CALL FOR PAPERS FM-RAIL-BOK WORKSHOP 2013
23-24 September 2013, 2013, Madrid, Spain http://ssfmgroup.wordpress.com
A workshop in SEFM'13
September 25-27, 2013, Madrid, Spain
http://antares.sip.ucm.es/sefm2013/
MOTIVATION AND SCIENCE-PHILOSOPHICAL BACKGROUND Formal methods in software science and software engineering have existed at least as long as the term “software engineering” (NATO Science Conference, Garmisch, 1968) itself. In many engineering-based application areas, such as in the railway domain, formal methods have reached a level of maturity that already enables the compilation of a so-called body of knowledge (abbreviated as “BOK”). Its various methods and techniques include algebraic specification, process-algebraic modelling and verification, Petri nets, fuzzy logics, etc. For example, the B-method has been used successfully to verify the most relevant parts of a model of the Metro underground railway system of the city of Paris (France). Software tool support is already available for a number of those formal methods; for example in the form of various model checker or SAT solver programs.
In this context, our workshop shall bring together scientists, researchers and practitioners, from academia, the industry, professional guildes and engineering associations, national or international standardisation committees, as well as governmental or administrative regulators to re-collect and discuss the “state of the art” in the application of formal methods within the railway domain (including inner-city tram lines, urban mono-rail systems, etc., too). Thereby we shall adopt a methodological viewpoint based on Vincenti’s book "What Engineers know and how they know it: Analytical Studies from Aeronautical History, John Hopkins University Press, 1990". This book contains a science-historical and science-philosophical analysis of what it is that constitutes engineering knowledge (and the related practice) specifically, in other words: an epistemology of engineering. The development of the above-mentioned handbooks as an explicit recording of such knowledge is part of Vincenti’s epistemology.
SUBMISSION Our workshop calls for short position papers with strong emphasis on methodologically sound “BOK” contents and case-based “best practice” knowledge in the spirit of classical engineering handbooks.
Such papers, which will be reviewed and moderated by the workshop’s programme committee, must not exceed 6 pages in the IEEE double-column conference format
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
and must be submitted via our EasyChair Submission Website
http://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=fmrailbok2013
no later than the stipulated submission deadline. Submissions which do not meet these requirements will be rejected without review.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Paper submission deadline: 14 June 2013
Author notification: 5 July 2013
Re-submission of revised accepted papers: 16 August 2013
Distribution of revised papers amongst registered participants: 2 September 2013
Workshop in Madrid: 23-24 September 2013
Thereafter: post-discussions and further work towards the planned book release
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Anne Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark Markus Roggenbach, University of Swansea, Great Britain Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa Tom Maibaum, McMaster University, Canada
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE (confirmation status: 21 March 2013)
Martin Brennan, British Rail Safety Standards Board Simon Chadwick, Invensys Rail, Great Britain Lars-Henrik Eriksson, Uppsala University, Sweden Alessandro Fantechi, University of Firenze, Italy Michaela Huhn, Technical University of Clausthal, Germany Hoang Nga Nguyen, University of Swansea, Great Britain Jan Peleska, University of Bremen, Germany Holger Schlingloff, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan
Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, Great Britain Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia
WORKSHOP FORMAT Our workshop is planned as a workshop in the proper sense of the word, i.e.: it will be work-oriented, not presentation-oriented. During the workshop, smaller sub-groups will work on various sub-topics, whereas plenum sessions will bring the sub-groups and their sub-results together again.
For the sake of effective working during the event, all accepted papers will be distributed amongst the registered participants already before the event. Participants are expected to study these papers before the workshop, such that the discussions and sub-groups can commence effectively from the first hour of the meeting onwards.
Soon after the workshop, its work results (proceedings) shall be published first in the form of an institutional technical report. Thereafter the technical report shall be further “polished” and consolidated, with the goal of publishing an authoritative BOK book on the chosen topic, with a reputable publisher, in the not-too-far future.
In case of good success, similar BOK preparation workshops are planned for the future on other (yet similar) topics, for example: formal methods for aviation software, or formal methods for automobile applications, etc. In the long term, this could lead to a multi-volume series of such BOK books on various topics.
PUBLICATION According to our workshop’s goal and format we follow a 3-phase publication plan with informal distribution of accepted papers amongst registered workshop participants before the workshop, official release of an institutional technical report soon after the workshop, publication of a refined and consolidated BOK book in the not-too-far future, after the technical report, with a reputable scientific publisher.
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