ABZ Conference 2010 - Workshop on Tool Building in Formal Methods ABZ Conference

Workshop on Tool Building in Formal Methods

Held in conjunction with the 2nd International ABZ Conference

Orford, Quebec, Canada, Monday 22 February 2010

Call For Papers (PDF)

Scope of the Workshop

The object of this workshop is to share ideas, methods, and processes that are used to build tools supporting formal methods. Discussions may also deal with maintenance, documentation, licensing, etc. A significant challenge is how to better make these tools cooperate and share components (provers, model checkers, syntax analysers, type checkers, transformation rules, etc.).

The topics of interest for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

Experience on the development of tools supporting formal methods:
specification and design,
choice of implementation languages and operating systems,
reuse of existing components and platforms,
documentation.
Scalability of tools: research prototypes vs industrial strength tools
Open source issues:
open-platform for developing and sharing tool components (management of distributed teams, consistency),
dealing with intellectual property: dissemination of research results vs intellectual property policies.
Development in an academic environment:
limited resources,
rapid resource turnover,
maintenance and support.
Commercialization, licensing
Tool certification
Important Dates:

Paper submission deadline: 15 November 2009
Notification of acceptance/rejection: 7 December 2009
Workshop in Orford, Quebec, Canada: 22 February 2010
Submission and Attendance:

We anticipate a rich exchange of ideas and discussions during this event. Submissions are welcomed on any subject that falls within the main issues. Papers should be around 3 pages in LNCS style.

All papers must be submitted in PDF format, following the instructions at the WS-TBFM'10 submission site, handled by EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=wstbfm201...

All accepted papers should be presented during the 1-day workshop.

We are negotiating the publication of extended versions of selected workshop papers in a special issue of an international journal.

Workshop chairs:

Frédéric Gervais, Université Paris-Est, France
Benoît Fraikin, Université de Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada
Program Committee:

Yamine Ait Ameur, LISI/ENSMA, France
Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Daniel Dollé, Siemens Transportation Systems, France
Roozbeh Farahbod, Faculty of Business, University of Victoria, Canada
Hubert Garavel, INRIA/VASY, France
Akram Idani, LIG, France
Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Kim Larsen, Computer Science, Aalborg U, Denmark
Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France
Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Petra Malik, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Amel Mammar, Telecom SudParis, France
Marcel Oliveira, DIMAp, Univ. Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil
Fabien Peureux, LIFC, Université de Franche-Comté, France
Aryldo G Russo Jr., Grupo AeS, Brazil