ICFEM2019: The twenty-first International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods Shenzhen, China, November 5-9, 2019 |
Conference website | http://csse.szu.edu.cn/icfem2019/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2019 |
Abstract registration deadline | May 14, 2019 |
Submission deadline | May 21, 2019 |
Since it was started in Hiroshima, Japan in 1997, ICFEM has provided a forum for both researchers and practitioners who are interested in developing practical formal methods for software engineering or applying existing formal techniques to improve software development process in practice. Formal methods for the development of computer systems have been extensively researched and studied. We now have good theoretical understandings of how to describe what programs do, how they do it, and why they work. A range of semantic theories, specification languages, design techniques, verification methods, and supporting tools have been developed and applied to the construction of programs of moderate size that are used in critical applications. The remaining challenge now is how to deal with problems in developing and maintaining large scale and complex computer systems.
The goal of this conference is to bring together industrial, academic, and government experts, from a variety of user domains and software disciplines, to help advance the state of the art. Researchers, practitioners, tool developers and users, and technology transfer experts are all welcome. We are interested in work that has been incorporated into real production systems, and in theoretical work that promises to bring practical, tangible engineering benefits.
ICFEM 2019 will be organized and sponsored by Shenzhen University and will be held in the attractive and enjoyable city Shenzhen during November 5th-9th, 2019. We are looking forward to your contribution and participation.
Submission Guidelines
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 2019 submission page (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2019), handled by the EasyChair conference management system.
List of Topics
Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal engineering methods and their practical applications will also be considered.
- Abstraction, refinement and evolution
- Formal specification and modeling
- Program analysis
- Formal verification
- Model checking
- Formal approaches to software testing and inspection
- Formal methods for self-adaptive systems
- Formal methods for object-oriented systems
- Formal methods for component-based systems
- Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems
- Formal methods for cloud computing
- Formal methods for 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
Committees
Program Committee
- Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria
- Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France
- Étienne André, Université Paris 13, France
- Christian Attiogbe, Université de Nantes, France
- Guangdong Bai, Griffith University, Australia
- Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
- Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
- Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
- Franck Cassez, Macquarie University, Australia
- Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom
- Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China
- Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
- Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
- Sylvain Conchon, Université Paris-Sud, France
- Florin Craciun, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
- Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands
- Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China
- Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia
- Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China
- Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
- Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
- Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- John Hatcliff, Kansas State University, United States
- Xudong He, Florida International University, United States
- Fuyki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Jie-Hong Roland Jiang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
- Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Université & CNRS, France
- Mark Lawford, McMaster University, Canada
- Michael Leuschel, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
- Yuan-Fang Li, Monash University, Australia
- Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China
- Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
- Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China
- Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China
- Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology, Australia
- Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia
- Dominique Méry, Loria & Université de Lorraine, France
- Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France
- Mohammad Reza Mousavi, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
- Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
- Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
- Peter olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
- Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
- Xin Peng, Fudan University, China
- Geguang Pu, East China Normal University, China
- Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom
- Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy
- Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
- Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
- Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University-UIUC Institute (ZJUI), China
- Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
- Meng Sun, Peking University, China
- Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
- Cong Tian, Xidian University, China
- Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden
- Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom
- Virginie Wiels, The French aerospace Research lab ONERA, France
- Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China
- Naijun Zhan, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Jian Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
- Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China
Organizing committee
- Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China
Invited Speakers
To be announced
Publication
Proceedings of ICFEM'2019 will be published by Springer as an LNCS volume.
Venue
Shenzhen is located on a southern tip of the Chinese mainland and on the eastern bank of the Pearl River. It neighbors Hong Kong.
Shenzhen, the country's first special economic zone, was established here in 1980. In merely 36 years, this city has grown into a modern metropolis.
The city is the high-tech and manufacturing hub of southern China, home to the world's third-busiest container port and the fourth-busiest airport on the Chinese mainland. It is one of the country's most popular tourist destinations. It was also elected one of the top 10 Chinese cities popular with expats in 2015. The high-tech, financial services, modern logistics and cultural industries are mainstays of the city. Emerging industries of strategic importance and modern service industries are quickly becoming new engines for the city's economic growth. Shenzhen has set up new standards of "Shenzhen Quality" and "China Quality" on sustainable development and globalization.
The city is also well-known for design, with more than 6,000 design companies employing more than 60,000 people. On Nov. 19, 2008, UNESCO named Shenzhen a member of its Creative Cities Network and awarded Shenzhen the title of City of Design. The total number of IF Design Award won by Shenzhen designers in 2015 was 42, topping China.
Shenzhen will strive to achieve bigger goals by continuing to adopt Shenzhen Quality and Shenzhen Standards, aiming at world first-class standards and establishing a quality and standard system covering the areas of economy, society, culture, urban development and ecology. It will strive to build itself into a beautiful city where people can live happily and make dreams come true by improving quality, creating brands, building up reputation, expanding market, and achieving sustained economic development.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to
- Yamine Ait-Ameur, INPT-ENSEEIHT, France
- Shengchao Qin, University of Teesside, UK
Sponsors
To be announced