[Apologies for multiple copies] Call for Papers: FAACS 2025 The 9th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems (FAACS 2025), co-located with the 22nd IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2025), will be held in Odense, Denmark March 31-April 4, 2025. Web: https://faacs-workshop.github.io/2025/
Important Dates: – Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024 – Notification of Papers: January 20, 2025 – Camera Ready: January 27, 2025 – Workshop Date: March 31/April 1, 2025 *** Motivation and Scope *** Cutting-edge technologies, infrastructures, and computational paradigms such as digital twin, cloud, fog, edge computing, IoT, digitalization, Industry 5.0, and cyber-physical systems are changing how data and services are delivered and used. Such systems have a significant and elaborate societal impact, making it paramount to guarantee essential qualities of the delivered product, such as dependability, reliability, safety, and availability. As new paradigms become pervasive in our everyday lives, new challenges also emerge in dealing with uncertainty, untrustworthiness, and information loss, affecting the software life cycle in different phases. Ensuring critical qualities requires a joint effort in devising advanced software architecture designs by the software architecture community and formal modeling and verification approaches by the formal methods community. The main goal of the workshop is to foster integration between formal methods and software architecture promoting new connections and synergies between the two communities to address the challenges of the upcoming generation of computing systems. *** Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to) the following: *** – requirements formalization and formal specification, with or without the use of generative AI; – formal/semi-formal architecture design, validation and verification, quality analysis and evaluation; – formal/semi-formal approaches to digitalization, development of digital society and Digital Twins; – methodologies and approaches focusing on addressing challenges of modern computing systems that are currently addressed ad-hoc; – architecture description languages and metamodels; – architectural patterns, styles and tactics, viewpoints and views; – architecture transformation and refinement, architecture based synthesis; – model-driven engineering; – approaches and tools for verification and validation; – performance analysis based on formal approaches; – compliance assurance using formal methods; – application of methodologies, theories, approaches and techniques specific to the aforementioned areas to AI-based, autonomous, robotic, cyber-physical, and self-adaptive systems; – use of generative AI for aforementioned areas – reports on practical experience in the application of formal methods to industrial case studies. *** Types of Papers *** FAACS 2025 solicits: – Full papers (up to 8 pages): about original research contributions, case studies, or reports on work or experiences in industry; – Short papers (up to 4 pages): describing work-in-progress, new and disruptive ideas, techniques, and/ortools or extensions not fully validated yet. – Position papers (up to 2 pages): contributions that analyze trends and raise relevant issues related to the workshop themes. Position papers will also be reviewed based on their ability to spark discussions at the workshop. – Tool competition entries: this type invites the submission of innovative solutions addressing problem(s) related to the workshop themes. *** Submission *** All submissions will follow the IEEE Computer Science proceedings format<https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Submitted papers must be written in English and conform to the the IEEE Guidelines<https://journals.ieeeauthorcenter.ieee.org/become-an-ieee-journal-author/publishing-ethics/guidelines-and-policies/submission-and-peer-review-policies/#maincontent> including the guidelines for AI-Generated text. Submissions must be done before the deadline in PDF format via via the EasyChair submission system<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsa2024>. Program Co-chairs – Nadeem Abbas<https://lnu.se/en/staff/nadeem.abbas/>, Linnaeus University, Sweden, (nadeem.ab...@lnu.se<mailto:nadeem.ab...@lnu.se>) – Eun-Young Kang, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark (e...@mmmi.sdu.dk<mailto:e...@mmmi.sdu.dk>) – Livia Lestingi<https://www.deib.polimi.it/eng/people/details/834948>, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, (livia.lesti...@polimi.it<mailto:livia.lesti...@polimi.it>) Steering Committee – Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics, Japan – Matteo Camilli, Politecnico di Milano, Italy – Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy – Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy – Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy Regards Nadeem __________________________________________ Nadeem Abbas, PhD Associate Professor Linnaeus University Department of Computer Science and Media Technology 351 95 Växjö Sweden +46-470-767411 (office) +46-702-017249 (Mobile) +46-470-84004 (Fax) nadeem.ab...@lnu.se https://lnu.se/en/staff/nadeem.abbas/
