*********************************************************************** 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 *********************************************************************** ---------------- Important dates ---------------- 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 ---------- About ABZ ---------- 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. --------------- Main ABZ Track --------------- 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. --------------- Journal-First Track --------------- 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. ----------------- Case Study Track ----------------- 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. -------------------------------- Workshop and Tutorial Proposals -------------------------------- 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. ------------ Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=abz2023 ------------ 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. ------------------- Organization ------------------- 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