MeTRiD 2018: Deadline extension (ETAPS workshop)

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                      !!! DEADLINE EXTENSION !!!

                    1st International Workshop on
             Methods and Tools for Rigorous System Design
                             MeTRiD 2018

                 Thessaloniki, Greece, 15 April 2018

                 https://project.inria.fr/metrid2018

(satellite workshop of ETAPS 2018)
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-- IMPORTANT DATES (extended paper submission deadline) --

   * Papers submission:        *05 February 2018* 23:59 AoE
   * Decision notification:    *06 March 2018*
   * Pre-proceedings version:   26 March 2018
   * Final camera-ready:        02 June  2018

-- INVITED SPEAKERS --

   * Joseph Sifakis (Verimag / CNRS, France)
   * Thanassis Tsiodras (European Space Agency, The Netherlands)

-- ABOUT MeTRiD --

MeTRiD 2018 is a new international workshop focusing on the
theoretical foundations, tools and applications of the Rigorous
System Design approach.

The term "Rigorous System Design" denotes the design approach that
is based on a formal, accountable and iterative process for deriving
trustworthy and optimised implementations from models of application
software, its execution platform and its external environment.  In
particular, a system implementation is derived from a set of
appropriate high-level models by applying a sequence of semantics-
preserving transformations, thereby as much as possible striving for
achieving correctness by construction.

The goal of the workshop is to promote cross-fertilisation between
theoretical research in academia and practical applications in the
industry.  On one hand, we hope that, through the publication of
research and tool papers, the workshop will contribute to raising
awareness of the methods and tools available among the industrial
players.  On the other hand, presentation and exchange of realistic
case studies should allow academic researchers to better fit their
tools to industrial needs, thereby improving the dissemination of
results.

-- SCOPE --

The workshop will solicit contributions of three types:

   * Regular papers, presenting original research

   * Case study papers, reporting the evaluation of existing
     modelling, analysis, transformation and code generation
     formalisms and tools on realistic examples of significant size

   * Tool papers, describing new tool prototypes supporting the RSD
     flow and enhancements of existing ones

The authors of accepted tool papers will be expected to give a live
demonstration at the workshop.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

   * models and formalisms for specifying user requirements,
     functional behaviour of application components, coordination and
     interaction protocols, execution platform architectures, resource
     utilisation policies etc.
   * model transformation techniques integrating such models
   * analysis techniques for establishing correctness properties at
     all stages of the design process
   * case studies exemplifying potential applications of the RSD
     approach
   * prototype tools supporting various stages of the RSD flow
   * tool integration experiences

-- LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND POLICY --

All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three independent
reviewers under a lightweight double-blind policy.  The authors would
be expected to invest reasonable effort into concealing their
identities.  However, the main goal is to allow for unbiased review:
anonymisation should not affect the quality of submissions, nor in any
way hamper their evaluation.  In particular, references to technical
reports, case study models or tool distributions are acceptable and
should be provided where necessary.

-- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLISHING  --

Papers of all types will be made available before the workshop on the
MeTRiD website and will be published as post-proceedings in the
open-access series Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer
Science (EPTCS).  

Submitted papers must be in English, presenting original work.  They
must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere.

All submissions must adhere to the EPTCS formatting style
(http://style.eptcs.org/) and are limited to 12 pages (not counting
bibliography and appendices), but shorter extended abstracts are welcome.

Tool papers should provide the URL of the tool (if available) and
illustrate the maturity and robustness of the tool.  They must also
comprise an appendix of reasonable length (roughly 6 pages, although
minor deviations will be tolerated, if necessary) with the description
of the demonstration, including screenshots.  As usual, appendices
will be used for evaluation purposes only and will not be included for
publication.

Contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF through the
EasyChair author interface:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=metrid2018

Submissions not adhering to the specified format and length may be
rejected immediately.

-- ORGANIZERS --

Saddek Bensalem (Verimag / Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland / INRIA, France)

All queries can be sent to: [email protected]

-- PROGRAM COMMITTEE --

Farhad Arbab (CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Paul Attie (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Saddek Bensalem (Verimag / Université Grenoble Alpes, France)
Simon Bliudze (EPFL, Switzerland / INRIA, France)
Marius Bozga (Verimag / CNRS, France)
Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK)
Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy)
Rayna Dimitrova (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany)
Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany)
Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Mohamad Jaber (American University of Beirut, Lebanon)
Panagiotis Katsaros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
Igor Konnov (TU Wien, Austria)
Axel Legay (IRISA, France)
Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen, Germany)
Martina Seidl (Johannes Kepler University, Austria)
Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Joseph Sifakis (Verimag / CNRS, France)
Janos Sztipanovits (Vanderbilt University, USA)
Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
Martin Wirsing (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
Josef Widder (TU Wien, Austria)

-- HOST INSTITUTION --

MeTRiD is a satellite workshop of ETAPS 2018, which will be hosted by
the School of Informatics of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki,
the largest university in Greece.