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+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | C A L L F O R P A P E R S | | | | | | 24th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference on | | Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems | | | | | | F O R T E 2 0 0 4 | | | | | | September 27-30, 2004, Madrid, Spain | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | Submission of papers: March 15, 2004 | | Author notification: May 20, 2004 | | Camera-ready copy: June 15, 2004 | |--------------------------------------------------------------------| | http://antares.sip.ucm.es/%7Eforte2004 fernando@sip.ucm.es | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Dear Colleagues,
we kindly invite you to submit papers, tutorials and tool descriptions to FORTE'04. The IFIP TC6 WG 6.1 Joint International Conference on Formal Techniques for Networked and Distributed Systems (FORTE) is focused on formal methods for communication protocols. FORTE is the new name of the joint FORTE/PSTV meeting, which has combined FORTE and PSTV into a single joint meeting since 1997.
This year three workshops will be colocated with FORTE'04. These workshops will take place the 1st and 2nd of October in Toledo, a nice historical city located 100 kilometres to the south of Madrid. Free transportation from Madrid will be provided by the organization.
Scope and Objectives --------------------
Forte denotes a series of international working conferences on formal description techniques (FDTs) applied to computer networks and distributed systems. The conference series started in 1981 under the name PSTV. In 1988 a second series under the name FORTE was set up. Both series were united to FORTE / PSTV in 1996. Three years ago the conference changed the name to its current form. FORTE provides a forum for researchers and users to review, discuss, and learn about new approaches, concepts, and experiences in the field of formal description techniques and their application.
The 24rd FORTE conference will be held in Madrid. It is organized by the Departamento de Sistemas Informticos y Programacin at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. FORTE 2004 is especially dedicated to the application of formal description techniques to practice, especially in the Internet domain. The conference will consist of tutorial sessions on the first day, followed by presentations of reviewed and invited papers, tool demonstrations, and panel and working sessions.
Topics of Interest ------------------
FORTE'04 will provide a forum for researchers and users to review, discuss, and learn about new approaches, concepts and experiences in the application of formal methods such as finite state machines, process algebras, Petri nets and logics and formal description techniques including SDL, UML, LOTOS, MSC, ASN.I, and others. Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
* Use of formal methods: FDT based design of communication protocols and distributed systems especially for Internet applications, Formal verification, Performance modeling and analysis, Automatically derived implementations, Test of distributed systems and communication protocols including interoperability tests, performance tests, robustness tests, and test generation procedures, Tool support. * Theoretical aspects of formal methods:New approaches and theories, Extensions of FDTs, Semantic foundations, Real-time and probability aspects. * Practical experience with formal methods:Reports and case studies of the deployment of formal methods and FDTs to the development and validation of distributed systems and communication protocols, in particular in Internet and communication domains.
We strongly encourage the submission of papers with practical applications especially in the areas of multimedia applications, wireless and mobile communication protocols, client/server applications, secure systems/environments, e-business and mobile commerce, and other Internet applications.
Submission policy and publication ---------------------------------
Several types of contributions are solicited:
* Full papers - research or practice results ( up to 16 pages ) * Tutorial proposals * Work in progress papers ( up to 5 pages ) * Tool demonstration proposals
Only original papers, i.e. not submitted nor published elsewhere, should be submitted. Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format using the web page that will be available nearer the deadline.
All accepted full papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science series of Springer. Work in progress papers will be published in a separate volume at the conference. To facilitate the production of the final proceedings we strongly recommend submissions to follow the LNCS style.
Best Paper Award ----------------
There will be a best paper award (500 euros) offered by IFIP TC6 for the author(s) of the best paper selected during the reviewing process.
Steering Committee ------------------
* G. v. Bochmann, University of Ottawa, Canada * E. Brinksma, University of Twente, The Netherlands * S. Budkowski, INT Evry, France * G. Leduc, University of Liege, Belgium * E. Najm, ENST, France * K. Turner, University of Stirling, United Kingdom
Program Committee -----------------
* G.v. Bochmann, Univ. of Ottawa, Canada * T. Bolognesi, IEI Pisa, Italy * M. Bravetti, University of Bologna, Italy * A. Cavalli, INT Evry, France * J.P. Courtiart, LAAS Toulouse, France * D. de Frutos-Escrig, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (co-chair) * R. Dssouli, Concordia University Montreal, Canada * R. Gotzhein, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany * H. Hermanns, Saarland University, Germany * T. Higashino, Osaka University, Japan * D. Hogrefe, University of Gttingen, Germany * G. J. Holzmann, Bell Labs, USA * C. Jard, IRISA, France * M. Kim, ICU Taejon, Korea * H. Knig, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany * M. Koutny, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom * G. Leduc, Univ. of Liege, Belgium * D. Lee, Bell Labs, China * E. Najm, ENST, France * M. Nunez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (co-chair) * D. A. Peled, University of Warwick, United Kingdom * A. Petrenko, CRIM Montreal, Canada * K. Suzuki, Advanced Communication Coop., Japan * K. Turner, Univ. of Stirling, United Kingdom * H. Ural, University of Ottawa, Canada * U. Uyar, City University of New York, USA * V. Valero, Universidad Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * F. Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan * J. Wu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China * N. Yevtushenko, Tomsk State University, Russia
Colocated Workshops -------------------
Three workshops will be colocated with FORTE 2004. These workshops will not take place in Madrid, but in Toledo, a nice historical city located 100 kilometres to the south of Madrid. Free transportation from Madrid will be provided by the organization.
* ITM2004 1st International Workshop on Integration of Testing Methodologies http://antares.sip.ucm.es/%7Eforte2004/itm2004/ * EPEW2004 1st European Performance Engineering Workshop http://www.info-ab.uclm.es/epew2004/ * TheFormEMC 1st International Workshop on Theory Building and Formal Methods in Electronic/Mobile Commerce http://wi2.wiwi.uni-augsburg.de/mobile/TheFormEMC2004.php