Dear all,
We hope you will be doing great. We are writing this to you for the 8th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems. Please consider the below call, submit your work and join us for the workshop. Also please help us to circulate the call by sharing with your network.
Call for Papers: FAACS 2024
The 8th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems (FAACS 2024), co-located with the 21st IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture (ICSA 2024), will be held in IIIT Hyderabad, India June 4-8, 2024.
Web: https://faacs-workshop.github.io/2024/
Twitter/X handle: @faacs_ws
Important Dates:
– Submission Deadline: February 18, 2024
– Notification of Papers: March 17, 2024
– Camera Ready: March 31, 2024
– Workshop Date: June 4 – 5, 2024
*** Motivation and Scope ***
Cutting-edge technologies, infrastructures, and computational paradigms such as digital twin, cloud, fog, edge computing, IoT, digitalization, Industry 5.0, and cyber-physical systems are changing how data and services are delivered and used. Such systems have a significant and elaborate societal impact, making it paramount to guarantee essential qualities of the delivered product, such as dependability, reliability, safety, and availability. As new paradigms become pervasive in our everyday lives, new challenges also emerge in dealing with uncertainty, untrustworthiness, and information loss, affecting the software life cycle in different phases. Ensuring critical qualities requires a joint effort in devising advanced software architecture designs by the software architecture community and formal modeling and verification approaches by the formal methods community.
The main goal of the workshop is to foster integration between formal methods and software architecture promoting new connections and synergies between the two communities to address the challenges of the upcoming generation of computing systems. Aligned with the theme of the ICSA 2024, we welcome contributions on the potential and risks of generative AI in developing advanced software architectures and ensuring qualities like dependability, reliability, safety, and availability through formal modeling and verification.
*** Topics of Interest include (but are not limited to) the following: ***
- requirements formalization and formal specification, with or without the use of generative AI;
- formal/semi-formal architecture design, validation and verification, quality analysis and evaluation;
- formal/semi-formal approaches to digitalization, development of digital society and Digital Twins;
- methodologies and approaches focusing on addressing challenges of modern computing systems that are currently addressed ad-hoc;
- architecture description languages and metamodels;
- architectural patterns, styles and tactics, viewpoints and views;
- architecture transformation and refinement, architecture based synthesis;
- model-driven engineering;
- approaches and tools for verification and validation;
- performance analysis based on formal approaches;
- compliance assurance using formal methods;
- application of methodologies, theories, approaches and techniques specific to the aforementioned areas to AI-based, autonomous, robotic, cyber-physical, and self-adaptive systems;
- use of generative AI for aforementioned areas
- reports on practical experience in the application of formal methods to industrial case studies.
*** Types of Papers ***
FAACS 2024 solicits:
Full papers (Max 8 pages including references): original research contributions, case studies, or report on work or experiences in industry;
Short papers (Max 4 pages including references): work-in-progress, new and emerging ideas, techniques and/or tools or extensions not fully validated yet, or outstanding challenges along with possible approaches for resolving them.
*** Best Paper Award ***
Based on the reviews and PC discussion, up to two papers will be selected for the Best Paper Award.
*** Submission ***
All submissions will follow the IEEE Computer Science proceedings format. Submitted papers must be written in English and conform to the the IEEE Guidelines including the guidelines for AI-Generated text. Submissions must be done before the deadline in PDF format via via the EasyChair submission system.
*** Panel Discussion ***
We are planning to have an expert panel session related to above specified topics of interest. Please contact the program co-chairs if you are interested in joining the expert panel or would like to nominate someone who you would like to be part of the expert panel.
