[ecoop-info] ASM, Alloy, B, VDM, and Z (ABZ) 2012 CfP -- paper submission: Jan 14, 2012

[Khurshid, Sarfraz]

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3rd International ABZ 2012 Conference
Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, VDM, Z

June 18-22, 2012
CNR, Pisa, Italy
(in conjunction with IFM 2012)

http://abzconference.org/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop proposal submissions: October 15, 2011
Workshop proposal notifications: November 30, 2011
Paper submission:  January 14, 2012
Extended abstracts submission (for short presentations): February 3, 2012
Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 1, 2012
Final Version due: March 20, 2012
Tutorial proposal submissions: to be announced
Main ABZ 2012 conference: June 19-22, 2012

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CONFERENCE CHAIRS  
For questions concerning ABZ 2012, contact:

Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy (elvinia.riccobene at unimi.it)
Steve Reeves, University of Waikato, New Zealand (stever at cs.waikato.ac.nz).

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RATIONALE

The ABZ 2012 conference is organized in Pisa (Italy) in conjunction with
iFM 2012 and is being held in
honor of Prof. Egon Börger's 65th birthday.

The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of five related
state-based and machine-based
formal methods, Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, VDM and Z,  that
share a common conceptual
foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the
design and analysis of hardware and
software systems. It builds on the success of the first ABZ conference
held in London in 2008, where the
ASM, B and Z conference series merged into a single event, and the success
of the second ABZ conference
held in Orford (Canada) where the Alloy community joined the event. The
novelty of the 3rd international
event is the inclusion of the VDM community in the ABZ conference series.
      
Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications
of ASMs, Alloy, B, VDM, Z and related
approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of
tools and industrial applications.
The program spans from theoretical and methodological foundations to
practical applications, emphasizing
system engineering methods and tools that are distinguished by
mathematical rigour and have proved to be
industrially viable. The main goal of the conference is to contribute to
the integration of accurate state- and
machine-based system development methods, clarifying their commonalities
and differences to better
understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the
various tasks in modeling,
experimental validation, and mathematical verification of reliable
high-quality hardware/software systems.

Although organized logistically as a single, integral event, editorial
control of the joint conference remains
vested in five separate program committees, which will respectively
determine its ASM, Alloy, B, VDM and
Z content, to be presented in parallel conference tracks with a schedule
to allow the participants to switch
between the sessions.
Proposals are invited for workshops and tutorials to take place the day
before the main conference.

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SUBMISSION POLICY, INSTRUCTIONS, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

Two kinds of contributions are invited:
* Research papers: full papers of not more than 14 pages in LNCS format,
which have to be original,
unpublished and not submitted elsewhere.
* Short presentations of work in progress, industrial experience reports
and tool demonstrations. This
is an excellent opportunity for Ph.D. students to present and validate
their work in progress. It is also
an interesting option for industrial practitioners who sometimes face too
many constraints to prepare
a full paper. An extended abstract of not more than 4 pages is expected
and will be reviewed. A
volume of accepted extended abstracts will be made available as a
Technical Report with an ISBN
number, and a 1-page abstract of each presentation will be published in
the Proceedings.

Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF at the ABZ 2012
conference Easy-Chair web site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2012.
The papers must be prepared using the SPRINGER LNCS style
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

All accepted papers will be published in a volume of Springer's LNCS
series. The LNCS volume of the
Conference Proceedings will be distributed at the conference.
Journal Special Issue: an improved version of a selected number of
contributions will be published in a
special issue of the journal Science of Computer Programming.

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INVITED SPEAKERS

Prof. Egon Börger, University of Pisa, Italy
Prof. Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Prof. Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia

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WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
Workshop/Tutorial will be associated to the main event iFM/ABZ. Proposals
are solicited in areas related to
the conference topics.

In particular workshops on challenging new, emerging fields are sought.
Proposals
should be sent to the workshop chairs:
Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy (maurice.terbeek at isti.cnr.it)
Angelo Gargantini, University of Bergamo, Italy
(angelo.gargantini at unibg.it)
The deadline for submissions is October 15, 2011.
Notifications will be sent by November 30, 2011.

Tutorial proposals should be send to Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile
Limited, UK (jpbowen at gmail.com)

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GENERAL CHAIRS  
John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK
Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

TRACK CHAIRS  
Alloy Track Chair: Sarfraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin, USA
(khurshid at ece.utexas.edu)
ASM Track Chair: Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
(elvinia.riccobene at unimi.it)
B Track Chair: Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
(leuschel at cs.uni-duesseldorf.de)
VDM Track Chair: John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK
(john.fitzgerald at newcastle.ac.uk)
Z Track Chair: Steve Reeves, University of Waikato, New Zealand
(stever at cs.waikato.ac.nz)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Jean-Raymond Abrial, Marseille, France
Yamine Ait-Ameur, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France
Rob Arthan, Lemma 1 Ltd., UK
Nick Battle, Fujitsu Services, UK
Juan Bicarregui, STFC, UK
Dines Bjorner, DTU Informatics, Denmark
Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, UK
Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile Limited, UK
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK
David Deharbe, Federal University of RIo Grande do Norte, Brazil
John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK
Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada
Andriy Dunets, Codronic GmbH, Augsburg, Germany
Steve Dunne, University of Teesside, UK
Kerstin Eder, University of Bristol, UK
Roozbeh Farahbod, Researcher at Defence R&D Canada, Canada
Kathi Fisler, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA
John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK
Marc Frappier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Uwe Glaesser, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Anthony Hall,  independent consultant, UK
Stefan Hallerstede, University of Aarhus, Denmark
Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA, USA
Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia
Rob Hierons, Brunel University, UK
Thai Son Hoang, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Jeremy Jacob, University of York, UK
Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, UK,
Sarfraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Régine Laleau, Univesity of Paris-Est, France
Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus School of Engineering, Denmark
Daniel Le Berre, Université d'Artois, France
Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France
Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Darko Marinov, University of Illinois, USA
Christophe Métayer, Systerel, France
José Oliveira, Minho University, Portugal
Marie-Laure Potet, IMAG Grenoble, France
Andreas Prinz, Agder University College, Norway
Alexander Raschke, University of ULM, Germany
Steve Reeves, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Burkhardt Renz, THM, Gießen, Germany
Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
Ken Robinson, Univ. of New South Wales, Australia
Shin Sahara, SCSK Corporation and Hosei University, Japan, Japan
Thomas Santen, European Microsoft Innovation Center, Aachen, Germany
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Gerhard Schellhorn, University of Augsburg, Germany
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, SCCH, Linz, Austria
Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK
Colin Snook, University of Southampton, UK
Kevin Sullivan, University of Virginia, USA
Mana Taghdiri, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Bernard Thalheim, University of Kiel, Germany
Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research, USA
Marcel Verhoef, CHESS BV, Netherlands
Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia

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VENUE

The conference will take place in Pisa at the Auditorium of the CNR
Research Area.
Address: Via Moruzzi, 1, 56124 Pisa, Tuscany, Italy
Further details on the venue will be announced on the workshop site
http://ifm-abz.isti.cnr.it/page21/indexifm.html

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SUPPORTED BY
ASM User Group
Alloy User Community
Association de Pilotage des Conférences B
Overture Community (VDM)
Z User Group