FoSSaCS 2010 - FoSSaCS 2010 13th International Conference on FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE SCIENCE AND COMPUTATION STRUCTURES

FoSSaCS 2010

13th International Conference on
FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE SCIENCE AND COMPUTATION STRUCTURES
A member conference of the European Joint Conferences
on Theory and Practice of Software
(ETAPS 2010)

March 20 - 28, 2010, Paphos, Cyprus

Call for papers | Important dates | Submission guidelines | Programme Committee | Invited Speaker

FoSSaCS is a member conference of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS), which is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS 2010 is the 13th joint conference in this series and will be held in Paphos, Cyprus. The prior conferences have been ETAPS 1998 in Lisbon, ETAPS 1999 in Amsterdam, ETAPS 2000 in Berlin, ETAPS 2001 in Genova, ETAPS 2002 in Grenoble, ETAPS 2003 in Warsaw, ETAPS 2004 in Barcelona, ETAPS 2005 in Edinburgh, ETAPS 2006 in Vienna, ETAPS 2007 in Minho, ETAPS 2008 in Budapest, and ETAPS 2009 in York.

CALL FOR PAPERS

FOSSACS seeks original papers on foundational research with a clear significance for software science. The conference invites submissions on theories and methods to support the analysis, integration, synthesis, transformation, and verification of programs and software systems. The specific topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

Algebraic models,
Automata and language theory,
Behavioural equivalences,
Categorical models,
Computation processes over discrete and continuous data,
Infinite state systems,
Computation structures,
Logics of programs,
Modal, spatial, and temporal logics,
Models of concurrent, reactive, distributed, and mobile systems,
Process algebras and calculi,
Semantics of programming languages,
Software specification and refinement,
Type systems and type theory.
Fundamentals of security
Semi-structured data
Program correctness and verification
As FoSSaCS addresses a heterogeneous audience, potential authors are strongly encouraged to write about their ideas and findings in general and jargon-independent, rather than in application- and domain-specific, terms.
IMPORTANT DATES

ETAPS 2010 conferences and other satellite events will be held March 20-28, 2010.

As a part of ETAPS, FoSSaCS adheres to ETAPS submission and notification deadlines:

Thursday, October 1, 2009
Submission of abstracts
Thursday, October 8, 2009 ( Samoa time, GMT-11)
Strict deadline for submission of full versions.
Friday, December 11, 2009
Notification of acceptance
Monday, January 4, 2010
Camera-ready paper versions due
March 22-28, 2010
FoSSaCS 2010 Conference
The paper submission deadline is STRICT. Making the deadline for submission of abstracts a week early allows the programme committee to start work before full versions are available. Obviously, there is no need to wait with submission of the full version until the final deadline.

Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the final deadline will be treated as withdrawn, but authors are strongly encouraged, in this case, to explicitly withdraw their submission by sending an e-mail to the chairman.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Research papers cover one or more of the topics above and are evaluated by the FoSSaCS Program Committee. Submitted research papers must:

be in English and have a maximum of 15 pages (including figures and bibliography). Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit,
present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere (conferences, journals, books,...) -- in particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden.
use the Springer-Verlag LNCS style.
be submitted electronically in PDF via the EasyChair FoSSaCS 2010 Conference Service
Submissions deviating from these instructions may be rejected without review. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Final papers will be in the format specified by Springer-Verlag. Please note that FOSSACS does not accept tool demonstration papers. Any questions regarding the submission guidelines should be directed to the Program Committee Chair Luke Ong prior to submitting.

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIR

Luke Ong, University of Oxford
INVITED SPEAKER

Colin Stirling, University of Edinburgh
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Andreas Abel, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich
Christel Baier, University of Dresden
Patrick Baillot, ENS Lyon
Mikolaj Bojanczyk, University of Warsaw
Patricia Bouyer, ENS Cachan
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria
Hubert Comon, ENS Cachan
Thierry Coquand, Göteborg University
Herman Geuvers, Radboud University Nijmegen
Masahito Hasegawa, Kyoto University
Ranko Lazic, University of Warwick
John Longley, University of Edinburgh
Carsten Lutz, University of Bremen
Guy McCusker, University of Bath
Angelo Montanari, University of Udine
Markus Muller-Olm, University of Muenster
Rocco De Nicola, University of Firenze
Luke Ong, University of Oxford
Jens Palsberg, University of California at Los Angeles
Dusko Pavlovic, Kestrel Institute and University of Oxford
Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania
Alexander Rabinovich, University of Tel Aviv
Jan Rutten, CWI and Free University Amsterdam
Makoto Tatsuta, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo