert Software Tools GmbH, B?ckeburg Welche Architekturdokumentation wollen Entwickler? 147 Praktiker sagen es uns... Dr. Matthias Naab, Dominik Rost, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern Offene Diskussion im Plenum: Architekturdokumentation in der Praxis Diskussionsteilnehmer u.a.: Stefan Z?rner, oose Innovative Informatik GmbH, Hamburg Dr. Matthias Naab, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern Dominik Rost, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern Tools f?r Web Applikations Lasttests Michael Jerger, Informatikb?ro Jerger, Reutlingen SW-Arch?ologie mit Aspekt-Orientierung Oliver B?hm, T-Systems, Leinfelden-Echterdingen http://www.tae.de/software-architektur Organisation/Kontakt: ===================== Andrea Zeh Technische Akademie Esslingen e.V. Tel. 0711 34008-52 E-Mail: andrea.zeh at tae.de Weitere Informationen und Anmeldung: ==================================== http://www.tae.de/software-architektur http://www.tae.de/software-architektur/anmeldung -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov Thu Sep 19 16:55:27 2013 From: cesar.a.munoz at nasa.gov (MUNOZ, CESAR (LARC-D320)) Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 14:55:27 +0000 Subject: [fg-arc] [fm-announcements] Formal Methods Position at NASA Message-ID: The Formal Methods team at NASA Langley Research Center, Hampton, Virginia, U.S., has opened the following positions (U.S. citizenship is required to apply). ANNOUNCEMENT NO: LA13D0064 POSITION: Research Computer Scientist, AST, Computer Research and Development, GS-1550-12/13, Promotion Potential GS-13 LOCATION: Org D320, Safety-Critical Avionics Systems Branch OPENING DATE: September 18, 2013 CLOSING DATE: October 09, 2013 AREA OF CONSIDERATION: This announcement is open to all qualified U.S. citizens. This position is located in the Safety-Critical Avionics Systems Branch within the Research Directorate. This position involves conducting research to develop formal verification methods for the analysis, design, and implementation of advanced future aircraft and spacecraft safety-critical systems. Additional details are available at the following websites prior to the closing date: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/351820600 *** ANNOUNCEMENT NO: LA13P0045 POSITION: NASA's Pathways Program Recent Graduate, Research Computer Scientist, GS-1550-12 Promotion Potential GS-13 LOCATION: D320, Safety-Critical Avionics Systems Branch OPENING DATE: September 18, 2013 CLOSING DATE: October 09, 2013 AREA OF CONSIDERATION: Current students from education institutions interested in paid opportunities with Federal agencies or recent Graduates from qualifying institutions within two years of degree or certification (Veterans precluded by their military service obligation, will have up to six years to apply) or Presidential Management Fellowships for individuals who have received a qualifying advanced degree within the preceding two years. This position is located in the Safety-Critical Avionics Systems Branch within the Research Directorate. This position involves conducting research to develop formal verification methods for the analysis, design, and implementation of advanced future aircraft and spacecraft safety-critical systems. Additional details are available at the following websites prior to theclosing date: http://www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewDetails/351743700 *** For more information on NASA's application process, go to http://nasajobs.nasa.gov --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request at lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner at lists.nasa.gov From klaus.havelund at jpl.nasa.gov Sat Sep 21 05:09:05 2013 From: klaus.havelund at jpl.nasa.gov (Klaus Havelund) Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 20:09:05 -0700 Subject: [fg-arc] [fm-announcements] TACAS 2014 3rd call for papers Message-ID: <9B2D7CB0-33BE-43ED-96CC-EDE39121420E@jpl.nasa.gov> ============================================================ THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS TACAS 2014 An ETAPS Member Conference 20th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems http://www.etaps.org/2014/tacas Abstract Submission: 4 October 2013 Paper Submission: 11 October 2013 Author Notification: 20 December 2013 ============================================================= TACAS is a forum for researchers, developers and users interested in rigorously based tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems. The conference serves to bridge the gaps between different communities with this common interest and to support them in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, flexibility and efficiency of tools and algorithms for building systems. Theoretical papers with clear relevance for tool construction and analysis, as well as tool descriptions and case studies with a conceptual message, are all encouraged. The topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to: - Specification and verification techniques - Software and hardware verification - Analytical techniques for real-time, hybrid, or stochastic systems - Analytical techniques for safety, security, or dependability - Model checking - Theorem proving - SAT and SMT solvers - Static and dynamic program analysis - Testing - Abstraction techniques for modeling and verification - Compositional and refinement-based methodologies - System construction