15-17 September 2008
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=09=09 FORMATS'08 -- Second Call for Papers
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6th International Conference on Formal Modelling
=09 and Analysis of Timed Systems
=09 Saint-Malo, France, September 15--17, 2008
=09 (Co-Located with QEST'08 : www.qest.org)
http://formats08.inria.fr
Submission Deadline : **May 12th**, 2008
Submission is now open
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Objectives and Scope of the Conference:
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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 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.
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.
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,
optimisation, 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).
Submission and Publication:
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The proceedings of FORMATS'08 will be published by Springer in the
Lecture Notes in Computer Scienceseries. Papers must contain original
contributions, be clearly written, and include appropriate references
to and comparison with related work. Simultaneous submission to other
conferences with published proceedings is not allowed. Submissions
should not exceed 15 pages, and should be formatted according to
Springer LNCS guidelines. If necessary, the submission may be
supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at
the discretion of the program committee.
Program Committee:
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* Eugne Asarin, LIAFA, Univ. Paris 7 and CNRS, France
* Patricia Bouyer, CNRS, LSV, France
* Ed Brinksma, ESI, Univ. of Twente & Eindhoven Univ. of Technology,
=09 =09 =09The Netherlands
* Franck Cassez, CNRS/IRCCyN, Nantes, France
* Flavio Corradini, Univ. Camerino, Italy
* Deepak D'Souza, CSA, IISc, Bangalore, India
* Martin Frnzle, Univ. of Oldenbourg, Germany
* Goran Frehse, Univ. Grenoble 1, Verimag, France
* Claude Jard, ENS Cachan/IRISA, Rennes, France
* Joost-Pieter Katoen RWTH Aachen Univ., Germany
* Bruce Krogh, CMU, USA
* Salvatore La Torre, Univ. of Salerno, Italy
* Insup Lee, Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA
* Rupak Majumdar, UCLA, USA
* Brian Nielsen, CISS & Aalborg Univ., Denmark
* Jol Ouaknine, Oxford Univ., UK
* Paritosh Pandya, TIFR, Bombay, India
* Paul Pettersson, Mlardalen Univ., Sweden
* Jean-Franois Raskin, ULB, Belgium
* P.S. Thiagarajan, National Univ. of Singapore
* Stavros Tripakis, Cadence Research Labs and Verimag/CNRS,
=09 =09Berkeley, USA
* Frits Vaandrager, Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, The Netherlands
* Farn Wang, National Taiwan Univ., Taiwan
* Wang Yi, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
* Tomohiro Yoneda, NII, Tokyo, Japan
Steering Committee:
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* Rajeev Alur, Univ. Pennsylvania, USA
* Flavio Corradini, Univ. Camerino, Italy
* Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg Univ., Denmark
* Oded Maler, Verimag, France
* Walter Vogler, Univ. Augsburg, Germany
* Wang Yi, Uppsala Univ., Sweden
Chairs:
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* Franck Cassez (CNRS/IRCCyN, Nantes, France)
* Claude Jard (ENS Cachan/IRISA, Rennes, France)
Important Dates:
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- Submission Deadline: May 12th, 2008
- Notification: June 23rd, 2008
Contact Information:
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formats08@inria.fr