Call for Paper Conference

Pisa, Italy, 17-18 September, 2010
http://www.di.unipi.it/FLACOS2010


ABOUT FLACOS:

The ability to negotiate contracts for a wide range of aspects and to
provide services conforming to them is a most pressing need in
service-oriented architectures. High-level models of contracts are
making their way, but application developers are still left to their
own devices when it comes to writing code that will comply with a
contract. At the programming language level, contracts appear as
separate concerns that cut across application logic, while analysis
requires that contracts are abstracted from applications to become
amenable to formal reasoning.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners working on language-based solutions to the above issues
through formalization of contracts, design of appropriate abstraction
mechanisms, and formal analysis of contract languages and
software. Such languages include, but are not limited to SLA, BPEL,
behavioral interfaces, deontic logic for services, social contracts
(multi-agent systems), formalised legal contracts and other
prescriptive formalisms.

The workshop will include presentations by a number of invited
speakers and others from researchers in the field who are encouraged
to submit an abstract of their work as an expression of interest in
participating in the workshop. The number of participants in the
workshop is strictly limited.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: April 15, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: June 1, 2010
Final Version Due: July 1, 2010
Early registration: July 15, 2010
WORKSHOP: September 17-18, 2010


SCOPE

Topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

* Formal languages for contracts
* Contract-oriented software development
* Formal analysis of contracts, including static analysis,
run-time verification,
and model checking techniques
* Contract synthesis
* Contract transformation and contract refinement
* Contract negotiation, discovery and monitoring


CONFIRMED INVITED PARTICIPANTS

* Fabio Massacci, Università di Trento
* Michael Papazoglou, Tilburg University
* Andreas Roth, SAP Research
* Marek Sergot, Imperial College London
* More to be announced


SUBMISSIONS

Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are invited to submit
an extended abstract of their work (3-8 pages, in PDF format, one
column, printable on A4 paper) to flacos2010@di.unipi.it by 15 April
2010. Submission of work submitted for formal publication elsewhere
and work in progress is permitted.

The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the
workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a
special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming
(Elsevier), following the standard reviewing process of the journal.

24-25 September 2009, Toledo - Spain
http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos09


The ability to negotiate contracts for a wide range of aspects and to provide services conforming to them is a most pressing need in service-oriented architectures. High-level models of contracts are making their way into service-oriented architectures, but application developers are still left to their own devices when it comes to writing code that will comply with a contract concluded just before service provisioning. At the programming language level, contracts appear as separate concerns that cut across application logic, while analysis requires that contracts are abstracted from applications to become amenable to formal reasoning using formal language techniques. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language-based solutions to the above issues through formalization of contracts, design of appropriate abstraction mechanisms, and formal analysis of contract languages and software.

The workshop will consist mainly of a number of presentations by invited speakers. A small number of additional sessions will be reserved for other researchers in the field who are encouraged to submit a short abstract of their work as an expression of interest in participating in the workshop by 8 June 2009. The number of participants in the workshop is strictly limited.

The previous editions of the workshop were held in Oslo in 2007 (FLACOS'07) and Malta in 2008 (FLACOS'08). The FLACOS workshops are partially supported by Nordunet3, under the project COSoDIS.


IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission Deadline: 8 June 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 15 June 2009
Registration Closes: 15 August 2009
WORKSHOP: 24-25 September 2009


SCOPE

Topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to):

• Formal languages for contracts
• Contract-oriented software development
• Formal analysis of contracts, including static analysis, run-time verification, and model checking techniques
• Contract synthesis
• Contract transformation and contract refinement
• Contract negotiation, discovery and monitoring

INVITED PARTICIPANTS

• Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software, Spain
• Antonio Maña, University of Málaga, Spain
• Ugo Montanari, Universita' di Pisa, Italy
  
• Wolfgang Reisig, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlina, Germany
• Alfonso Ríos, Maat G Knowledge, Spain
• Kaisa Sere, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
• Martin Wirsing, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
• More to be announced...

SUBMISSIONS

Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are invited to submit an extended abstract of their work (3-8 pages, in PDF format, one column, without page numbers, and printable on A4 paper) to flacos-09@dsi.uclm.es by 8 June 2009. Submission of work submitted for formal publication elsewhere and work in progress is permitted.

The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (Elsevier), following the standard reviewing process of the journal.


REGISTRATION INFORMATION

• More information to follow.