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ABZ 2023
9th International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods
Submission timeline
- 16 Jan 2023 Abstract registration
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30 Jan 2023
Full paper
23 Jan 2023→ 30 Jan 2023 +7 days - 6 Mar 2023 Notification
- 30 May 2023 Conference opens
What to submit
- Format
- 16 pages LNCS + references (research, case study) / 6 pages (short / work in progress / tool / journal-first) / 8 pages (application in industry)
- Proceedings
- Springer — Paywalled, for-profit
Deadline extended by 20 days (2014), 7 days (2018, 2021, 2023).
Call for papers
- After a deadline extension ABZ-2023-extended.txt · TXT · shown below
- As first published ABZ-2023.txt · TXT
The call, as published
Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement, after a deadline extension. The conference’s own page is at abz2023.loria.fr/.
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Last Call for Papers (extension of deadlines)
ABZ 2023: International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods
LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.
May 30-June 2, 2023
https://abz2023.loria.fr
submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2023
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Important dates
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Workshops/Tutorials
Workshop proposal submission: November 01, 2022
Workshop notification: November 15, 2022
Tutorial proposal submission: February 16, 2023
Case Study Track (new dates)
Abstract submission: (December 05 2022) January 06, 2023
Paper submission: (December 18) 2022) January 23, 2023
Notification: (January 28, 2023) March 06, 2023
Final version: ( March 06, 2023) March 27, 2023
Main Track and Journal-Firest Track (new dates)
Abstract submission (optional) : January 16, 2023
Paper submission : January 30, 2023
(including research/short/industry papers)
Notification: March 6, 2023
Final version: March 27, 2023
Doctoral Symposium
Paper submission: January 30, 2023
Notification: March 6, 2023
Final version: March 27, 2023
Conference
Workshops and Tutorials : May 30, 2023
ABZ 2023 conference: May 31-June 02, 2023
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About ABZ
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The ABZ conference is dedicated to the cross-fertilization of state-based and machine-based formal methods, like Abstract State Machines (ASM), Alloy, B, TLA, VDM and Z, that share a common conceptual foundation and are widely used in both academia and industry for the design and analysis of hardware and software systems. The conference aims for a vital exchange of knowledge and experience among the research communities around different formal methods.
The name ABZ goes back to the first conference in London in 2008,
where the ASM, B and Z conference series were merged into a joint
event. In the following years other formal methods were added,
e.g. Alloy in 2010 (Orford, Canada), VDM in 2012 (Pisa, Italy), and
TLA + in 2014 (Toulouse, France). After the also successful 2016
conferences in Linz, Austria and 2018 in Southampton, UK, it was
decided to name the conference "ABZ: International Conference on
Rigorous State Based Methods", to stress the openness for further
state-based formal methods. We hope to continue many fruitful
discussions between representatives of the individual methods in the
past, which will bring us closer to the common goal of this research
community: the creation of reliable and safe software. ABZ2020 and
ABZ2021 were the two first new entitled conferences planned in Ulm but
virtually organised.
ABZ 2023 will have a main conference track, a case study track, tutorials and workshops.
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Main ABZ Track
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Contributions are solicited on all aspects of the theory and applications of ASMs, Alloy, B, TLA, VDM, Z and other state-based rigour approaches in software/hardware engineering, including the development of tools and industrial applications. The program spans from theoretical and methodological foundations to practical applications, emphasizing system engineering methods and tools that are distinguished by mathematical rigor and have proved to be industrially viable. The main goal of the conference is to contribute to the integration of accurate state- and machine-based system development methods, clarifying their commonalities and differences to better understand how to combine different approaches for accomplishing the various tasks in modeling, experimental validation, mathematical verification of reliable high-quality hardware/software systems. Although organized to host several formal methods in a single event, editorial control of the joint conference is vested in one integrated program committee.
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Journal-First Track
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Journal-First papers are summarising recently published papers in high-quality journals
The aim of journal-first papers is to further enrich the program of
ABZ and to provide more visibility to an already published journal papers in the scope of the ABZ conference.
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Case Study Track
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As successfully practiced since ABZ 2014, the 10th edition of ABZ will again include special sessions dedicated to an industrial case study. We explicitly invite you to also submit contributions to case studies from previous conferences, which substantially extend the solutions presented there in one aspect or another. Possible enhancements could be new proof techniques, more elegant modeling, generation, verification, or validation of executable code, etc.
See https://abz2023.loria.fr/case-study for a detailed description of the new case study and links to the previous ones.
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Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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Workshops and tutorials will be associated with the main event ABZ. Proposals are solicited in areas related to the conference topics.
A workshop proposal should contain the title of the workshop, a short description of the scientific content, the names and brief CVs of the workshop organizers, the intended PC for the workshop, the duration of the workshop, and the expected number of participants.
