The Ershov Informatics Conference (the PSI Conference Series, 9th edition) is the premier international forum in Russia for research and its applications in computer, software and information sciences. The conference brings together academic and industrial researchers, developers and users to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the conference area. In doing so, the forum provides a venue for building up research collaborations between the rapidly growing Russian Informatics Community and its international counterparts. Also, the conference welcomes both young researchers looking for international cooperation in computer science and established scientists willing to attract new colleagues to their research.

Programme Committee Chairs

Irina Virbitskaite
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russua

Andrei Voronkov
The University of Manchester, UK

Confirmed Keynote Speakers

Edmund M. Clarke, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA
Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Cambridge, UK
Bertrand Meyer, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland Vladimiro Sassone, University of Southampton,
Southampton, UK
Vadim E. Kotov, Silicon Valley, California, USA

Conference Topics

1. Foundations of Program and System Development and Analysis
o specification, validation, and verification techniques,
o program analysis, transformation and synthesis,
o semantics, logic and formal models of programs,
o partial evaluation, mixed computation, abstract interpretation, compiler construction,
o theorem proving and model checking,
o concurrency theory,
o modeling and analysis of real-time and hybrid systems,
o computer models and algorithms for bioinformatics.

2. Programming Methodology and Software Engineering
o object-oriented, aspect-oriented, component-based and generic programming,
o programming by contract,
o program and system construction for parallel and distributed computing,
o constraint programming,
o multi-agent technology,
o system re-engineering and reuse,
o integrated programming environments,
o software architectures,
o software development and testing,
o model-driven system/software development,
o agile software development,
o software engineering methods and tools,
o program understanding and visualization.

3. Information Technologies
o data models,
o database and information systems,
o knowledge-based systems and knowledge engineering,
o bioinformatics engineering,
o ontologies and semantic Web,
o digital libraries, collections and archives, Web publishing,
o peer-to-peer data management.

In addition to papers on topics from the list above, papers both bridging the gap between different directions and promoting mutual understanding of researchers are welcome. Papers defining the general prospects in computer, software and information sciences are also encouraged.

Organizers
 A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
 Saint Petersburg State University

Conference Chairs
Alexander Marchuk
A.P. Ershov Institute of Informatics Systems, Novosibirsk, Russua

Andrey Terekhov
Saint Petersburg State University, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Steering Committee

Dines Bjorner
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark

Manfred Broy,
Technische Universität München, Germany

Victor Ivannikov
Institute for System Programming RAS, Moscow, Russia

Ugo Montanari
University of Pisa, Italy