FORMATS 2016 - Second Call for Papers

[Sebastian Gerwinn]

[ Apologies for cross posting ]

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                            FORMATS 2016

                  14th International Conference on
             Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

                      Second Call for Paper
                    http://formats2016.lsv.fr

FORMATS'16 takes place at Hotel Chateau Laurier in Québec City,
Canada, where it is colocated with CONCUR'16 and QEST'16.
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Objectives
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Control and analysis of the timing of computations is crucial to many
domains of system engineering, be it, e.g., for ensuring timely
response to stimuli originating in an uncooperative environment or for
synchronizing components in VLSI. Reflecting this broad scope, timing
aspects of systems from a variety of domains have been treated
independently by different communities in computer science and
control. Researchers interested in semantics, verification and
performance analysis study models such as timed automata and timed
Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on propagation and
switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have to take
account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses
after sampling the environment, as well as of the dynamics of the
controlled process during this span.

Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their
particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are
basic problems that are common to all of them. In particular, all
these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends upon
combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints
on the temporal distances between occurrences of events. Often, these
constraints cannot be separated, as intrinsic dynamics of processes
couples them, necessitating models, methods, and tools facilitating
their combined analysis. Reflecting this fact, FORMATS'16 will
feature a special session on hybrid discrete-continuous systems.


Topics
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The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and
practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together researchers
from different disciplines that share interests in modelling and
analysis of timed systems and, as a generalization, hybrid
systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to):

* Foundations and Semantics:

Theoretical foundations of timed systems and languages; new models
and logics or analysis and comparison of existing models (like
automata, Petri nets, or process algebras involving quantitative
time; hybrid automata; probabilistic automata and logics).

* Methods and Tools:

Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and software tools for
analyzing or synthesizing timed or hybrid systems and for resolving
temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,
optimization, model checking, testing, constraint solving, etc.)


* Applications:

Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in application
domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software,
embedded control, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in
manufacturing and telecommunication).


Paper Submission
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FORMATS'16 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results
and/or experience reports related to the topics mentioned
above. Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished
contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere. The papers
should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the Springer LNCS
style guidelines. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages in length,
but may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be
reviewed at the discretion of the program committee. Each paper will
undergo a thorough review process.

Papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online
submission system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2016


The proceedings of FORMATS'16 will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A special issue dedicated to
FORMATS will be hosted in a topical journal, collecting the extensions
of papers selected by quality and subject to additional revision.




Important Dates
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Abstract Submission: April 15, 2016
Paper Submission: April 22, 2016
Notification: June 4, 2016
Final paper due: June 11, 2016
Conference: August 24-26, 2016


General Chair
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Josée Desharnais, (U. Laval, Canada)


Program Comittee
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S. Akshay, (IIT Bombay, India)
Béatrice Bérard, (U. Paris 6, France)
Hanifa Boucheneb, (U. Montréal, Canada)
Laura Carnevali, (U. Firenze, Italy)
Franck Cassez, (U. Macquarie, Australia)
Martin Fränzle, (U. Oldenburg, Germany), (chair)
Gilles Geeraerts, (ULB, Belgium)
Michael R. Hansen, (DTU, Denmark)
Boudewijn Haverkort, (U. Twente, NL)
Franjo Ivancic, (Google, USA)
Oded Maler, (VERIMAG, CNRS-UGA, France)
Nicolas Markey, (U. Paris-Saclay, France), (chair)
Chris Myers, (U. Utah, USA)
Jens Oehlerking, (Bosch GmbH, Germany)
David Parker, (U. Birmingham, UK)
Karin Quaas, (U. Leipzig, Germany)
Stefan Ratschan, (CAS, Czech Republic)
César Sanchez, (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, (U. Colorado, USA)
Jeremy Sproston, (U. Torino, Italy)
Jiri Srba, (U. Aalborg, Denmark)
Lothar Thiele, (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Enrico Vicario, (U. Firenze, Italy)
Mahesh Viswanathan, (U. Illinois, USA)
James Worrell, (U. Oxford, UK)
Sergio Yovine, (U. Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Huibiao Zhu, (ECNU, China)



Steering Committee
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Rajeev Alur, (U. Pennsylvania, USA)
Eugene Asarin, (U. Paris Diderot, France)
Thomas A. Henzinger, (IST Austria)
Joost-Pieter Katoen, (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Kim G. Larsen, (U. Aalborg, Denmark)
Oded Maler, (VERIMAG, CNRS-UGA, France)
Lothar Thiele, (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Wang Yi, (U. Uppsala, Sweden)


Publicity Chair
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Sebastian Gerwinn, (OFFIS, Germany)


Invited speakers
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Scott Smolka, (U. Stony Brook, USA)
Oleg Sokolsky, (U. Pennsylvania, USA)
Ufuk Topcu, (U. Texas, USA)