[agents] Last Mile, June 4 | VALID 2014 || October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France

[Cristina Pascual]

INVITATION:
 
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 Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to VALID 2014.
 The submission deadline has been extended to June 4, 2014.
 Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org
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============== VALID 2014 | Call for Papers ===============
 
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS
 
VALID 2014, The Sixth International Conference on Advances in System Testing and Validation Lifecycle
 
October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France
 

General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/VALID14.html
 
Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPVALID14.html
 
Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitVALID14.html
 
CONTRIBUTIONS TYPES
 
    regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library]
     short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library]
     ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
     extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
     posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library]
     posters: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
     presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
     demos: two pages [posted on www.iaria.org]
     doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library]
 
Proposals for:
 
    symposia: [in the proceedings, digital library]
     workshops: [in the proceedings, digital library]
     tutorials: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
     panels: [slide-deck posted on www.iaria.org]
 

Submission deadline: June 4, 2014
 
Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org
 Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals:  http://www.iariajournals.org
 Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html
 Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org
 
The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas.
 
All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels.
 
Before submission, please check and comply with the editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html
 

VALID 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site)
 
Robust design methodologies
 Designing methodologies for robust systems; Secure software techniques; Industrial real-time software; Defect avoidance; Cost models for robust systems; Design for testability; Design for reliability and variability; Design for adaptation and resilience; Design for fault-tolerance and fast recovery; Design for manufacturability, yield and reliability; Design for testability in the context of model-driven engineering
 
Vulnerability discovery and resolution
 Vulnerability assessment; On-line error detection; Vulnerabilities in hardware security; Self-calibration; Alternative inspections; Non-intrusive vulnerability discovery methods; Embedded malware detection
 
Defects and Debugging
 Debugging techniques; Component debug; System debug; Software debug; Hardware debug; System debug; Power-ground defects; Full-open defects in interconnecting lines; Physical defects in memories and microprocessors; Zero-defect principles
 
Diagnosis
 Diagnosis techniques; Advances in silicon debug and diagnosis; Error diagnosis; History-based diagnosis; Multiple-defect diagnosis; Optical diagnostics; Testability and diagnosability; Diagnosis and testing in mo bile environments
 
System and feature testing
 Test strategy for systems-in-package; Testing embedded systems; Testing high-speed systems; Testing delay and performance; Testing communication traffic and QoS/SLA metrics; Testing robustness; Software testing; Hardware testing; Supply-chain testing; Memory testing; Microprocessor testing; Mixed-signal production test; Testing multi-voltage domains; Interconnection and compatibility testing; SAT procedures for application to testing and formal verification
 
Testing techniques and mechanisms
 Fundamentals for digital and analog testing; Emerging testing methodologies; Engineering test coverage; Designing testing suites; Statistical testing; Functional testing; Parametric testing; Defect- and data-driven testing; Automated testing; Embedded testing; Autonomous self-testing; Low cost testing; Optimized testing; Testing systems and devices; Test standards
 
Testing of wireless communications systems
 Testing of mobile wireless communication systems; Testing of wireless sensor networks; Testing of radio-frequency identification systems; Testing of ad-hoc networks; Testing methods for emerging standards; Hardware-based prototyping of wireless communication systems; Physical layer performance verification; On-chip testing of wireless communication systems; Modeling and simulation of wireless channels; Noise characterization and validation; Case studies and industrial applications of test instruments;
 
Software verification and validation
 High-speed interface verification and fault-analysis; Software testing theory and practice; Model-based testing; Verification metrics; Service/application specific testing; Model checking; OO software testing; Testing embedded software; Quality assurance; Empirical studies for verification and validation; Software inspection techniques; Software testing tools; New approaches for software reliability verification and validation
 
Quality-assessment of software architectures and legacy systems
 Quality-Assessment of Software Architectures and Legacy systems; Quality-assessment of software architectures; Validation and verification of software architecture; Automatic analysis of legacy code; Strategies for isolating legacy code and improving the design quality; Metrics for evaluating architectural quality characteristics; Tools for quality assessments of software architectures; Techniques and tools for testing legacy systems
 
Testing and validation of run-time evolving systems
 Automated testing for run-time evolving systems; Testing and validation of evolving systems; Testing and validation of self-controlled systems; Testing compile-time versus run-time dependency for evolving systems; On-line validation and testing of evolving at run-time systems; Modeling for testability of evolving at run-time systems; Near real-time and real-time monitoring of run-time evolving systems; Verification and validation of reflective models for testing; Verification and validation of fault tolerance in run-time evolving systems
 
Feature-oriented testing
 Testing user interfaces and user-driven features; Privacy testing; Ontology accuracy testing; Testing semantic matching; Testing certification processes; Testing authentication mechanisms; Testing biometrics methodologies and mechanisms; Testing cross-nation systems; Testing system interoperability; Testing system safety; Testing system robustness; Testing temporal constraints; Testing transaction-based properties; Directed energy test capabilities /microwave, laser, etc./; Testing delay and latency metrics
 
Domain-oriented testing
 Testing autonomic and autonomous systems;  Testing intrusion prevention systems; Firewall testing;  Information assurance testing; Testing social network systems; Testing recommender systems; Testing biometric systems;  Testing diagnostic systems; Testing on-line systems; Testing financial systems; Testing life threatening systems; Testing emergency systems; Testing sensor-based systems;  Testing testing systems
 
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 Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComVALID14.html
 
VALID Advisory Chairs
 Andrea Baruzzo, Università degli Studi di Udine, Italy
 Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
 Mehdi Tahoori, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany
 Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente - Enschede, The Netherlands
 Amir Alimohammad, San Diego State University, USA
 Hema Srikanth, IBM, USA
 
VALID 2014 Research Institute Liaison Chairs
 Juho Perälä, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland
 Alexander Klaus, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE), Germany
 Kazumi Hatayama, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
 Alin Stefanescu, University of Bucharest, Romania
 Vladimir Rubanov, Institute for System Programming / Russian Academy of Sciences (ISPRAS), Russia
 Tanja Vos, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
 
VALID 2014 Industry Chairs
 Abel Marrero, Bombardier Transportation Germany GmbH - Mannheim, Germany
 Sebastian Wieczorek, SAP AG - Darmstadt, Germany
 Eric Verhulst, Altreonic, Belgium
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