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Beijing, China, September 4–6, 2018
Conference website: http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/formats2018/
Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=formats2018
Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh, USC, Los Angeles, USA: Stochastic Temporal Logic Abstractions: Challenges and Opportunities
Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley, USA: Models of Timed Systems
Control and analysis of the timing of computations is crucial to many domains of system engineering, be it, e. g., for ensuring timely response to stimuli originating in an uncooperative environment, or for synchronising components in VLSI. Reflecting this broad scope, timing aspects of systems from a variety of domains have been treated independently by different communities in computer science and control. 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, as well as of the dynamics of the controlled process during this span.
Timing-related questions in these separate disciplines do have their particularities. However, there is a growing awareness that there are basic problems (of both scientific and engineering level) 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 successive events. Often, these constraints cannot be separated, as the intrinsic dynamics of processes couples them, necessitating models, methods, and tools facilitating their combined analysis. Reflecting this, FORMATS 2018 promotes submissions on hybrid discrete-continuous systems, and will promote a special session on this topic.
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 and, as a generalisation, of hybrid systems. Typical topics include (but are not limited to):
| Abstract submission: | 18 April 2018 (FIRM) AOE | |
| Paper submission: | 18 April 2018 (FIRM) | |
| Notification: | 25 May 2018 | |
| Final paper due: | 18 June 2018 | |
| Conference: | 4–6 September 2018 |
See the registration page of CONFESTA. All the registration process (including payment) is carried out by the CONFESTA 2018 organisation. There is a single registration that allows participants to visit sessions of each participating conference at will, but associated workshops require separate registration.
| Program committee chairs: | David N. Jansen (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University, USA) | |
| Program committee: |
Sergiy Bogomolov (Australian National University, Australia) Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Iowa State Univ., USA) Patricia Bouyer (LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, Univ. Paris Saclay, France) Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG, France) Martin Fränzle (Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg, Germany) Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan) Boudewijn Haverkort (Univ. of Twente, Netherlands) Holger Hermanns (Saarland Univ., Germany) Jan Křetínský (Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany) Martin Leucker (Univ. of Lübeck, Germany) Miroslav Pajic (Duke Univ., NC, USA) David Parker (Univ. of Birmingham, UK) Krishna S. (IIT Bombay, India) César Sánchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) Ocan Sankur (Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France) Zhikun She (School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beihang Univ., Beijing, China) Jiří Srba (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) B. Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India) Meng Sun (Peking Univ., China) Cong Tian (Xidian Univ., China) Ashutosh Trivedi (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, USA) Frits Vaandrager (Radboud Univ., Netherlands) Mahesh Viswanathan (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) | |
| Steering committee: | Rajeev Alur (Univ. of Pennsylvania, USA) Eugene Asarin (IRIF, Univ. Paris Diderot, France) Martin Fränzle (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany) Thomas A. Henzinger (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria) Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen, Germany) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg Univ., Denmark) Oded Maler (VERIMAG, CNRS-UGA, France) Lothar Thiele (ETH Zürich, Switzerland) Wang Yi (Uppsala Univ., Sweden) |
As traditional, publication of the proceedings of FORMATS 2018 will be hosted by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. During the conference, participants have free online access to the proceedings from this webpage.
See the venue page of CONFESTA. The conference will take place in the UCAS campus in Huairou, a district in the northern part of Beijing, China, where it is part of CONFESTA and is colocated with CONCUR 2018, QEST 2018 and SETTA 2018.
Please address questions to formats2018@easychair.org.
Outdated information, kept for reference:
FORMATS 2018 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 and ethical guidelines. In particular, every author has contributed sufficiently to the intellectual scientific work. Submissions should not exceed 15 pages in length (not including the bibliography, which is thus not restricted), but may be supplemented with a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the discretion of the program committee.
Each paper will undergo a thorough review process.
Papers are to be submitted electronically via the EasyChair online submission system.