— As you may have heard, FORMATS, together with all conferences joint within
QONFEST, will be held as a virtual meeting in light of the current Covid-19
pandemic. More information will follow soon. We have decided to already
postpone the abstract and paper submission deadlines by two weeks to give
everybody planning certainty and the opportunity to submit their best research
papers to FORMATS 2020. —
2nd Call for Papers
FORMATS 2020
September 1st-3rd
Vienna, Austria (virtual meeting)
co-located with CONCUR, FMICS, and QEST
https://formats-2020.cs.ru.nl/ <https://formats-2020.cs.ru.nl/>
Invited Speakers: Alessandro Abate, Roderick Bloem, Annabelle McIver
- Objective
Timing aspects of systems from a variety of computer science domains have been
treated independently by different communities. Researchers interested in
semantics, verification, and performance analysis study models such as timed
automata and timed Petri nets, the digital design community focuses on
propagation and switching delays, while designers of embedded controllers have
to take account of the time taken by controllers to compute their responses
after sampling the environment. Timing-related questions in these separate
disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing
awareness that there are basic problems that are common to all of them. In
particular, all these sub-disciplines treat systems whose behaviour depends
upon combinations of logical and temporal constraints; namely, constraints on
the temporal distances between occurrences of events.
- Topics
The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental and practical aspects
of timed systems, and to bring together researchers from different disciplines
that share interests in modelling and analysis of timed systems. This year
again, FORMATS aims at being more inclusive with respect to applications,
notably real-time systems and emerging directions such as data science. Typical
topics include (but are not limited to):
• Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems
and languages; comparison between different models (timed automata, timed Petri
nets, hybrid automata, timed process algebra, max-plus algebra, probabilistic
models).
• Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and
software tools for analyzing timed systems and resolving temporal constraints
(scheduling, worst-case execution time analysis,optimization, model checking,
testing, constraint solving, etc.).
• Applications: Adaptation and specialization of timing technology in
application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time
software, hardware circuits, and problems of scheduling in manufacturing and
telecommunication).
- Special Sessions
This year, FORMATS additionally encourages submissions in two particular topics.
Data-driven methods for timed systems (chaired by Guillermo Alberto Perez).
We are interested in all kind of data-driven methods such as machine learning
or automata learning that consider timing aspects. Examples are automata
learning for timed automata or reinforcement learning with timing constraints.
Probabilistic and timed systems (chaired by Arnd Hartmanns).
Real-time systems often encompass probabilistic or random behavior. We are
interested in all approaches to model or analyze such systems, for instance
through probabilistic timed automata, or stochastic timed Petri nets.
- Paper Submission
FORMATS 2020 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or
experience reports related to the topics mentioned above. Submitted papers must
contain original, unpublished contributions, not submitted for publication
elsewhere. The papers should be submitted electronically in PDF, following the
Springer LNCS style guidelines. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages in
length (excluding references, that are therefore not limited), and short papers
(for instance describing case studies, or implementations) are limited to 5
pages (again excluding references). Each paper will undergo a thorough review
process. If necessary, the paper may be supplemented with a clearly marked
appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee.
Papers will be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission
system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2020
<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2020>
Publication and best paper award
The proceedings of FORMATS 2020 will be published by Springer in the Lecture
Notes in Computer Science series. The best paper of the conference will be
awarded the Oded Maler Award in Timed Systems.
Important dates
• Abstract submission: April 18, 2020
• Paper submission: April 27, 2020
• Notification of acceptance: June 29, 2020
• Final version due: July 08, 2020
• Conference: September 1-3, 2019
For any questions, feel free to contact the co-chairs Nathalie Bertrand
(nathalie.bertr...@inria.fr <mailto:nathalie.bertr...@inria.fr>) and Nils
Jansen (n.jan...@science.ru.nl <mailto:n.jan...@science.ru.nl>)
Committees
- Program Chairs
Nathalie Bertrand (France)
Nils Jansen (The Netherlands)
- General Chair
Ezio Bartocci (Austria)
- Steering Committee
Rajeev Alur (USA)
Eugene Asarin (France)
Martin Fränzle (chair, Germany)
Thomas A. Henzinger (Austria)
Joost-Pieter Katoen (Germany)
Kim G. Larsen (Denmark)
Oded Maler (founding chair, France) (1957-2018)
Pavithra Prabhakar (USA)
Mariëlle Stoelinga (The Netherlands)
Wang Yi (Sweden)
- Program Committee
Mohamadreza Ahmadi (USA)
Nicolas Basset (France)
Anne Bouillard (France)
Patricia Bouyer-Decitre (France)
Milan Ceska (Czech Republic)
Aiswarya Cyriac (India)
Rayna Dimitrova (UK)
Uli Fahrenberg (France)
Gilles Geeraerts (Belgium)
Arnd Hartmanns (The Netherlands)
Frédéric Herbreteau (France)
Laura Humphrey (USA)
Sebastian Junges (Germany)
Gethin Norman (UK)
Marco Paolieri (USA)
Guillermo Perez (Belgium)
Hasan Poonawala (USA)
Krishna S (India)
Ocan Sankur (France)
Ana Sokolova (Austria)
Jiri Srba (Denmark)
B Srivathsan (India)
Ufuk Topcu (USA)
Patrick Totzke (UK)
Jana Tumova (Sweden)
Frits W. Vaandrager (The Netherlands)
Masaki Waga (Japan)
Lijun Zhang (China)
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Nils Jansen
Assistant Professor
Department of Software Science
Radboud University Nijmegen
http://nilsjansen.org <http://nilsjansen.org/>_______________________________________________
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