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CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
<br>
FORTE 2015<br>
A <a href="http://www.discotec.org">DisCoTec</a>
Member Conference<br>
<br>
35th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for<br>
Distributed Objects, Components and Systems<br>
<br>
<a href="http://www.discotec.org/forte">discotec2015.inria.fr/</a><br>
<br>
</font><font face="monospace">taking place on June 2-4, 2015 in
Grenoble, France<br>
<br>
Abstract Submission: January 16, 2015<br>
Paper Submission: January 23, 2015 <br>
Author Notification: March 6, 2015<br>
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<br>
</font><tt>FORTE 2015 is a forum for fundamental research on theory,
models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. The
conference solicits original contributions that advance the
science and technologies for distributed systems, with special
interest in the areas of:
</tt>
<ul>
<li><tt>service-oriented, ubiquitous, pervasive, grid, cloud, and
mobile computing systems;</tt></li>
<li><tt>object technology, modularity, component- and model-based
design;</tt></li>
<li><tt>software reliability, availability, and safety;</tt></li>
<li><tt>security, privacy, and trust in distributed systems;</tt></li>
<li><tt>adaptive distributed systems, self-stabilization;</tt></li>
<li><tt>self-healing/organizing;</tt></li>
<li><tt>verification, validation, formal analysis, and testing of
the above.</tt></li>
</ul>
<tt>
</tt>
<p><tt>Contributions that combine theory and practice and that
exploit formal methods and theoretical foundations to present
novel solutions to problems arising from the development of
distributed systems are encouraged. FORTE covers distributed
computing models and formal specification, testing and
verification methods. The application domains include all kinds
of application-level distributed systems, telecommunication
services, Internet, embedded and real-time systems, as well as
networking and communication security and reliability.</tt></p>
<font face="monospace"> <big>=== Main topics of interest ===</big></font><br>
<p><tt>Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</tt></p>
<tt>
</tt>
<ul>
<li><tt>Languages and semantic foundations: new modeling and
language concepts for distribution and concurrency, semantics
for different types of languages, including programming
languages, modeling languages, and domain-specific languages;
real-time and probability aspects;</tt></li>
<li><tt>Formal methods and techniques: design, specification,
analysis, verification, validation, testing and runtime
verification of various types of distributed systems including
communications and network protocols, service-oriented
systems, adaptive distributed systems, cyber-physical systems
and sensor networks;</tt></li>
<li><tt>Foundations of security: new principles for qualitative
and quantitative security analysis of distributed systems,
including formal models based on probabilistic concepts;</tt></li>
<li><tt>Applications of formal methods: applying formal methods
and techniques for studying quality, reliability,
availability, and safety of distributed systems;</tt></li>
<li><tt>Practical experience with formal methods: industrial
applications, case studies and software tools for applying
formal methods and description techniques to the development
and analysis of real distributed systems.</tt></li>
</ul>
<p><font face="monospace"><big>=== Invited Speakers ===</big><br>
</font></p>
<ul>
<li><tt><a
href="http://www.pervasive.jku.at/About_Us/Staff/Ferscha/"
target="_blank">Alois Ferscha</a></tt><tt> (Johannes Kepler
Universität, Linz, Austria)</tt></li>
</ul>
<tt></tt>
<ul>
<li><tt><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Lamport"
target="_blank">Leslie Lamport</a></tt><tt> (Microsoft
Research, USA)</tt></li>
</ul>
<tt></tt>
<ul>
<li><tt><a
href="http://people.epfl.ch/willy.zwaenepoel?lang=en&cvlang=en"
target="_blank">Willy Zwaenepoel</a></tt><tt> (EPFL,
Switzerland)</tt></li>
</ul>
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<big>=== Submission and publication ===</big><br>
</font><br>
<font face="monospace">Contributions must be written in English and
report on original, unpublished work, not submitted for
publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP’s codes of conduct). The
submissions must not exceed 15 pages in length, including figures
and references, prepared using Springer’s LNCS style </font><font
face="monospace"><font face="monospace">(cf. <a
href="http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html">http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html</a>).<br>
<br>
</font>Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints
may be rejected without review. <br>
<br>
Papers can be submitted electronically in pdf via the FORTE’15
interface of the EasyChair system:<br>
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<blockquote><font face="monospace"><font face="monospace"><a
target="_blank"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte2015">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte2015</a><a
href="https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=forte14"></a></font></font><br>
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<font face="monospace"><font face="monospace"><br>
</font></font><font face="monospace"><font face="monospace">The
time of all deadlines is 24:00 SST (UTC-11, Samoa Standard
Time). <br>
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</font>Each paper will undergo a peer review of at least 3
anonymous reviewers. <br>
<br>
The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the
LNCS Series. The best papers will be invited after the conference
to contribute to a special issue of a top-level journal (e.g. TCS
or Information & Computation). <br>
<br>
<br>
<big>=== Programme Chairs ===</big></font><br>
<blockquote><tt>Susanne Graf (VERIMAG & CNRS, Grenoble, France)</tt><br>
<tt>Mahesh Viswanathan (U. Illinois, USA)</tt><br>
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<font face="monospace"> <big>=== Programme Committee ===</big></font><br>
<blockquote><tt>Erika Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Luca Aceto (U. Reykjavik, Iceland)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>S Akshay (IIT Bombay, India)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Paul Attie (American U. Beirut, Lebanon)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Rohit Chadha (U. Missouri, USA)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Rance Cleaveland (U. Maryland, USA)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Mc Master U., Ontario, Canada)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Stephanie Delaune (CNRS & ENS Cachan, France)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Wan Fokkink (VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Gregor Goessler (INRIA Grenoble, France)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Gerard Holzmann (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA,
USA)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Alan Jeffrey (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs, USA)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Petr Kuznetsov (Telecom ParisTech, France)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Ivan Lanese (U. Bologna, Italy)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Kim Larsen (U. Aalborg, Denmark)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Antonia Lopes (U. Lisbon, Portugal)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Stephan Merz (LORIA & INRIA Nancy, France)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay, France)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Alan Schmitt (IRISA & INRIA Rennes, France)</tt><br>
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<font face="monospace"> <big>=== Steering Committee: ===</big></font><br>
<blockquote><tt>Erica Abraham (RWTH Aachen, Germany)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Dirk Beyer (U. Passau, Germany)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Michele Boreale (U. Firenze, Italy)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Einar Broch Johnsen (U. Oslo, Norway)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Frank de Boer (CWI, Amsterdam, Netherlands)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Holger Giese (U. Potsdam, Germany)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, Saclay, France)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Grigore Rosu (U. Illinois, USA)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, Grenoble, France) (Chair)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>Heike Wehrheim (U. Paderborn, Germany)</tt><br>
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</tt><tt>VERIMAG | fax : (+33) (0)4 56 52 03 46 (or
44)</tt><tt><br>
</tt><tt>2, avenue de Vignate | <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~graf/">http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~graf/</a></tt><tt><br>
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