The IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems announces a
forthcoming special section on Formal Approaches to be published in June
2018.

Formal methods and techniques play a key role in designing and
developing highly reliable information systems and embedded systems. The
last decades have seen various new techniques and profound theoretical
results using formal methods in surprisingly many fields such as
modeling, requirements analysis, specification, automatic generation of
codes, testing, verification, and maintenance. They are rapidly
extending their application domains as a result of the recent growth of
information and communication technologies.

The Special Section on Formal Approaches aims at stimulating research on
formal approaches to information systems and embedded systems, ranging
from fundamental theory to practical applications. Our emphasis is put
on the cross-fertilization of related research fields and encouragement
of young researchers.

Topics:
The major topics are listed below, but we solicit submissions in all
areas of formal approaches, i.e., first to formalize information
systems, embedded systems, and their environment, next to analyze their
behavior and to derive their properties rigorously, and then to solve
various problems in designing and managing the systems.

- Theoretical foundations: all aspects of theory related to formal
description and verification for structure and behavior of systems.
- Formal techniques: techniques for mainly describing and analyzing
systems, such as software, hardware and networks.
- Formal tools: tools based on formal methods such as model checkers,
theorem provers, and static and dynamic analyzers.
- Applications: practical experiences of applying formal methods to
information systems, embedded systems, circuits, security, etc.
- Education: education on formal methods.

Submission Instructions:

The deadline for submission is Aug 21, 2017, 23:59 JST(GMT+9).
Manuscripts should be carefully prepared according to the guideline
in the "Information for Authors" (available at
http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html). The preferred
length of the manuscript is 8 pages. Only electronic submission
through the web page is accepted.

Submit a complete paper and transfer copyright of the paper using the
IEICE Web site
https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx
Authors should choose the [Special FO] Formal Approaches"
as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen.

Editorial Committee:

Guest Editor-in-Chief:
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya (Osaka University)
Guest Editors:
Toshiaki Aoki (JAIST)
Hiroyuki Nakagawa (Osaka University)
Members:
Takeo Imai (Toshiba Corp.)
Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Institute of Infomatics)
Koichi Kobayashi (Hokkaido University)
Hironobu Kuruma (Hitachi, Ltd.)
Ken Mano (NTT Communication Science Laboratories)
Shingo Yamaguchi (Yamaguchi University)
Tomoyuki Yokogawa (Okayama Prefectural University)

Further information may be obtained from the web page at:
http://www-ise4.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~t-tutiya/FA/

All inquiries should be sent to the guest editor in chief:
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya
Osaka University
1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
E-mail: t-tutiya@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Important Dates:
Submission Deadline: Aug 21, 2017 23:59 JST (GMT+9)
First Notification: Oct 17, 2017
Revised Version Deadline: Dec 17, 2017
Final Notification: Jan 24, 2018

Important Notice

(1) At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member when the
manuscript is submitted for review. For the application of IEICE
membership, visit
http://www.ieice.org/eng/member/OM-appli.html

(2) When a paper has been accepted for publication, the authors are
required to pay the page charges covering part of the cost of
publication. Please carefuly read the submission guideline at
http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html