Dear colleagues,
Apologies for cross-posting. Please forward to colleagues who might be 
interested.

Thankfully,
Ricardo

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SaFoMe 2014 - CALL FOR PAPERS

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1st International Workshop on Safety and Formal Methods
SaFoMe 2014
Co-located with the 12th International Conference on Software Engineering and 
Formal Methods, http://sefm2014.inria.fr/

September 1-5, 2014,
Grenoble, France

Web: http://babel.ls.fi.upm.es/safome2014/
For more information: [email protected]
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*** IMPORTANT DATES ***
Abstract Submission: April 11, 2014
Paper Submission: April 18, 2014
Notification of Acceptance: June 13, 2014
Camera-ready Paper Due: June 30, 2014

*** OVERVIEW ***

In many domains, including for example automotive and construction equipment, 
avionics, and railway, there is a need to enhance the quality of services 
(QoS) of strategic industrial products while also reducing the risk of 
fatalities and injuries. To achieve this, cost-efficient processes and methods 
supporting the development and operation of safety enabling embedded systems 
are needed, as recognized by Artemis Industrial Association in their call for 
projects (see http://www.artemis-ju.eu/).

Several approaches have been proposed to achieve this, among them Component-
Based Development (CBD) approaches have been identified as suitable to improve 
both reuse and the maintainability of systems. Many of these used the concept 
of a contract, which describes what an artifact interface provides and what it 
expects from other artifacts. During system composition contracts are compared 
to determine compatibility. The majority of this work has concentrated on the 
functional properties of systems. Most of the work has been conducted to 
analyse the functional properties of systems. However, much less work has 
considered how CBD can be applied to other non-functional properties, 
including dependability properties such as safety, reliability, performance 
and availability.

Formal methods have traditionally been advocated for improving the reliability 
of safety-relevant systems. The SaFoMe workshop aims to provide a forum for 
people from academia and industry to communicate their latest results on 
theoretical advances, industrial case studies, and lessons learned in the 
application of formal methods to safety certification, verification and/or 
validation in (but not limited to) component-based systems.

*** TOPICS OF INTEREST ***

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Formal methods for fault-tolerant and secure systems.
* Formal methods for real-time and embedded safety-critical systems.
* Formal methods for safety-critical component-based systems and their 
certification.
* Formal methods in the verification and validation of safety-critical software 
systems.
* Applications of formal methods in the context of industrial safety-critical 
case studies.
* Formal methods for the safety in Internet of Things (IoT).
* Specification, verification, and validation of safety contracts by means of 
(semi)formal methods.
* Contract-based design and verification of safety-critical embedded systems.
* Formal methods for safety assessment.
* Formal methods for reuse of safety-critical software components.

*** PROGRAMME COMMITTEE ***
Clara Benac Earle. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain (co-chair)
Simona Bernardi. Centro Universitario de Defensa, Zaragoza, Spain.
Jan Carlson. Malardalen University, Sweden.
David García Rosado. Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.
Christophe Gaston. Institut CARNOT CEA LIST, France.
Elena Gómez-Martínez. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
Hans Hansson. Malardalen University, Sweden. (co-chair)
José Merseguer. Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain.
Sasikumar Punnekkat. Malardalen University, Sweden.
Nicolas Rapin. Institut CARNOT CEA LIST, France.
Ricardo J. Rodríguez. Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
Fernando Rosa-Velardo. Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.
Stefano Tonetta. Fondazione Bruno Kressler, Italy.
Catia Trubiani. Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy.
Xavier Zeitoun. Institut CARNOT CEA LIST, France.

*** SUBMISSION ***
Accepted papers will be jointly included in the proceedings of the SEFM 
conference. PDF versions of papers should be submitted trough EasyChair 
submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=safome2014). 
Papers must be written in English and the maximum size is 15 pages using the 
LNCS Formatting Guidelines. If you submit a paper and it gets accepted, at 
least one of the (co)author(s) is expected to be present at the workshop to 
present the paper. All papers submitted to the workshop must be unpublished 
original work and should not be under review or submitted elsewhere while 
being under consideration.

The paper selection process will be peer review and based on relevance, 
quality and originality of the submitted papers.

Extended versions of selected papers will be invited to submit to a Special 
Issue in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part O: 
Journal of Risk and Reliability (SAGE, print ISSN: 1748-006X).

-- 
Ricardo J. Rodríguez
    Grupo BABEL
    Dpto. de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos e Ingeniería de Software
    Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Informáticos
    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
    Tel: (+34) 91 336 50 17
    Fax: (+34) 91 336 36 69

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