Objectives
The aim of the symposium is to bring together international researchers and practitioners in the field of software technology. Its focus is on formal methods and advanced software technologies, especially for engineering complex, large-scale artifacts like cyber-physical systems, networks of things, enterprise systems, or cloud-based services. Contributions relating to formal methods or integrating them with software engineering, as well as papers advancing scalability or widening the scope of rigorous methods to new design goals are especially welcome. SETTA 2017 is planning to organize a special thematic section, namely Dependability of Smart Cyber-Physical Systems.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
. Requirements specification and analysis
. Formalisms for modeling, design and implementation
. Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
. Scalable approaches to formal system analysis
. Formal approaches to simulation and testing
. Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice
. Contract-based engineering of components, systems, and systems of systems
. Formal and engineering aspects of software evolution and maintenance
. Parallel and multi-core programming
. Embedded, real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
. Mixed-critical applications and systems
. Formal aspects of service-oriented and cloud computing
. Safety, security, reliability, robustness, and fault-tolerance
. Dependability of smart software and systems
. Empirical analysis techniques and integration with formal methods
. Applications and industrial experience reports
. Tool integration

Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers on original research, industrial applications, or position papers proposing challenges in fundamental research and technology. The latter two types of submissions are expected to contribute to the development of formal methods either by substantiating the advantages of integrating formal methods into the development cycle or through delineating need for research by demonstrating weaknesses of existing technologies, especially when addressing new application domains.

Submissions can take the form of either regular or short papers. Short papers can discuss ongoing research at an early stage, including PhD projects. Papers should be written in English. Regular Papers should not exceed 16 pages and Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages in LNCS format. The proceedings will be published as a volume in Springer's LNCS series, www.springer.com/lncs. The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers to appear in special issues of the reputable journals.

The submission webpage is: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=setta2017


Organizers
General chair:
. Xiangke Liao, National University of Defense Technology, China

Program Chairs:
. Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
. Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
. Ji Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China

Publicity Chair:
. Fu Song, ShanghaiTech University, China

Local Organization Chair:
. Wei Dong, National University of Defense Technology, China

PC Members:
. Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
. Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, Netherlands
. Sanjoy Baruah, University of North Carolina, USA
. Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK
. Yunxin Deng, ECNU, China
. Deepak D'Souza, Indian Institute of Science, India
. Xinyu Feng, University of Science and Technology of China, China
. Martin Fraenzle, University of Oldenburg, Germany
. Goran Frehse, University of Grenoble Alpes-Laboratoire Verimag, France
. Lindsay Groves, University of Wellington, New Zealand
. Dimitar Guelev, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria
. Fei He, Tsinghua University, China
. Deepak Kapur, University of New Mexico, USA
. Kim Larsen, University of Aalborg, Denmark
. Axel Legay, IRISA/INRIA, France
. Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China
. Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan
. Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China
. Xiaoguang Mao, NUDT, China
. Markus Muller-Olm, Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster, Germany
. Raja Natarajan, TIFR, India
. Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
. Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK
. Stefan Ratschan, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech
. Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, USA
. Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
. Martin Steffen, University of Oslo, Norway
. Zhendong Su, UC Davis, USA
. Cong Tian, Xidian University, China
. Tarmo Uustalu, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
. Chao Wang, University of Southern California, USA
. Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, ROC
. Ji Wang, NUDT, China.
. Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany
. Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA
. Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden
. Naijun Zhan, ISCAS, China
. Lijun Zhang, ISCAS, China
. Haibo Zeng, Virginia Tech University, USA


Contact email: setta2017@ios.ac.cn