[agents] CfP: Workshop on Formal Approaches to Ubiquitous Systems ...

[Brian Logan]

Call for participation

Workshop on Formal Approaches to Ubiquitous Systems (FAUSt 2009)
Imperial College London, 14-15 September 2009
http://www.agents.cs.nott.ac.uk/events/faust09/

A key challenge in ubiquitous computing is identifying and developing  
appropriate formal approaches for understanding, designing and  
implementing ubiquitous systems. However applications which must  
interact with heterogeneous devices in multiple contexts and/or whose  
implementation may span multiple devices with widely differing  
resource constraints pose significant difficulties for current  
analysis, design and verification methodologies. While some of these  
issues have been addressed in previous work, their combination and  
interaction presents significant new challenges.

The two day workshop aims to bring together researchers from the  
ubiquitous computing and formal methods communities to determine how  
the current state of the art in formal methods can be applied to  
ubiquitous computing, and to map out key research questions and future  
directions for formal approaches to ubiquitous systems.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* what sorts of (formal) system properties are of interest to the  
ubicomp community;
* what sorts of formal models and techniques are appropriate for  
modelling context, mobility and resource constraints;
* which verification techniques are appropriate for ubiquitous systems

The programme features a mixture of invited talks and submitted  
contributions describing current work or work in progress in  
ubiquitous computing; applications of formal analysis to some aspect  
of ubiquitous computing or similar systems (e.g. verification of  
sensor networks); and other formal approaches which are likely to be  
relevant (e.g., logics of resource bounds, context logics,  
verification of mobile or real time systems). In addition, there will  
be a panel session to identify possible synergies (and collaborations)  
in current work and to map out key questions for future research.

Invited Speakers

Muffy Calder (University of Glasgow)
Michael Fisher (University of Liverpool)
Marta Kwiatkowska (University of Oxford)
Derek McAulay (University of Nottingham / University of Cambridge)
Robin Milner (University of Edinburgh / University of Cambridge)
Alessandra Russo (Imperial College London)

A provisional programme is available on the workshop web page:
http://www.agents.cs.nott.ac.uk/events/faust09/faust-programme.html

Registration
Registration is £40.00 (includes lunch and tea/coffee on the 14th and  
15th). Limited bursaries are available for UK PhD students with an  
accepted abstract. Registration forms are available on the workshop  
web page: http://www.agents.cs.nott.ac.uk/events/faust09/#registration

Workshop Organisers:

Natasha Alechina (University of Nottingham)
Brian Logan (University of Nottingham)





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