FM 2006

 
August 21 - 27, 2006
McMaster University
Hamilton ON, Canada

Submission Dates

Technical Papers, Workshops and Tutorials

Friday February 24, 2006

Posters and Tools, Doctoral Symposium

Friday May 26, 2006

 

Notification Dates

Technical Papers

Friday April 28, 2006

Workshops and Tutorials

Friday March 10, 2006

Doctoral Symposium

Friday June 9, 2006

Posters and Research Tools

Friday June 12, 2006


Contact Information

General Inquiries

General Chair

Emil Sekerinski

Program Chairs

Jayadev Misra,
Tobias Nipkow

Workshops Chair

Tom Maibaum

Tutorials Chair

Jin Song Dong

Tools & Poster Chair

Marsha Chechik

Industry Day Chairs

Volkmar Lotz,
Asuman Suenbuel

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

Ana Cavalcanti

Augusto Sampaio

Jim Woodcock

Sponsorship Chair

Jürgen Dingel


Doctorial Symposium

August 22, 2006. ITB 222

For the first time, FM'06 will feature a Doctoral Symposium. Students are invited to submit short papers describing their work in progress. The authors of the accepted papers will present their work to the members of the Doctoral Symposium Committee, who will act as "friendly examiners", providing detailed feedback. Participation for students whose submissions are accepted will be subsidised. Two prizes will be awarded.

Like the FM´06 conference itself, the Doctoral Symposium welcomes submissions on all aspects of formal methods research, both theoretical and practical. The broad topics of interest of the Doctoral Symposium are:

  • Theoretical foundations
  • Specification and modelling
  • Refinement
  • Static analysis
  • Model-checking
  • Verification
  • Calculation
  • Reusable domain theories
  • Experience with introducing formal methods in industry
  • Case studies
  • Formal methods in hardware and system design
  • Method integration
  • Development process
  • Tools and environments

 

Submission Guidelines

Extended abstracts reporting on the current status of doctoral theses should be submitted by e-mail, as a PDF file, to the Doctoral Symposium Chair. Submissions are limited to 3 pages and must follow the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science format, which can be found in http://www.springeronline.com/lncs.

Submissions will be evaluated by the Committee according to their originality, significance, soundness, quality of presentation, and relevance with respect to the main topics of the symposium. Since the major purpose of the symposium is to provide feedback to doctoral students, possibly influencing the direction of their research, work in progress with some results, but still with some open issues, is in the ideal stage for submission.

 

Symposium Format

The Doctoral Symposium will take a full day, including around 8 presentations of 45 minutes each (20-25 minutes for presentation and 20-25 for discussion and feedback). The participating students and committee members will stay together during the entire day, including the presentations, discussions, coffee-breaks and lunch, giving plenty of opportunity for informal interaction.

 

Incentives for Participation

The Doctoral Symposium has no registration fees. On the day of the Doctoral Symposium, coffee breaks and a free lunch will be served. There will also be a limited number of grants for covering the registration fees for the FM'06 Technical Symposium.

 

Awards

Two prizes will be awarded in the context of the accepted submissions: a QinetiQ Award (for research contributions with strong practical applications) and Springer FACJ Award (for fundamental research). Both awards will consider the relevance of the work, the written and oral presentations.

 

Program

The Doctoral Symposium is open only to accepted students and the examiners.

9:00-9:15
Welcome and informal introduction.

9:15-10:00
Title: Towards Slicing Communicating Extended Automata
Authors: Sébastien Labbé and Jean-Pierre Gallois (Laboratoire Logiciels pour la Sûreté des Procédés, CEA-LIST)

10:00-10:45
Title: Formalizing Static Analysis Techniques with Kleene Algebra
Author: Therrezinha Fernandes (Département d'informatique et de génie logiciel, Université Laval)
Additional material at: http://agora.ulaval.ca/~thfer2/

10:45-11:15
Coffee Break

11:15-12:00
Title: A continuous-time approach to modelling and validating Simulink Models
Author: Chunqing Chen (School of Computing, National University of Singapore)
Additional material at: http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~chenchun/report

12:00-12:45
Title: Using Decomposition to Model Multi-Agent Interaction Protocols in Event-B
Authors: Elisabeth Ball and Michael Butler (School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton)

12:45-15:00
Lunch

15:00-15:45
Title: Symmetry Reduction in the ProB Model Checker
Authors: Edd Turner and Michael Butler (School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton)
Additional material at: http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~ent03r/fm06_links/fm06_links.html

15:45-16:30
Title: Hunting Obfuscated Malwares by Abstract Interpretation
Author: Mila Dalla Preda (Dipartimento di Informatica, University of Verona)
Additional material at: http://profs.sci.univr.it/~dallapre/MilaDallaPreda_Publications.html

16:30-17:00
Coffee Break

17:00-17:45
Title: Contracting and Proving Classes with Models
Author: Bernd Schoeller (Chair of Software Engineering, ETH Zurich)
Additional material at: http://se.inf.ethz.ch//people/schoeller/pdfs/schoeller_widmer_meyer_models.pdf

17:45-18:30
Title: Sound Object Model Refactorings
Authors: Rohit Gheyi and Paulo Borba (Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco)
Additional material at: http://www.cin.ufpe.br/~rg/fm.htm

 

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK)
Augusto Sampaio (UFPE, Brazil)
Jim Woodcock (University of York, UK)

 

Review Panel

Neil Audsley - (University of York, UK)
Alan Burns - (University of York, UK)
John Clark - (University of York, UK)
David Deharbe - (Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Steve Dunne - (University of Teesside, UK)
Andy Galloway - (University of York, UK)
Jeremy Gibbons - (University of Oxford, UK)
Will Harwood - (Citrix, UK)
Jeremy Jacob - (University of York, UK)
Ranko Lazic - (University of Warwick, UK)
Rogério Lemos - (University of Kent, UK)
Gerald Luettgen - (University of Kent, UK)
Paulo Maciel - (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Ana Melo - (Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil)
Alexandre Mota - (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
David Naumann - (Stevens Institute of Technology)
Richard Paige - (University of York, UK)
Fiona Polack - (University of York, UK)
Steve Schneider - (University of Surrey, UK)
Adnan Sherif - (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Fábio Silva - (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Susan Stepney - (University of York, UK)
Georg Struth - (University of Sheffield, UK)
Ian Toyn - (University of York, UK)
Helen Treharne - (University of Surrey, UK)
Heike Wehrheim - ( University of Paderborn, Germany)
Peter Welch - (University of Kent, UK)

 

Examination Panel


Ana Cavalcanti
Ridha Khedri
Jonathan Ostroff
Tom Maibaum
Dominique Mery
Augusto Sampaio
Jim Woodcock