FORTE 2012 - 32th IFIP International Conference on FORmal TEchniques for Networked and Distributed Systems

Call for Papers
FMOODS & FORTE 2012
IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems
joint international conference
14th Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems
32nd Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems
part of the federated event
DisCoTec'12 (Distributed Computing Techniques)
Stockholm, Sweden, 13-16 June 2012
http://lucan.sics.se/discotec/?q=fmoodsforte
fmoodsforte2012-AT-easychair.org

Important dates
* February 20, 2012 Abstract Submission (extended)
* February 27, 2012 Paper Submission (extended)
* March 26, 2012 Notification of Acceptance
* April 9, 2012 Camera ready version
* June 14-15, 2012 Conference

Objectives and Scope
The joint conference FMOODS & FORTE is a forum for fundamental
research on theory and applications of 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, safety and security
* adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization, self-healing/organizing
* verification, validation, formal analysis and testing of the above
The conference encourages 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. FMOODS & 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, and adaptive
distributed systems
* Applications of Formal Methods: applying formal methods and
techniques for studying quality, reliability, availability, safety and
security 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

Proceedings and Submission guidelines
The FMOODS & FORTE 2012 conference calls for high quality papers presenting
research results and/or application reports related to the research areas in
conference scope.
Like in the past, the conference proceedings will be published by Springer
in the LNCS Series. Proceedings will be made available at the conference.
All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication
elsewhere. Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF via the
EasyChair system at the URL
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmoodsf...
Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3 anonymous reviewers.
The papers must be prepared using the SPRINGER LNCS style, available at the URL
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-...
Research papers, experience reports as well as tool or system description
papers are all encouraged. Papers must not exceed 15 pages in length,
including figures and references. For referees' convenience, any additional
material that may help assessing the merits of the submission but not to be
included in the final version, like some detailed proofs, may be placed in a
clearly marked appendix (not to be counted in the page limit). Referees can
ignore the appendix, and papers must be understandable without them.
Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected
immediately, without review.

Programme Committee
- Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- Saddek Bensalem, University Joseph Fourier, France
- Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany
- Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy
- John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK
- Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
- José Luiz Fiadeiro, University of Leicester, UK
- Robert France, Colorado State University, USA
- Holger Giese (co-chair), Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
- Susanne Graf, Universite Joseph Fourier / CNRS / VERIMAG, France
- Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL, USA
- Mark Hills, CWI, The Netherlands
- Gerard Holzmann, NASA/JPL, USA
- Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Alexander Knapp, Augsburg University, Germany
- Antonia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Dorel Lucanu, University of Iasi, Romania
- Peter Mueller, ETH, Switzerland
- Uwe Nestmann, Technical University of Berlin, Germany
- Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
- Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University. Israel
- Patrizio Pelliccione, University of L'Aquila, Italia
- Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM Montreal, Canada
- Arend Rensink, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Grigore Rosu (co-chair), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
- Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Vlad Rusu, Inria Lille Nord, France
- Ketil Stølen, University of Oslo, Norway
- Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany
- Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota
- Elena Zucca, University of Genova, Italy

Steering Committee
- Gregor v. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada
- Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa, Italy
- John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK
- Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Kingston, Canada
- Roberto Gorrieri, University of Bologna, Italy
- John Hatcliff, Kansas State University, USA
- David Lee, The Ohio State University, USA
- Antonia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
- Elie Najm (chair), Telecom ParisTech, France
- Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
- Antonio Ravara, New Univ of Lisbon, Portugal
- Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, USA
- Ken Turner, University of Stirling, UK
- Elena Zucca, University of Genova, Italy

Contact Information
fmoodsforte2012-AT-easychair.org