[fg-arc] FESCA at ETAPS 2015: CfP for 12th International Workshop on Formal Engineering approaches to Software Components and Architectures, April 12th, 2015, London, UK

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                              Call for Papers

                               - FESCA 2015 -

              12th International Workshop on Formal Engineering
              approaches to Software Components and Architectures

                          Satellite event of ETAPS
                        April 12th, 2015, London, UK

                      http://fesca.ipd.kit.edu/fesca2015/
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     *    Paper registration: December 10, 2014
     *    Submission deadline: December 17, 2014
     *    Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2015

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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.

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PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: We are pleased to announce invited speaker:

Dr. Steffen Zschaler, from Software Modelling and Applied Logic Group,  
Department of Informatics at King's College London (UK), has agreed to  
deliver the FESCA 2015 keynote speech on the topic:
"Building flexible analysis: Modular formal specification of QoS and  
QoS analysis"

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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.

We encourage not only mature research results, submissions presenting  
innovative ideas and early results of junior researchers are also of a  
particular 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, position and tool papers  
will be published in a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in  
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS).

IMPORTANT DATES

     *    Paper registration: December 10, 2014
     *    Submission deadline: December 17, 2014
     *    Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2015
     *    Final versions due: February 16, 2015
     *    Workshop date:  April 12, 2015

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (tentative)

     * Premysl Brada (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic)
     * Ivana Cerna (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
     * Yanja Dajsuren (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
     * Antinisca Di Marco (Universita dell'Aquila, Italy)
     * Petr Hnetynka (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)
     * Samuel Kounev (Universitat Wuerzburg, Germany)
     * Ralf Kuesters (Universitat Trier, Germany)
     * Markus Lumpe (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
     * Daniel Menasche (UFRJ, Brazil)
     * Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
     * Dorina Petriu (Carleton Univesity, USA)
     * Nadia Polikarpova (ETH Zuerich, Switzerland)
     * Ralf Reussner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
     * Cristina Seceleanu (Malardalen University, Sweden)
     * Catia Trubiani (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
     * Steffen Zschaler (King's College London, UK)


PC CO-CHAIRS

     *     Barbora Buhnova (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
     *     Lucia Happe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
     *     Jan Kofron (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)