apologies if you receive multiple copies... Please forward to interested collegues. FORMAL METHODS EUROPE FME 2002 "Formal Methods: Getting IT Right" International Symposium and Tutorials http://floc02.diku.dk/FME/ 20-24 July 2002 Call for Papers *************** FME 2002 is the eleventh in a series of symposia organised by Formal Methods Europe, an independent association whose aim is to stimulate the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development. These symposia have been notably successful in bringing together a community of users, researchers, and developers of precise mathematical methods for software development. In 2002 the symposium will be held in conjunction with the third Federated Logic Conference (FLoC'02) in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme of FME 2002 is Formal Methods: Getting IT Right. The double meaning is intentional. On the one hand, the theme acknowledges the significant contribution formal methods can make to Information Technology, by enabling computer systems to be described precisely and reasoned about with rigour. On the other hand, it recognises that current formal methods are not perfect, and further research and practice are required to improve their foundations, applicability and effectiveness. FME seeks papers in all aspects of formal methods for computer systems, including the following: * theoretical foundations * practical use and case studies * specification and modelling techniques * software development and refinement * tool support and software engineering environments for formal methods * verification and validation * hidden formal methods, and making benefits available to non-experts * reusable domain theories * method integration * hardware verification In addition to presentations of submitted papers, the symposium will offer tutorials, workshops, invited speakers, and tool demonstrations. PAPERS Full papers should be submitted in Postscript or PDF format by e-mail to reach the Program Co-chairs by 15 January 2002. Papers will be refereed by the Program Committee and must be original research papers that have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Accepted papers will be published in the symposium proceedings. Papers should not exceed twenty pages, although longer papers will be considered if their content justifies it. LNCS format should be used: see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details. Please include a short list of keywords on a separate line at the end of the abstract, beginning with the word "Keyword:" in boldface. OTHER SYMPOSIUM ACTIVITIES Tutorials and workshops will be held on 20-21 July 2002. Each tutorial will last one-half or one day. Proposals are welcome, and should be directed to the Program Co-chairs by 15 January 2002; more details will appear on the web-site above. Tool demonstrations will also take place during the symposium, with the opportunity for presentations to be made about each tool. Proposals for tool demonstrations should be made to the Tool Demonstration Coordinator, with whom provison of necessary computing facilities should be discussed. PEOPLE Organising Chair Dines Bjørner Informatics and Mathematical Modelling Building 322, Richard Petersens Plads Technical University of Denmark DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark Tel: +45 4525 3720 Email: db@imm.dtu.dk Programme Co-chairs Lars-Henrik Eriksson, Industrilogik L4i AB Box 21024, SE-100 31 Stockholm, Sweden Tel: +46 1859 1690 Fax: +46 1847 17058 Email: lhe@L4i.se Peter Lindsay, Software Verification Research Centre The University of Queensland, Queensland 4072, Australia Tel: +61 7 3365 2005 Fax: +61 7 3365 1533 Email: Peter.Lindsay@svrc.uq.edu.au Programme Committee Bernhard Aichernig Graz University of Technology, Austria Juan Bicarregui SERC Rutherford Labs, UK Ernie Cohen Telcordia Technologies, USA Ben Di Vito NASA Langley Research Center, USA Cindy Eisner IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel Lars-Henrik Eriksson (co-chair) Industrilogik, Sweden John Fitzgerald Transitive Technologies Ltd, UK Jim Grundy Intel Corporation, USA Yves Ledru LSR/IMAG, Domaine Universitaire, France Peter Lindsay (co-chair) University of Queensland, Australia Markus Montigel University of New Orleans, USA Richard Moore IFAD, Denmark Tobias Nipkow Technische Universität München, Germany Colin O'Halloran Qinetiq (ex-DERA), UK Jose Oliveira Universidade do Minho, Portugal Nico Plat West Consulting, The Netherlands Jeannette Wing Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jim Woodcock Oxford University, UK Joakim von Wright Åbo Akademi University, Finland Pamela Zave AT&T Laboratories, USA Tool Demonstration Coordinator Paul Mukherjee The Institute of Applied Computer Sciense (IFAD) Forskerparken 10, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark Tel: +45 6315 7131 Fax: +45 6593 2999 Email: paul.mukherjee@ifad.dk IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers, tutorial proposals and workshop proposals: 15 January 2002 Notification of acceptance/rejection: 27 March 2002 Camera ready final version of papers due: 10 May 2002