and transformation techniques - Tool environments and tool architectures - Applications and case studies === Paper categories: === TACAS accepts four types of submissions: research papers, case study papers, regular tool papers, and tool demonstration papers. - Research papers clearly identify and justify a principled advance to the theoretical foundations for the construction and analysis of systems and, where applicable, are supported by experimental validation. Research papers can have a maximum of 15 pages. - Case study papers report on case studies (preferably in a "real life" setting). They should provide information about the following aspects: the system being studied and why it is of interest, the goals of the study, the challenges the system poses to automated analysis, research methodologies and the approach used, the degree to which goals were attained, and how the results can be generalized to other problems and domains. Case study papers can have a maximum of 15 pages. - Regular tool papers present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, and emphasize the design and implementation concerns including software architecture and core data structures. A regular tool paper should give a clear account of the tool's functionality, discuss the tool's practical capabilities with reference to the type and size of problems it can handle, experience with realistic case studies, and where applicable, provide a rigorous experimental evaluation. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool, preferably substantiated by data on enhancements in terms of resources and capabilities. We strongly suggest authors make their tools available via the web, even if only for the evaluation process. Tool papers can have a maximum of 15 pages. - Tool demonstration papers focus on the usage aspects of tools. The described tools must be publicly available. Theoretical foundations and experimental evaluation are not required, however, a motivation as to why the tool is interesting and significant should be provided. Tool demonstration papers can have a maximum of 6 pages. They should have an appendix of up to 6 additional pages with details on the actual demonstration. The proceedings will be published in the Advanced Research in Computing and Software Science (ARCoSS) subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers of all four types will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. === Submission: === A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting unpublished research not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden. Papers must follow the formatting guidelines specified by Springer at the URL: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html and be submitted electronically in pdf through Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=tacas2014. Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be rejected immediately. === Competition on Software Verification: === TACAS 2014 hosts the third competition on software verification with the goal to evaluate technology transfer and compare state-of-the-art software verifiers with respect to effectiveness and efficiency. More information can be found on the competition website: http://sv-comp.sosy-lab.org/2014. === Invited Speaker: === Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel) === Programme Chairs: === Erika ?brah?m (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL, USA) === Tool Chair: === Nikolaj Bj?rner (Microsoft Research, USA) === Programme Committee: === Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany) Saddek Bensalem (VERIMAG/UJF, France) Nathalie Bertrand (IRISA Rennes, France) Armin Biere (Johannes Kepler University, Austria) Nikolaj Bj?rner (Microsoft Research, USA) Rance Cleaveland (University of Maryland, USA) Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy) Cindy Eisner (IBM Research Haifa, Israel) Martin Fr?nzle (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany) Patrice Godefroid (Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA) Susanne Graf (Verimag, France) Orna Grumberg (Technion, Israel) Boudewijn Haverkort (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Gerard Holzmann (NASA JPL, USA) Barbara Jobstmann (CNRS, Verimag, France) Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and University of Twente, the Netherlands) Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Roland Meyer (TU Kaiserslautern, Germany) Corina Pasareanu (NASA Ames Research Center, USA) Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel) Paul Pettersson (M?lardalen University, Sweden) Nir Piterman (University of Leicester, UK) Jaco van de Pol (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) Natasha Sharygina (Universita della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland) Scott Smolka (Stony Brook University, USA) Bernhard Steffen (University of Dortmund, Germany) Marielle Stoelinga (University of Twente, the Netherlands) Cesare Tinelli (University of Iowa, USA) Fritz Vaandrager (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) Willem Visser (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) Ralf Wimmer (University of Freiburg, Germany) Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) === Steering Committee: === Rance Cleaveland (University of Maryland, USA) Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, Germany) Kim G. 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