FORTE 2014 - 34th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems

FORTE 2014 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems.The conference solicits original contributions that advance the science and technologies for distributed systems, with special interest in the areas of:
component- and model-based design;
object technology, modularity, software adaptation;
service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and mobile computing systems;
software quality, reliability, availability, and safety;
security, privacy, and trust in distributed systems;
adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization;
self-healing/organizing;
verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of the above.
Contributions that combine theory and practice and that exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present novel solutions to problems arising from the development of distributed systems are encouraged. FORTE covers distributed computing models and formal specification, testing and verification methods. The application domains include all kinds of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as networking and communication security and reliability. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Languages and semantic foundations: new modeling and language concepts for distribution and concurrency, semantics for different types of languages, including programming languages, modeling languages, and domain-specific languages; real-time and probability aspects; type systems and behavioral typing;
Formal methods and techniques: design, specification, analysis, verification, validation, testing and runtime verification of various types of distributed systems including communications and network protocols, service-oriented systems, adaptive distributed systems, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks;
Foundations of security: new principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis of distributed systems, including formal models based on probabilistic concepts;
Applications of formal methods: applying formal methods and techniques for studying quality, reliability, availability, and safety of distributed systems;
Practical experience with formal methods: industrial applications, case studies and software tools for applying formal methods and description techniques to the development and analysis of real distributed systems.
Important dates
Abstract Submission:
February 1, 2014
Paper Submission:
February 7, 2014
Author Notification:
March 10, 2014
Camera-ready version:
March 24, 2014
Early registration:
May 5, 2014
Conference and workshops:
June 3-6 2014
The time of all deadlines is 24:00 SST (UTC-11, Samoa Standard Time). The submission deadlines are strict, there will be no extension.
Submission and publication
Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's codes of conduct). The submissions must not exceed 15 pages in length, including figures and references, prepared using Springer's LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review.
Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE'14 interface of the EasyChair system. Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers.
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS Series.
Invited speakers
Frank Leymann (University of Stuttgart, Germany)
Marten van Steen (VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Joachim Parrow (Uppsala University, Sweden)
PC Chairs
Erika Ábrahám (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France)
Programme Committee
Myrto Arapinis (University of Edinbourgh, UK)
Pedro R. D'Argenio (University of Córdoba, Argentina)
Paul C. Attie (University of Texas at Austin, USA and American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Dirk Beyer (University of Passau, Germany)
Frank de Boer (LIACS/CWI, The Netherlands)
Michele Boreale (Univeristy of Florence, Italy)
Johannes Borgström (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy)
Yuxin Deng (Shanghai Jiaotong University, China)
Yliès Falcone (University of Grenoble, France)
Daniele Gorla (University of Roma, Italy)
Susanne Graf (CNRS/VERIMAG, France)
Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland)
Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL, USA)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Axel Legay (IRISA/INRIA at Rennes, France)
Jay Ligatti (University of of South Florida, USA)
Antonia Lopes (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Sjouke Mauw (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University, Australia)
Sebastian Mödersheim (Technical University of Denmark)
Peter Csaba Ölveczky (University of Oslo, Norway)
Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Anna Philippou (University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
Sanjiva Prasad (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India)
Sophie Quinton (TU Braunschweig, Germany)
Ana Sokolowa (University of Salzburg, Austria)
Mariëlle Stoelinga (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Steering Committee
Dirk Beyer (University of Passau, Germany)
Frank de Boer (LIACS/CWI, The Netherlands)
Michele Boreale (University of Florence, Italy)
Roberto Bruni (University of Pisa, Italy)
Juergen Dingel (Queens's University, Canada)
Holger Giese (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo, Norway)
Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France)
Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany)