ICFEM 2013 CALL FOR PAPERS AND WORKSHOPS 15th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2013) Queenstown, New Zealand, 29 October - 1 November 2013 http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/icfem2013/ The 15th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2013) will be held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Queenstown, New Zealand from 29 October to 1 November 2013. Since 1997, ICFEM has been serving as an international forum for researchers and practitioners who have been seriously applying formal methods to practical applications. Researchers and practitioners, from industry, academia, and government, are encouraged to attend, and to help advance the state of the art. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical and tangible benefit. ICFEM 2013 is organized and sponsored by The University of Auckland and will be held in the world renowned travel destination - Queenstown. Around 1.9 million visitors are drawn to Queenstown each year to enjoy their own unforgettable travel experience. We are looking forward to your submissions and participation. SCOPE AND TOPICS Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods and their practical applications will also be considered. + Abstraction and refinement + Formal specification and modeling + Program analysis + Software verification + Software model checking + Formal approaches to software testing + Formal methods for self-adaptive systems + Formal methods for object and component systems + Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems + Formal methods for cloud computing and cyber-physical systems + Formal methods for software safety, security, reliability and dependability + Tool development, integration and experiments involving verified systems + Formal methods used in certifying products under international standards + Formal model-based development and code generation SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. The proceedings will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format (see http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html for details). Submission should be made through the ICFEM 2013 submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2013), handled by the EasyChair conference management system. WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL The first day of the conference (29 October 2013) will be dedicated to workshops, tutorials and other satellite events. The organizing committee of ICFEM 2013 therefore cordially invites proposals for one-day workshops and one-day or half-day tutorials in any area related to formal methods or software engineering, but particularly in new or emerging fields of application of formal methods. Proposals for workshops/tutorial should contain: + a title and brief description of the topic and the history of the workshop/tutorial, if applicable; + the names and contact details of the potential organizers; + a brief justification of the topic and estimated size of audience; + a description of any special technical requirements. Proposals should be sent to ICFEM2013 Workshops Chairs, Yang Liu and Jun Sun, at <yangliu@ntu.edu.sg> no later than 18 April 2013. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submissions Due: 15 April 2013 Full Paper Submissions Due: 22 April 2013 Workshop/Tutorial Proposals: 18 April 2013 Acceptance Notification: 18 June 2013 Camera-ready Papers Due: 15 July 2013 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Co-Chairs Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Ian Hayes, The University of Queensland, Australia. Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Program Committee Co-Chairs Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. Local Organization Chair Gillian Dobbie, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Publicity Co-Chairs Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University & Chairman, Museophile Limited, United Kingdom. Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Bernhard K. Aichernig, Graz University of Technology, Austria. Yamine Ait Ameur, LISI/ENSMA, France. Keijiro Araki, Kyushu University, Japan. Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands. Richard Banach, University of Manchester, United Kingdom. Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research Redmond, USA. Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University & Chairman, Museophile Limited, United Kingdom. Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Jim Davies, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China. Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Joaquim Gabarro, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy. Radu Grosu, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA. Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia. Mike Hinchey, Lero, Ireland. Peter Gorm Larsen, Engineering College of Aarhus, Denmark. Michael Leuschel, Heinrich-Heine Universitat Dusseldorf, Germany. Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China. Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia. Shang-Wei Lin, National University of Singapore, Singapore. Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan. Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Zhiming Liu, UNU/IIST, China. Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany. Hong Mei, Peking University, China. Huaikou Miao, Shanghai University, China. Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan. Sebastian Nanz, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. Jose Nuno Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal. Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg. Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom. Zongyan Qiu, Peking University, China. Steve Reeves, The University of Waikato, New Zealand. Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Wuwei Shen, Western Michigan University, USA. Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland. Graeme Smith, The University of Queensland, Australia. Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand. Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore. Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan. Tetsuo Tamai, Hosei University, Japan. Yih-Kuen Tsay, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. T.H. Tse, The University of Hong Kong, China. Viktor Vafeiadis, MPI-SWS, Germany. Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan. Hai H. Wang, Aston University, United Kingdom. Jim Woodcock, University of York, United Kingdom. Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden. Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China. Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, United Kingdom. Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China.