6 Nov 2009
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
TFM 2009 - DEADLINE EXTENSION TO 8 JUNE
Please visit: http://www.di.uminho.pt/tfm09
TFM2009
2nd Int. FME Conference on Teaching Formal Methods
"Widening Access to Formal Methods"
Friday, November 6th 2009, co-located with
FM2009 : 16th International Symposium on Formal Methods
Eindhoven, the Netherlands, November 2 - November 6, 2009
CALL FOR PAPERS
(URL: http://www.di.uminho.pt/tfm09)
1. About the conference
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Ten years after the First World Formal Methods Congress (FM'99) in
Toulouse, formal methods communities from all over the world will once
again have an opportunity to come together. As part of the First Formal
Methods Week event surrounding the FM2009 conference in Eindhoven, Formal
Methods Europe will be organizing TFM2009, the Second International
Conference on Teaching Formal Methods.
The conference will serve as a forum to explore the successes and failures
of Formal Methods (FM) education, and to promote cooperative projects to
further education and training in FMs. We would like to provide a forum
for lecturers, teachers, and industrial partners to discuss their
experience, present their pedagogical methodologies, and explore best
practices.
TFM2009 follows in a series of recent events on teaching formal methods,
including: two BCS-FACS TFM workshops (Oxford in 2003, and London in
2006), the TFM 2004 conference in Ghent (with proceedings published as
Springer LNCS Volume 3294), the FM-Ed 2006 workshop (Hamilton, co-located
with FM'06), FORMED (Budapest, at ETAPS 2008), FMET 2008 (Kitakyushu 2008,
co-located with ICFEM), etc.
2. Topics of interest
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Formal methods (FM) have an important role to play in the development of
complex computing systems - a role acknowledged in industrial standards
such as IEC 61508 and ISO/IEC 15408, and in the increasing use of precise
modeling notations, semantic markup languages, and model-driven
techniques. There is a growing need for software engineers who can work
effectively with simple, mathematical abstractions, and with practical
notions of inference and proof. However, there is little clear guidance ?
for educators, for managers, or for the engineers themselves ? as to what
might comprise a basic education in FM. Neither the present IEEE/ACM
Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) nor the forthcoming
Graduate Software Engineering Reference Curriculum (GSWERC) provide the
kind of specific information that teachers and practitioners need to
establish an adequate, balanced programme of learning in FM.
Original contributions are solicited that provide insight, opinions, and
suggestions for courses of action regarding the teaching FMs, including
but not limited to the following aspects:
* experiences of teaching FMs, both successful and unsuccessful;
* educational resources including the use of books, case studies
and the internet;
* the education of weak and mathphobic students;
* the integration, or otherwise, of FMs into the curriculum,
including
contributions to the definition of a Formal Methods Body of
Knowledge (FMBOK);
* the advantages of FM-trained graduates in the workplace;
* changing attitudes towards FMs in students, academic staff and
practitioners;
* the necessary mathematical background.
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the
LNCS series. Submissions may be up to 20 pages long using Springer's LNCS
format.
3. Important dates
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Please put the following dates in your diary:
Submission deadline (extended) June 8, 2009
Notification of acceptance July 6, 2009
Final version August 3, 2009
4. How to submit
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Papers for TFM2009 will be processed through the EasyChair conference
management system. To submit your paper, please visit:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tfm2009
5. Invited speakers
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To be announced
6. Programme Committee
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Izzat Alsmadi (North Dakota State University, USA)
Dines Bjorner (IIMM Institute, Denmark)
Eerke Boiten (University of Kent, UK)
Raymond Boute (Universiteit Gent, Belgium)
Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College, Dublin)
Jim Davies (University of Oxford, UK)
David Duce (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
John Fitzgerald (University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)
Jeremy Gibbons (University of Oxford, UK)
Randolph Johnson (National Security Agency, USA)
Michael Mac an Airchinnigh (Trinity College, Dublin)
Dino Mandrioli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Jose Oliveira (Universidade do Minho, Portugal)
Kees Pronk (Technische Universiteit Delft, NL)
Bernhard Schaetz (Tecnical University of Munique, Germany)
Wolfgang Schreiner (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Simao Melo de Sousa (Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal)
Kenji Taguchi (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Jeannette Wing (Carnegie-Mellon University, USA)
7. Sponsorship
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TFM2009 is supported by FME, the Formal Methods Europe Association.