PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS


ICFEM 2015
17th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods
Cnam, Paris, France
November 3-6, 2015

Submission Deadlines:
April 19, 2015 (abstracts) & April 26, 2015 (full papers)
http://icfem2015.lri.fr/

GENERAL INFORMATION

Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving as an international forum for
researchers and practitioners who have been seriously applying formal
methods to practical applications. Researchers and practitioners, from
industry, academia, and government, are encouraged to attend, present
their research, and help advance the state of the art. We are
interested in work that has been incorporated into real production
systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and
tangible benefit. ICFEM 2015 is organised and sponsored by the
University Paris-Sud and CNAM Paris.

SCOPE OF THE CONFERENCE

Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged,
but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods and their
practical applications will also be considered.

- Abstraction and refinement
- Formal specification and modeling
- Program analysis
- Software verification
- Software model checking
- Formal approaches to software testing
- Formal methods for self-adaptive systems, for object and component
systems, concurrent and real-time systems, for cloud computing and
cyber-physical systems, for software safety, security, reliability
and dependability
- Tool development, integration and experiments involving verified
systems
- Formal methods used in certifying products under international
standards
- Formal model-based development and code generation


This year, ICFEM will have special tracks on application of formal
methods in three areas:

- Computer security
- Aeronautics
- Train control systems

Submissions in these topics are especially encouraged. Papers in these
areas will be subject to the same rigorous review process as other
papers. Accepted special track papers will be organised into special
sessions.


INVITED SPEAKERS
- Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK
http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~alcc/

- Sava Krstic, Intel corporation, USA


TYPES OF CONTRIBUTIONS

- Research papers (max. 16 pages) describing results of theoretical
or experimental research, which must be original, significant, and
sound. Submissions to the conference must not have been published or
be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere.

- Tool papers (max. 6 pages) describing new tools or new features of
existing tools, without necessary giving the theoretical background
details. Benchmarks or experiences are strongly encouraged. The tools
must be available for use by the reviewers.

SUBMISSIONS AND PUBLICATION

All contributions to ICFEM'15 have to be submitted electronically in
PDF format via easy chair. All submissions have to follow the Springer
LNCS paper format. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with
proceedings or submission of papers that have already been published
elsewhere is not allowed.


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstracts due : April 19, 2015
Full papers due : April 26, 2015
Workshop proposals: March 22, 2015
Notification of acceptance : June 8, 2015
Camera ready : June 21, 2015

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Etienne André, University of Paris 13, France
Frank de Boer, CWI, The Netherlands
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US
Ahmed Bouajjani, University of Paris-Diderot, France
Jonathan Bowen, Birmingham City University, United Kingdom
Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom [PC Chair]
Sylvain Conchon, University of Paris-Sud, France [PC Chair]
Tristan Crolard, CNAM, France [Local Chair]
Rémi Delmas, ONERA, France
Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia
Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK
Michaela Huhn, Technische Universität Clausthal, Germany
Alexei Illiasov, University of Newcastle, United Kingdom
Fabrice Kordon, University of Paris 6, France
Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Pascale Le Gall, Ecole Centrale Paris, France
Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy, France
Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, Sweden
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Manuel Nunez, University Complutense, Madrid
Jan Paleska, University of Bremen, Germany
Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Ion Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK
Zongyan Qiu, Peking University, China
Silvio Ranise, FBK, Italy
Jing Sun, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan
Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany
Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Fatiha Zaïdi, University of Paris-Sud, France [General Chair]
Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy
Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China