FORMATS 2015

13th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

Objective

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 behavior depends upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on the temporal distances between occurrences of events.

Topics

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 inapplication domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunication).

Paper Submission

FORMATS 2015 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 Submitted papers must contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication elsewhere.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.

Each paper will undergo a thorough review process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee.

Papers will be submitted electronically via EasyChair online submission system.

Publication and special issue

The proceedings of FORMATS 2015 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

A special issue dedicated to FORMATS will be hosted in the Journal of Real Time Systems, Springer, collecting the extensions of papers selected by quality and fitness to the Journal scope, and subject to additional revision.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: April 20, 2015
• Paper submission: April 27, 2015
• Notification of acceptance: June 10, 2015
• Final version due: June 22, 2015
• Conference: September 2-4, 2015

Program Chairs

• Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado at Boulder, USA)
• Enrico Vicario (University of Florence, Italy)

Program Committee

• Bernard Berthomieu (LAAS/CNRS, Toulouse, France)
• Nathalie Bertrand (INRIA Rennes, France)
• Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy)
• Marius Bozga (VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France)
• Victor Braberman (University of Buenos Aires, Argentina)
• Thomas Brihaye (University of Mons, Belgium)
• Laura Carnevali (University of Florence, Italy)
• Franck Cassez (Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia)
• Krishnendu Chatterjee (Institute of science and Technology, Austria)
• Martin Franzle (Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany)
• Goran Frehse (VERIMAG / University of Grenoble, France)
• Laurent Fribourg (LSV, ENS Cachan & CNRS, France)
• Radu Grosu (Institute of Computer Engineering, Vienna, Austria)
• Franjo Ivancic (Google, New York, USA)
• Xiaoqing Jin (Toyota Technical Center, Los Angeles, USA)
• Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Kai Lampka (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Axel Legay (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France)
• Didier Lime (IRCCyN / Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France)
• Giuseppe Lipari (Lille University, France)
• Oded Maler (VERIMAG/CNRS, Grenoble, France)
• Rahul Mangharam (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Nicolas Markey (LSV, ENS Cachan & CNRS, France)
• Cesar Sanchez (IMDEA Software Institute)
• Krishna Shankara Narayanan (Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India)
• Jeremy Sproston (University of Turin, Italy)
• Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
• Ashish Tiwari (SR International, United States)
• Louis-Marie Traonouez (IRISA/INRIA Rennes, France)
• Stavros Tripakis (Aalto University, Finland, and UC Berkeley, USA)
• Ashutosh Trivedi (Indian Institute Of Technology, Bombay, India)
• Frits Vaandrager (Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands)
• Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois, Urbana, USA)

Steering Commitee

• 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 and colocation

FORMATS 2015 will take place in Madrid, in the days 2-4 September 2015.

It will be colocated with QEST, CONCUR, TGC, EPEW, and WS-FM/BEAT, as part of Madrid Meet 2015 (http://mafalda.fdi.ucm.es/madrid2015/), a week on quantitative and formal methods for computer safety, reliability, and performance:

CONCUR2015
26th Conference on Concurrency Theory

QEST2015
12th International Conference on Quantitative Evaluation of SysTems

FORMATS2015
13th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems

TGC2015
10th International Symposium on Trustworthy Global Computing

WS-FM/BEAT 2015
International Symposium on Web Services, Formal Methods and Behavioural Types

EPEW 2015
12th European Workshop on Performance Engineering

EXPRESS/SOS 2015
Combined 22nd International Workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency and 12th Workshop on Structured Operational Semantics

PV
2nd International Workshop on Parameterized Verification

TRENDS 2015

YR-CONCUR 2015

FOCLASA 2015
14th International Workshop on Foundations of Coordination Languages and Self-Adaptation