Call for papers

ISoLA is a forum for developers, users, and researchers to discuss issues related to the adoption and use of rigorous tools for the specification analysis, verification, certification, construction, test, and maintenance of systems from the point of view of their different application domains. To bridge the gap between designers and developers of (formal methods based) rigorous tools, and users in engineering and in other disciplines, it fosters and exploits synergetic relationships among scientists, engineers, software developers, decision makers, and other critical thinkers. In particular, by providing a venue for the discussion of common problems, requirements, algorithms, methodologies, and practices, ISoLA aims to support researchers in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, flexibility and efficiency of tools for building systems and users in their search of adequate solutions to their problems. Applications and case studies with a conceptual message and experience papers with a clear link to tool construction are all encouraged. Particularly welcome are Regular contributions, Survey papers, and Tool demonstrations concerning

Use of

Deduction and model-checking
System construction and transformation techniques
Program analysis
Compositional and refinement-based methodologies
Testing and test-case generation
Techniques for real-time, hybrid and safety-critical systems
Tool environments and tool architectures

Application Areas

Automotive and mechanical engineering
Biomechanics, biocomputing, and healthcare
Electrical engineering, embedded systems, and controllers
Financial and banking sectors, E-commerce
Robotic Systems for Space Exploration
Telecommunications, Internet-based applications, Mobile Computing
Transportation and aviation
Transformation & processing-oriented industries
Interoperability (HW/SW, MEMs, ...) and Integration (legacy systems, ...)

Keynote Speaker

David Harel (Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel)

Deadlines

Papers submission (electronic): July 4th, 2004

Notification of acceptance: August 27th, 2004

Final version: September 26th, 2004

All accepted papers will be published in the symposiums´ proceedings.
Selected papers will appear in Post-Conference Proceedings (approval by Springer LNCS pending) and in Special Sections of international journals.
Awards will be given to outstanding contributions (best paper, industrial paper, student papers)

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