FIT 2008

2nd International Workshop on                                             Foundations of Interface Technologies FIT 2008

http://fit2008.cs.aau.dk

Budapest, April 5, 2008 Collocated with ETAPS 2008

SCOPE & FORMULA

The FIT 2008 (http://fit2008.cs.aau.dk) workshop is held as part of           ETAPS 2008.

Component-based design is widely considered as a major approach to            developing systems in a time and cost effective way. Central in this approach is the notion of an interface. Interfaces summarize the externally visible properties of a component and are seen as a key to achieving component interoperability and to predict global system behavior based on the component behavior. To capture the intricacy of complex software products, rich interfaces have been proposed. These interfaces do not only specify syntactic properties, such as the signatures of methods and operations, but also take into account behavioral and extra-functional properties, such as quality of service, security and dependability. Rich interfaces have been proposed for describing, e.g., the legal sequences of messages or method calls accepted by components, or the resource and timing constraints in embedded software. The development of a rigorous framework for the specification and analysis of rich interfaces is challenging. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in the formal underpinnings of interface technologies.

Topics of interest:

*  Modeling of rich interfaces, handling aspects like o timeliness o QoS o safety o reliability o fault-tolerance o security o resource constraints o etc * Design methods for interfaces, design by contract * Verification & analysis of interfaces o abstraction o refinement o assume/guarantee reasoning o compositionality o property preservation * Domain-specific interfaces, use of interfaces, case studies

FIT embraces an inclusive formula that emphasizes interaction and discussion. No formal proceedings shall be published, except for hard copies distributed to participants. You are encouraged to submit new results, work in progress, work already published, or work submitted for publication elsewhere. Submissions will be judged on general quality and prospective interest to workshop participants.

We are considering soliciting a special journal issue for selected papers after the workshop has been held.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE

Submissions should be send by email to wasowski@itu.dk.

Papers should be between 5 and 15 pages in Springer's LNCS style, excluding a clearly marked appendix, which will be reviewed at the program committees discretion.

LOCATION

FIT 2008 will be collocated with ETAPS 2008 in Budapest. Workshop registration is handled by ETAPS organization committee.

INVITED SPEAKERS Albert Benveniste (IRISA / INRIA, Campus de Beaulieu) Mari??lle Stoelinga (University of Twente)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Holger Hermanns   (Saarland University) Micheal Huth      (Imperial College London) Kim G. Larsen     (University of Aalborg, CISS) Rupak Majumdar    (University of California, Los Angeles) Flemming Nielson  (The Technical University of Denmark) Jakob Rehof       (University of Dortmund, ISST) Mari??lle Stoelinga (University of Twente) Andrzej Wasowski  (IT University of Copenhagen) Lenore Zuck       (University of Illinois, Chicago)

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper Submission        December 14, 2007 Acceptance Notification January 8, 2008 Camera Ready            January 25, 2008 Workshop                April 5, 2008

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