CfP: 4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems

4th International Workshop on Formal Techniques for Safety-Critical Systems (FTSCS 2015)

(satellite workshop of ICFEM 2015)

Paris, November 6, 2015 | http://www.ftscs.org

*** Science of Computer Programming special issue ***
*** Springer CCIS proceedings ***

Aims and Scope:

There is an increasing demand for using formal methods to validate and verify safety-critical systems in fields such as power generation and
distribution, avionics, automotive systems, and medical systems. In particular, newer standards, such as DO-178C (avionics), ISO 26262
(automotive systems), IEC 62304 (medical devices), and CENELEC EN 50128 (railway systems), emphasize the need for formal methods and
model-based development, thereby speeding up the adaptation of such methods in industry.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers who are interested in the application of formal and semi-formal methods
to improve the quality of safety-critical computer systems. FTSCS strives to promote research and development of formal methods and
tools for industrial applications, and is particularly interested in industrial applications of formal methods.

Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

• case studies and experience reports on the use of formal methods for analyzing safety-critical systems, including avionics, automotive, medical, railway, and other kinds of safety-critical and QoS-critical systems
• methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, etc., of complex safety/QoS-critical systems
• analysis methods that address the limitations of formal methods in industry (usability, scalability, etc.)
• formal analysis support for modeling languages used in industry, such as AADL, Ptolemy, SysML, SCADE, Modelica, etc.
• code generation from validated models.

The workshop will provide a platform for discussions and the exchange of innovative ideas, so submissions on work in progress are encouraged.

Submission:

We solicit submissions reporting on:

A- original research contributions (15 pages max, LNCS format);
B- applications and experiences (15 pages max, LNCS format);
C- surveys, comparisons, and state-of-the-art reports (15 pages max, LNCS);
D- tool papers (5 pages max, LNCS format);
E- position papers and work in progress (5 pages max, LNCS format)

related to the topics mentioned above.

All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done
via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftscs2015. The final version of the paper must be prepared in LaTeX, adhering to
the LNCS format available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

Publication:

All accepted papers will appear in the pre-proceedings of FTSCS 2015. Accepted papers in the categories A-D above will appear in the workshop proceedings that will be published as a volume in Springer's CCIS series.

The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in a special issue of the Science of Computer Programming journal.

Important dates:

• Submission deadline: September 5, 2015
• Notification of acceptance: October 5, 2015
• Workshop: November 6/7, 2015

Venue:

Paris, France (city center!)

Program chairs:

• Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan
• Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway

Program committee:

• Musab AlTurki King Fahd U. of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia
• Etienne Andre University Paris 13, France
• Toshiaki Aoki JAIST, Japan
• Cyrille Artho AIST, Japan
• Kyungmin Bae Carnegie Mellon University, USA
• David Broman KTH, Sweden and UC Berkeley, USA
• Bernd Fischer Stellenbosch University, South Africa
• Osman Hasan National U. of Sciences & Technology, Pakistan
• Klaus Havelund NASA JPL, USA
• Fuyuki Ishikawa National Institute of Informatics, Japan
• Takashi Kitamura AIST, Japan
• Alexander Knapp Augsburg University, Germany
• Brian Larson Kansas State University, USA
• Wenchao Li SRI International, USA
• Robi Malik University of Waikato, New Zealand
• Frederic Mallet INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France
• Roberto Nardone University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy
• Thomas Noll RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Peter Olveczky University of Oslo, Norway
• Charles Pecheur Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
• Paul Pettersson Malardalen University, Sweden
• Camilo Rocha Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria, Colombia
• Markus Roggenbach Swansea University, UK
• Ralf Sasse ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Oleg Sokolsky University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Sofiene Tahar Concordia University, Canada
• Jean-Pierre Talpin INRIA Rennes, France
• Jackie Wang McMaster University, Canada
• Alan Wassyng McMaster University, Canada
• Michael Whalen University of Minnesota, USA
• Huibiao Zhu East China Normal University, China

Contact:
(web) http://www.ftscs.org
(email) peterol@ifi.uio.no and c.artho@aist.go.jp