CfP: Deadline Extension: FESCA@ETAPS 2015

Please, consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to FESCA 2015.

The submission deadline has been extended to December 21, 2014.

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

http://fesca.ipd.kit.edu/fesca2015/

* Paper registration: December 17, 2014
* Submission deadline: December 21, 2014
* Notification of acceptance: January 26, 2015

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.

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS: We are pleased to announce invited speaker and tutorial:

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"

and Michael Langhammer, from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, has
agreed to deliver tutorial on the topic:
"Co-Evolution of Component-based Architecture and Code using Vitruvius"

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 17, 2014
* Submission deadline: December 21, 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)