PRELIMINARY CALL FOR TUTORIAL PAPERS 4th International Symposium on 1 - 4 November 2005 Formal Methods for Objects and Components CWI, Amsterdam (FMCO 2005) The Netherlands http://fmco.liacs.nl/fmco05.html The FMCO symposium is an annual international event on the application and development of formal methods in software engineering, with a special focus on component-based and object-oriented software systems. We invite submissions of tutorial papers on topics that fit under that rubric. Suggested, but not exclusive, topics of interest for submissions include: models and logics for object-oriented and component-based systems, formal aspects of analysis of large systems, prediction, analysis and monitoring of extra-functional system properties, applications of modal logics, temporal logics, and model checking for the specification and verification of object-oriented languages, type systems and type theory for objects and components, probabilistic systems, process calculi, and semantics of object and component oriented language, reasoning about security, trustworthiness and dependability of component-based systems. Important Dates --------------- Authors are invited to submit a title and a short abstract of one or two pages providing a tutorial perspective on research results or experience related to the topics above. Accepted abstracts will be presented at the symposium and an extended tutorial paper of about 20 pages in LNCS style will be refereed and eventually published together with the contributions of the keynote speakers after the symposium, in a proceeding of Lecture Notes in Computer Science by Springer-Verlag. Selected papers will be published in revised and extended version in the Elsevier journal Theoretical Computer Science. Title and short abstract due: 5 Sep 2005 Tutorial paper due: 28 Feb 2006 Author notification: 1 Oct 2005 Author notification: 15 Apr 2006 Symposium: 1-4 Nov 2005 Camera-ready paper due: 15 May 2006 The short abstracts must be in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the organizing committee and the advisory board to assess the merits of the related tutorial paper. One author of each accepted abstract will be expected to present the tutorial at the conference. The tutorial paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication, but may contain previously published material. Short abstracts and tutorial paper must be submitted electronically to F.S. de Boer (frb@cwi.nl) or M.M. Bonsangue (marcello@liacs.nl). Format ------ The symposium is a four days event organised to provide an atmosphere that fosters collaborative work, discussions and interaction. Lectures are given by the keynote speakers listed below and by authors of accepted abstract. Keynote speakers and advisory board ----------------------------------- Michael Barnett (Microsoft, USA) Lus Caires (New University of Lisbon, PT) Patrick Cousout (ENS, FR) Dennis Dam (Bell Labs, USA) Wan Fokkink (Free University, NL) Orna Grumberg (Technion, ISR) Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen, DE) Kung-Kiu Lau (University of Manchester, UK) Peter O' Hearn (Queen Mary University of London, UK) Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter (University of Kaiserslautern, DE) John Reynolds (Pittsburg University, USA) Davide Sangiorgi (Universita di Bologna, IT) Organizing committee -------------------- F.S. de Boer (CWI and LIACS-Leiden University) M.M. Bonsangue (LIACS-Leiden University) S. Graf (Verimag) W.-P. de Roever (Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel) ================================================================================ For more information about the symposium see the FMCO site above or consult either F.S. de Boer (frb@cwi.nl) or M.M. Bonsangue (marcello@liacs.nl).