FORMATS 2014

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FORMATS 2014

12th International Conference on

Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

Preliminary Call for Papers

http://www.florence2014.org/

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Objective
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Timing aspects of systems from a variety of computer science domains
have been treated independently by different communities. Researchers
interested in semantics, verification and performance analysis study
models such as timed automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design
community focusses 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.

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.


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. Typical topics include (but are not limited
to):

* Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems
and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata,
timed Petri nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus
algebra, probabilistic models).

* Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and
software tools for analyzing timed systems and 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, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling
in manufacturing and telecommunication).

Program Chairs

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Marius Bozga (VERIMAG / CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Axel Legay (IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France)


Program Committee
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Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Parosh Aziz Abdulla (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Eugene Asarin (LIAFA / University Paris Diderot, France)
Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy)
Alexandre David (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Alexandre Donze (UC Berkeley, USA)
Georgios Fainekos (Arizona State University, USA)
Martin Franzle (Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg, Germany)
Goran Frehse (VERIMAG / University of Grenoble, France)
Laurent Fribourg (LSV / CNRS, Paris, France)
Gilles Geeraerts (Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
Marcin Jurdzinski (University of Warwick, UK)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Kai Lampka (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Didier Lime (Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France)
Nicolas Markey (LSV / CNRS, Paris, France)
David Parker (University of Birmingham, UK)
Ocan Sankur (ENS Cachan, France)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
P.S. Thiagarajan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Louis-Marie Traonouez (IRISA / INRIA Rennes, France)
Ashutosh Trivedi (IIT Bombay, India)
Frits Vaandrager (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Enrico Vicario (University of Florence, Italy)
Sergio Yovine (CONICET, Argentina)


Steering Commitee
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Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Eugene Asarin (LIAFA / University Paris Diderot, France)
Thomas A. Henzinger (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Oded Maler (VERIMAG / CNRS, Grenoble, France)
Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden)


Venue
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FORMATS 2014 will take place in Florence, Italy as part of FLORENCE
2014, a one-week scientific event on formal and quantitative methods
for the development of dependable and performing systems:

http://www.florence2014.org/

It will be held in Florence during the week 8-12 September 2014, and
it will co-locate five major conferences in the areas of formal and
quantitative analysis of systems, performance engineering, computer
safety, and industrial critical applications.

All the conferences will take place at the Aeronautical Sciences
School of the Italian Air Force, inside the monumental and historical
park of Cascine in the city of Florence.


Colocated events
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QEST: International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems

SAFECOMP: International Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and
Security

EPEW: European Workshop on Performance Engineering

FMICS: International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial
Critical Systems