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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoPlainText>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>CALL FOR PAPERS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> *************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> * SUBMISSION EXTENDED DEADLINE !! *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> * *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> * NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: JANUARY 22 *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> * AUTHORS ARE ANYWAY REQUIRED TO SUBMIT A SHORT *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> * ABSTRACT OF THEIR PAPER BY JANUARY 15 *<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText> *************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>9th International Conference on Integrated Formal Methods (iFM 2012) in conjunction with ABZ 2012, in honor of Egon Boerger's 65th birthday for his contribution to state-based formal methods<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span lang=IT style='font-size:14.0pt'>June 18 - 22, 2012 - CNR - Pisa - ITALY http://ifm.isti.cnr.it<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione ``A. Faedo''<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Formal Methods && Tools Lab.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Via Moruzzi 1 - 56124 Pisa<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>OBJECTIVES AND SCOPE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Applying formal methods may involve the modeling of different aspects of a system that are expressed through different paradigms.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Correspondingly, different analysis techniques will be used to examine differently modeled system views, different kinds of properties, or simply in order to cope with the sheer complexity of the system.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The iFM conference series seeks to further research into the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding modeling and analysis, and covering all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice Areas of interest include but are not limited to:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Case Studies;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Experience reports;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Formal and semiformal modelling notations;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Logics;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Model checking;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Model transformations;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Semantics;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Static Analysis;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Refinement;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Theorem proving;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Tools;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Type Systems;<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>- Verification<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>iFM 2012 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the overall theme of method integration.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The conference proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files; we suggest to use the LaTeX2e package (the llncs.cls class file, available in llncs2e.zip and the typeinst.dem available in typeinst.zip as a template for your contribution). Submissions should be made using the iFM 2012 Easychair web site. Papers should not exceed 15 pages in length. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>IMPORTANT DATES<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='font-size:14.0pt;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow'>Paper ABSTRACT submission: January 15, 2012 Paper submission: January 22, 2012 <<<<<< NEW DEADLINE!!!</span></b><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Paper notification: March 1, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Final version paper: March 20, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Poster/Demo submission: April 1, 2012<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>INVITED SPEAKERS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Egon Boerger, University of Pisa, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Muffy Calder, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ABZ - iFM 2012 GENERAL CHAIRS<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>John Derrick, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom Stefania Gnesi, CNR-ISTI, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>iFM PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Diego Latella, CNR-ISTI, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>ABZ - iFM 2012 FINANCE CHAIR<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Alessandro Fantechi, Universita' di Firenze, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ABZ - iFM 2012 TUTORIALS CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Jonathan Bowen, Museophile Limited, United Kingdom<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ABZ - iFM 2012 WORKSHOPS CHAIR<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Maurice ter Beek, CNR-ISTI, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>Angelo Gargantini, Universita' di Bergamo, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT>ABZ - iFM 2012 POSTERS & TOOL DEMO CHAIRS Franco Mazzanti, CNR-ISTI, Italy Gianluca Trentanni, CNR-ISTI, Italy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span lang=IT><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText>ABZ - iFM 2012 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE CHAIR Maurice ter Beek, CNR-ISTI, Italy<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Marc Benveniste, STMicroelectronics Rousset, France Eerke Boiten, University of Kent, UK Jonathan Bowen, Museophile Limited, UK Jim Davies, Oxford University, UK John Derrick, University of Sheffield, UK Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore Kerstin Eder, University of Bristol, UK Alessandro Fantechi, Univ. Florence & CNR/ISTI, Italy John Fitzgerald, University of Newcastle, UK Andy Galloway, University of York, UK Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Diego Latella, CNR/ISTI, Italy Michael Leuschel, University of Duesseldorf, Germany Michele Loreti, University of Florence, Italy Silvia Mazzini, Intecs S.p.A., Italy Dominique Mery, Nancy University and LORIA, France Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy and LORIA, France Alexandre Mota, CIn-UFPE, Brasil Flemming Nielson, Technical University of Denmark Luigia Petre, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland David Pichardie, INRIA Rennes, France Thomas Santen, Microsoft Re search, Aachen, Germany Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK Kaisa Sere, Abo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Graeme Smith, University of Queensland, Australia Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK Mirco Tribastone, LMU, Germany Marina Walden, Abo Akademi Univ., Turku, Finland Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>**********************************************************************<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>This call for papers and additional information about the conference <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>can be found at http://ifm.isti.cnr.it<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>For information regarding the conference you can contact:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>iFM2012@isti.cnr.it<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>