Call for Papers - LfSA'12 - Logics for System Analysis

[Philipp Ruemmer]

             Call for Papers
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  LfSA'12 -- Logics for System Analysis
  http://www.ls.cs.cmu.edu/LfSA12

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  Workshop Affiliated with CAV 2012
  July 7th, 2012, Berkeley, USA

Safety-critical systems frequently occur as real-time systems,
embedded systems, hybrid systems, distributed systems, and
cyber-physical systems. They are also becoming more and more important
in many application domains, including aviation, automotive, railway,
robotic, or medical applications, where both safety and security are
relevant aspects. To ensure the correct functioning of safety-critical
systems it is necessary to model and reason about hardware, software,
communication aspects, physical properties, and the system
environment.

LfSA’12 is the second workshop on Logics for System Analysis, devoted
to the systematic theoretical study, practical development, and
applied use of logics for system analysis. The purpose of the LfSA
workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested
in studying practically relevant systems or in developing the logical
foundations and analysis tools for their study.

Topics include

* Logics for safety-critical systems (real-time, embedded, hybrid,
  distributed, stochastic, cyber-physical)

* Logic-based methods for development of safety-critical systems

* Logics to study security aspects of systems or protocols
      
* System representations using logics, automata, modeling languages,
  state charts, Petri nets, dataflow models
      
* Theories, decision procedures, and calculi for system analysis
      
* Model checking, theorem proving, and systematic testing
      
* Case studies for logical system analysis
      
* Applications of system analysis to industrial problems
    
In particular, we invite contributions that bridge the gap between
theory and practice or that combine different application domains.

Submission Categories
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* Regular papers (up to 15 pages), which should present previously
  unpublished work (completed or in progress), including descriptions
  of research, tools, and applications.

* Short papers (up to 5 pages), which describe work in progress or aim
  at initiating discussions.

* Presentation-only papers, i.e., papers already submitted or
  presented at a conference or another workshop; such papers will not
  be included in the LfSA proceedings but will be presented during the
  workshop.

In addition to informal and electronic workshop proceedings, we
consider the option of a special issue in a journal after the workshop

Workshop/Programme Chairs
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  Andre Platzer
  Carnegie Mellon University

  Philipp Ruemmer
  Uppsala University

Programme Committee
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  A. Banerjee             (IMDEA Madrid)
  R. Barbosa              (U. Coimbra)
  F. S. de Boer           (CWI Amsterdam)
  A. Cimatti              (IRST Trento)
  M. Dam                  (KTH Stockholm)
  S. Demri                (CNRS Cachan)
  M. Giese                (U. of Oslo)
  I. Hasuo                (U. Tokyo)
  F. Ivancic              (NEC Lab. Princeton)
  E. B. Johnsen           (U. of Oslo)
  V. Sofronie-Stokkermans (U. Koblenz)
  U. Waldmann             (MPI Saarbrücken)

Important Dates/Deadlines
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  Abstract submission: April 13, 2012  
  Paper submission:    April 20, 2012  
  Notification:        June 8, 2012
  Final version:       June 29, 2012
  Workshop:            July 7, 2012
  
Workshop Webpage
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  http://www.ls.cs.cmu.edu/LfSA12

Submission via Easychair
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  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lfsa12