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ICFEM 2011
13th International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods
*** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS ***
25-28 Oct 2011
Radisson BLU Hotel, Durham, UK
URL: http://www.scm.tees.ac.uk/icfem2011
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Since 1997, ICFEM has provided a forum for those interested in the application of formal engineering methods
to computer systems.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, tangible benefit.

ICFEM 2011 is organised by Teesside University and will be held in the old historic Durham City in the North East of
England (http://www.thisisdurham.com/).


AREA AND TOPICS

Submissions related to the following principal themes are encouraged, but any topics relevant to the field of formal methods
and their support environments will also be considered:

* Abstraction and refinement
* Formal specification and modelling
* Software verification
* Program analysis
* Software model checking
* Formal approaches to software testing
* Formal methods for object and component systems
* Concurrency and software transaction memory
* Formal methods for cloud computing
* Software inspection
* Formal methods for cyber-physical systems
* Tool development and integration
* Software safety, security and reliability
* Experiments involving verified systems
* Applications of formal methods
* 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 done through the ICFEM 2011 submission page (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icfem2011), handled by the EasyChair
conference system. All queries should be sent to the e-mail address icfem2011@scm.tees.ac.uk.


IMPORTANT DATES

31 March, 2011: Abstract submission deadline
7 April, 2011: Full-paper submission deadline
8 June, 2011: Acceptance/rejection notification
6 July, 2011: Camera-ready version due


ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE

Honorary Chairs:

Marc Cavazza, Teesside University
Cliff Hardcastle, Teesside University

General Chairs:

Phil Brooke, Teesside University, UK
Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, UK

Program Chairs:

Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, UK
Zongyan Qiu, Peking University, UK

Program Committee:

Bernhard K. Aichernig (Graz University of Technology, Austria)
Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan)
Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Richard Banach (University of Manchester, UK)
Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA)
Jonathan P. Bowen (University of Westminster, UK)
Michael Butler (University of Southampton, UK)
Andrew Butterfield (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK)
Wei-Ngan Chin (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Florin Craciun (Soter Sys, Romania)
Thao Dang (French National Center for Scientific Research, France)
Jim Davies (Oxford University, UK)
Dino Distefano (Queen Mary College, University of London, UK)
Jin-Song Dong (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
Zhenhua Duan (Xidian University, China)
J. S. Fitzgerald (Newcastle University, UK)
Leo Freitas (Newcastle University, UK)
Joaquim Gabarro (Universitat Polit¨¨cnica de Catalunya, Spain)
Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy) Anthony Hall (Consultant)
Ian J. Hayes (The University of Queensland, Australia)
Mike Hinchey (Lero, Ireland)
Zhenjiang Hu (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Michael Jackson (Consultant)
Thierry J¨¦ron (INRIA , France)
Gerwin Klein (NICTA, Australia)
Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Michael Leuschel (Heinrich-Heine Universit?t D¨¹sseldorf, Germany)
Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China)
Shaoying Liu (Hosei University, Japan)
Zhiming Liu (UNU/IIST, Macau)
Tiziana Margaria (University of Potsdam, Germany)
Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France)
Huaikou Miao (Shanghai University, China)
Peter M¨¹ller (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Matthew Parkinson (Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK)
Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China)
Shengchao Qin (Teesside University, UK)
Zongyan Qiu (Peking University, China)
Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Thomas Santen (Microsoft Innovations Center Aachen, Germany)
Wuwei Shen (Western Michigan University, USA)
Marjan Sirjani (Reykjavik University, Iceland)
Bill Stoddart (Teesside University, UK)
Jing Sun (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
Kenji Taguchi (AIST, Japan)
Tetsuo Tamai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
T.H. Tse (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
Viktor Vafeiadis (MPI-SWS, Germany)
Miroslav Velev (Aries Design Automation, USA)
Laurent Voisin (Systerel, France)
Hai H. Wang (Aston University, UK)
Ji Wang (National University of Defense Technology, China)
Heike Wehrheim (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK)
Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Jian Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
Hong Zhu (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China)


Steering Committee

Keijiro Araki, Japan
Jin Song Dong, Singapore
Chris George, Canada
Jifeng He, China
Mike Hinchey, Ireland
Shaoying Liu (Chair), Japan
John McDermid, UK
Tetsuo Tamai, Japan
Jim Woodcock, UK