Program Co-chairs
Nadeem Abbas, Linnaeus University, Sweden, (nadeem.abbas(a)lnu.se<mailto:nadeem.abbas@lnu.se>)
Livia Lestingi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, (livia.lestingi(a)polimi.it<mailto:livia.lestingi@polimi.it>)
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy, (patrizia.scandurra(a)unibg.it<mailto:patrizia.scandurra@unibg.it>)
Steering Committee
– Paolo Arcaini, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
– Matteo Camilli, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy
– Marina Mongiello, Politecnico di Bari, Italy
– Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
– Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Regards
Nadeem
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Nadeem Abbas, PhD
Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor
Linnaeus University
Department of Computer Science and Media Technology
351 95 Växjö Sweden
+46-470-767411 (office)
+46-702-017249 (Mobile)
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nadeem.abbas(a)lnu.se<mailto:nadeem.abbas@lnu.se>
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Call for Submissions: I am Program Chair for the 8th International Workshop on Formal Approaches for Advanced Computing Systems<https://faacs-workshop.github.io/2024/>, which will be colocated with ICSA 2024<https://conf.researchr.org/home/icsa-2024> at IIIT Hyderabad India. The call for submission of papers will be released soon. It will be great if you yourself can make a submission and also request your network to submit. ICSA is a premier conference on software architecture and accepted papers are published in ICSA Companion proceedings, and indexed in IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
(Apologies for cross-postings, if any)
SAT 2024 is the 27th edition of the International Conference on Theory
and Applications of Satisfiability Testing (SAT). The scope of SAT 2024
includes all aspects of the theory and applications of propositional
satisfiability, broadly construed. This also includes Boolean
optimization, such as MaxSAT and Pseudo-Boolean (PB) constraints,
Quantified Boolean Formulas (QBF), Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT),
Model Counting, and Constraint Programming (CP) for problems with clear
connections to Boolean-level reasoning.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Theoretical advances (including algorithms, proof complexity,
parameterized complexity, and other complexity issues)
* Practical search algorithms
* Knowledge compilation
* Implementation-level details of SAT and SMT solving tools and
SAT/SMT-based systems
* Problem encodings and reformulations
* Applications (including novel application domains and
improvements to existing applications)
* Case studies and reports on insightful findings based on rigorous
experimentation
Out of Scope
Papers claiming to resolve a major long-standing open theoretical
question in Mathematics or Computer Science (such as those for which a
Millennium Prize is offered), are outside the scope of the conference
because there is insufficient time in the schedule to referee such
papers; instead, such papers should be submitted to an appropriate
technical journal.
Paper Categories
Submissions to SAT 2024 are invited in the following three categories:
* Long papers (9 to 15 pages, excluding references and appendices)
* Short papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices)
* Tool papers (up to 8 pages, excluding references and appendices)
Long and short papers should contain original research, with sufficient
detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. For
papers reporting experimental results, authors are strongly encouraged
to make their data and implementation available with the submission.
Submissions on applications and case studies are encouraged. Such papers
should describe details, weaknesses and strengths of the proposed
approaches in sufficient depth, but they are not expected to introduce
novel solving methods.
Long and short papers will be evaluated with the same quality standards,
and are expected to contain a similar contribution per page ratio. The
authors should choose between a long or a short paper depending on the
space they need to fully describe their contribution.The classification
between long and short papers impacts the duration of the presentation
of the work during the conference. It is the responsibility of the
authors to make sure that their paper is self-contained in the chosen
limit of pages. There will be no re-classification of submissions by the
PC.
Tool papers are expected to report on the design and implementation of a
tool, its novel features, strengths, limitations and potential
applications. A “tool” is interpreted in a broad sense, including
descriptions of solvers, preprocessors etc., as well as systems that
exploit SAT and related solvers or their extensions for use in a
relevant problem domain. A demonstration is expected to accompany a tool
presentation. Papers describing tools that have already been presented
previously are expected to contain significant and clear enhancements to
the tool.
Submission
Submissions should not be under review elsewhere nor be submitted
elsewhere while under review for SAT 2024, and should not consist of
previously published material. Submissions not consistent with these
guidelines may be returned without review.
Papers must be formatted in the LIPIcs LaTeX style available at
https://submission.dagstuhl.de/series/details/LIPIcs#author
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sat2024
The reviewing process for SAT 2024 is single-blind.
Authors may submit a supplement containing detailed proofs, examples,
software, detailed experimental data, or other material related to the
submission, to be consulted at the discretion of the reviewers. The
supplement should not be used as overflow space for the main paper,
which should be self-contained for review purposes. Supplements will be
treated with the same degree of confidentiality as the paper
itself. The supplement must consist of a single file in one of the
following formats: zipped tarball (.tar.gz or .tgz), gzipped file (.gz),
or zip archive (.zip).
One author of each accepted paper is expected to register for the
conference and present it there.
Important dates
Abstract submission: March 8, 2024 AoE
Full paper submission: March 15, 2024 AoE
Author response: May 9-13, 2024 AoE
Notification of decisions: May 22, 2024 AoE
Camera-ready version submission: July 1, 2024 AoE
Workshops & Indian SAT+SMT School: August 18-20, 2024
SAT conference: August 21-24, 2024
Best Paper Awards
Long and short papers may be considered for a Best Paper Award. If the
main author is a student, both in terms of work and writing, the paper
may be considered for a Best Student Paper Award.
Proceedings
All accepted papers will be published as proceedings of the conference
in the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) as a
free, open, electronic archive with access to all. Authors will retain
full rights over their work. The accepted papers will be published
under a CC-BY license.
For more information, please visit http://satisfiability.org/SAT24
