CFP: 4PAD special track @ PDP 2017

== CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================

4th PDP special session on
FORmal approaches to PArallel and Distributed systems (4PAD 2017)

St. Petersburg, Russia, 6-8 March 2017

http://www.pdp2017.org/4pad.html
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Important dates
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Paper submission: 25th Aug 2016
Acceptance notification: 25th Oct 2016
Camera ready due: 20th Nov 2016
Conference: 6th - 8th Mar 2017


Scope
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The aim of 4PAD is to foster interaction between the formal methods
communities and systems researchers working on topics in modern
parallel, distributed, and network-based processing systems
(e.g. autonomous computing systems, cloud computing systems,
service-oriented systems and parallel computing architectures).


Topics
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We solicit papers in all areas of the above mentioned systems,
including (but not limited to):
- Rigorous software engineering approaches and their tool support;
- Model-based approaches, including model-driven development;
- Service- and component-based approaches;
- Semantics, types and logics;
- Formal specification and verification;
- Performance analysis based on formal approaches;
- Formal aspects of programming paradigms and languages;
- Formal approaches to parallel architectures and weak memory models;
- Formal approaches to deployment, run-time analysis,
   adaptation/evolution, reconfiguration, and monitoring;
- Case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches;
- Formal stochastic models and analysis;
- Formal methods for large-scale distributed systems;
- Statistical analysis techniques based on formal approaches.


Submission guidelines
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Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages
in the Conference proceedings format (double-column, 10pt) to the
conference main track through the EasyChair conference submission
system (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2017).

Double-blind review: the paper should not contain authors names and
affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors' own
work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind
review”.


Proceedings
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All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by
the Conference Publishing Services (CPS).  The Final Paper Preparation
and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification
of acceptance.  Authors of accepted papers are expected to register
and present their papers at the Conference.  Conference proceedings
will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL and, for indexing, among
others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect and ISI Web of Knowledge.


Special Issue
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Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of
the Journal of Logical and Algebraic Methods in Programming (JLAMP).

Additional information about the journal:
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-logical-and-algebraic-methods-in-programming


Session Chairs
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Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland)
Borzoo Bonakdarpour (McMaster University, Canada)


Program Committee
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(additional members TBC)

Gul Agha (University of Illinois, US)
Michele Amoretti (SITEIA.PARMA - University of Parma, IT)
Farhad Arbab (CWI/University of Leiden, NL)
Lacramioara Astefanoaei (FORTIS, DE)
Paul Attie (American University of Beirut, LB)
Simon Bliudze (Ecole polytechnique federale de Lausanne, CH)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Borzoo Bonakdarpour (McMaster University, CA)
Albert Cohen (INRIA/Ecole Normale Superieure - Paris, FR)
Fathiyeh Faghih (McMaster University, CA)
Ludovic Henrio (CNRS, FR)
Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, NL)
Igor Konnov (Vienna University of Technology, AT)
Sandeep Kulkrani (Michigan State University, US)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, DK)
Frédéric Loulergue (University of Orleans, FR)
Neeraj Mittal (University of Texas at Dallas, US)
Sergio Rajsbaum (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, MX)
Sven Schewe (University of Liverpool, UK)
Elena Sherman (Boise State University, US)
Francesco Tiezzi (University of Camerino, IT)
Sebastien Tixeuil (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6, FR)
Enrico Tronci (Sapienza University of Rome, IT)
Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester, UK)