A tutorial proposal should contain the title of the tutorial, a short description of the scientific content, the names and brief CVs of the tutorial presenters and the duration.
Please submit your proposals to dominique dot mery at loria.fr.
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Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2023
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Six kinds of contributions are invited:
* Full Research papers: full papers of not more than 16 pages in LNCS format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere.
* Short presentations of work in progress, and tool demonstrations.An extended abstract of not more than 6 pages is expected and will be reviewed.
* Application in industry papers: reporting on work or experiences
on the application of state based formal methods in industry. An
extended abstract of not more than 8 pages is expected and will
be reviewed. It is also an interesting option for industrial
practitioners who sometimes face too many constraints to prepare
a full paper.
* Journal-First papers: papers of not more than 6 pages in LNCS format, which have to be original, unpublished and not submitted elsewhere.
* Answers to case study papers: full papers of not more than 16
pages in LNCS format reporting on the experiments conducted with
any of the state based techniques in the scope of ABZ 2023. We
also expect a link to a webpage, where the produced models can be
downloaded.
* Contribution to doctoral symposium:This is an excellent opportunity for PhD students to present their ongoing work and receive valuable feedback from the ABZ community. Please submit a short paper of no more than 4 pages
All page limits exclude the references. Appendices may be included,
but they will only be read by a reviewer at their discretion.
Accepted papers will appear in the Springer LNCS proceedings. The deadlines for the different kinds of contributions see above.
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Organization
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Conference Chairs:
Uwe Glässer (CoChair), Simon Fraser University, Canada
Dominique Méry (CoChair), Université de Lorraine & LORIA, France
Case Study Chairs:
José Creissac Campos, Departamento de Informática - Universidade do Minho, Portugal.
Philippe Palanque, Interactive Critical Systems - IRIT- Univ. Toulouse, France
Doctoral Symposium Chairs
Silvia Bonfanti, University of Bergamo, Italy
Guillaume Dupont, IRIT/INPT, France
Programme Committee
Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France
Étienne André, LIPN , Université Paris 13, France
Christian Attiogbé, L2N , Université de Nantes, France
Richard Banach, University of Manchester, UK
Maurice ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Italy
Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft; USA
Jean-Paul Bodeveix, IRIT, France
Egon Boerger, Università di Pisa, Italy
Eerke Boiten, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
Silvia Bonfanti, University of Bergamo, Italy
Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK
Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin; Ireland
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK
José Creissac Campos, University of Minho & HASLab/INESC TEC, Portugal
David Deharbe, ClearSy System Engineering, France
Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, UK
Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France
Guillaume Dupont, IRIT/INPT, France
Marie Farrell, The University of Manchester, UK
BFlavio Ferrarotti, Software Competence Centre Hagenberg, Austria
Marc Frappier, University of Sherbrooke, Canada
Angelo Gargantini, University of Bergamo, Italy
Vincenzo Gervasi, University of Pisa, Italy
Uwe Glaesser, Simon Frazer University, Canda
Gudmund Grov, University of Oslo, Norway
Stefan Hallerstede, Aarhus University, Denmark
Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Ian J. Hayes, The University of Queensland, Australia
Thai Son Hoang, University of Southampton, U7K
Frank Houdek, Mercedes-Benz AG, Austria
Alexei Iliasov, The Formal Route, UK
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Igor Konnov, Informal Systems, Austria
Olga Kouchnarenko, University of Franche-Comté
Markus Alexander Kuppe, Microsoft USA
Regine Laleau, Paris Est Creteil University, France
Thierry Lecomte, CLEARSY, France
Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck, Germany
Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
Z Alexei Lisitsa, University of Liverpool, Germany
Nuno Macedo, University of Porto & INESC TEC, Portugal
Frederic Mallet, Universite Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France
Tiziana Margaria, Lero University of Limerick , Ireland
Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace (NIA), USA
Atif Mashkoor, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
Jackson Mayo, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, LORIA, France
Stephan Merz, Inria LORIA, France
Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Rosemary Monahan, Maynooth University, Ireland
Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI - University of Bordeaux, France
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Uwe Nestmann, TU Berlin, Germany
Jose Oliveira, University of Minho, Portugal
Philippe Palanque, ICS-IRIT, University Toulouse 3, France
Luigia Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
Andreas Prinz, University of Agder, Austria
Philippe Queinnec, IRIT - Université de Toulouse, France
Alexander Raschke, Ulm University, Germany
Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK
Patrizia Scandurra, University of Bergamo, Italy
Gerhard Schellhorn, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China
Steve Schneider, University of Surrey, UK
Neeraj Singh, INPT-ENSEEIHT / IRIT, University of Toulouse, France
Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden
Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France
Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada
Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIS, France
Naijun Zhan, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Huibiao Zhu, East China Normal University, China
Wolf Zimmermann, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, FGermanby
For further questions concerning ABZ 2023, please contact us at dominique dot mery at loria.fr