[agents] EXTENDED DEADLINE : UML&FM'2011

[Isabelle Perseil]

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                   CALL FOR PAPERS :  UML&FM’2011
            4th INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON UML&FORMAL METHODS
          http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/UML-FM-2011.html

               Workshop held in conjunction with FM 2011
                   The 17th International Symposium on
                            Formal Methods
                      http://sites.lero.ie/fm2011
                            june 20th, 2011
                            Limerick, Ireland
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                     Extended Submission deadline: April 30th, 2011
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Many interest groups from a research perspective are in favour of the
creation of this workshop.

For more than a decade now, the two communities of UML and formal methods
have been working together to produce a simultaneously practical (via UML)
and rigorous (via formal methods) approach to software engineering.

UML is the de facto standard for modelling various aspects of software
systems in both industry and academia, despite the inconvenience that its
current specification is complex and its syntax imprecise.

The fact that the UML semantics is too informal have led many researchers
to formalize it with all kinds of existing formal languages, like OCL, Z,
B, CSP, VDM, Petri Nets, UPPAAL, HOL, Coq, PVS etc.

This fourth edition of the workshop will be open to various subjects as
the main objective is to encourage new initiatives of building bridges
between informal, semi-formal and formal notations.


Topics:
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This workshop seeks contributions from researchers and practitioners
interested in all aspects of integrating UML and formal methods. To this
end, we solicit papers (no more than 8 pages long) related to, but not
limited to, the following principal topics:

·        Consistent specifications, model transformations (QVT technologies,
         transformation repositories). Transformations to make models more
         analyzable so as to make them executable.

·        Automation of traceability through transformations

·        Refinement techniques: developing detailed design from a UML
         abstract specification

·        Refinement of OCL specification as well

·        Formal reasoning on models for code generation

·        Technologies for compositional verification of models

·        Specification of a formal semantics for the UML.
         Giving an abstract syntax to UML diagrams

·        Formal validation and verification of software

·        Co-modeling methods formal/informal mapping techniques

·        End-to-end methodologies or software process
         engineering,correct-by-construction design providing and
         supporting tools for safety-critical embedded systems design


Workshop Format
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This full-day workshop will consist of an introduction of the topic by the
workshop organizers, presentations of accepted papers, and in depth
discussion of previously identified subjects emerging from the
submissions. A summary of the discussions will be made available.


Submission and Publication
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To contribute, please send a position paper or a technical paper at:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=umlfm2011

Papers should not exceed 8 pages . Submitted manuscripts should be in
English and formatted in the style of the ISSE Format. Please, follow the
guidelines at the "For authors and editors" heading in the ISSE website

All accepted papers will be published in a special issue of ISSE NASA
journal (Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering).

Slides will be made available through the workshop website.



IMPORTANT DATES
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Submission deadline:              April 30th, 2011
All Notification of acceptance:   May 20th,   2011
Camera ready copy :               June 15th,  2011
Workshop date :                   June 20th,  2011
Final copy for ISSE proceedings : Sept 01st,  2011

Organizers
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Organizational sponsors :

OMG      (http://www.omg.org/)
ARTIST   (http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/)


Organizers and Programme Steering committee:

- Jean-Michel Bruel (Liuppa, France)
- Robert de Simone (INRIA, France)
- Sébastien Gérard (CEA-LIST, France)
- Paul Gibson (Telecom SudParis, France)
- Isabelle Perseil (Inserm, France)

IEEE CS Coordinator:
Mike Hinchey (Lero and NASA GSFC , Ireland)

PC Chairs:
- Paul Gibson (Telecom SudParis, France)
- Isabelle Perseil (Inserm, France)

Program Committee:
- Lukman Ab Rahim (Lancaster University, United Kingdom)
- Nazareno Aguirre (Universidad Nacional de Río Cuarto, Argentina)
- Marc Aiguier (Ecole Centrale Paris, France)
- Yamine Ait Ameur (LISI / ENSMA, France)
- Pascal André (LINA, University of Nantes, France)
- Luciano Baresi (Politecnico di Milano, Italia)
- Kamel Barkaoui (CEDRIC-CNAM, France)
- Jean-Paul Bodeveix (IRIT, France)
- Jean-Michel Bruel (IRIT, France)
- Alexandre Cabral Mota (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
- Agusti Canals (CS, France)
- David Clark(University College London, United Kingdom)
- Vincent Englebert (University of Namur, Belgium)
- Huascar Espinoza (Tecnalia, Spain)
- Mamoun Filali (IRIT, France)
- Sébastien Gérard (CEA-LIST, France)
- Frederic Gervais (Université Paris-Est, LACL, France)
- Paul Gibson (Telecom SudParis, France)
- Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen, Germany)
- Jérôme Hugues (ISAE, France)
- Stephen J.Mellor (Accelerated Technologies, Tucson AZ, USA)
- Paul Krause (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
- Kevin Lano (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
- Manuel Mazzara (Newcastle University, United Kingdom)
- Sun Meng (Peking University, China)
- Dominique Mery (LORIA, France)
- Elie Najm (Telecom ParisTech, France)
- Kazuhiro Ogata (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
- Isabelle Perseil (Inserm, France)
- Dorina Petriu (Carlton University, USA)
- Fiona Polack (University of York, United Kingdom)
- Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, United Kingdom)
- Arend Rensink (University of Twente, Netherlands)
- Thomas Robert (Telecom ParisTech, France)
- Douglas Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA)
- Pierre-Yves Schobbens (University of Namur, Belgium)
- Bran Selic (Malina Software Corp, Canada)
- Françoise Simonot Lion (LORIA, France)
- Volker Stolz (United Nations University, Norway)
- Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
- Jun Suzuki (University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA)
- Bedir Tekinerdogan (Bilkent University, Turkey)
- Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya (Osaka University, Japan)
- Naoyasu Ubayashi (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Stefan Van Baelen (Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium)
- Tullio Vardanega (University of Padua, Italia)
- François Vernadat (CNRS-LAAS, France)
- Eugenio Villar (Universidad de Cantabria, Spain)
- Tim Weilkiens (OOSE Innovative Informatik, Germany)
- Sergio Yovine (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)