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From: mery <dominique.mery@loria.fr>


First Call for Papers

ABZ 2023: International Conference on Rigorous State Based Methods

LORIA, Université de Lorraine, Nancy, France.

May 30-June 2, 2023

https://abz2023.loria.fr



Important dates


Workshops/Tutorials
Workshop proposal submission: November  01, 2022
Workshop notification: November 15, 2022

Tutorial proposal submission: February 16, 2023

Case Study Track
Abstract submission: December 05, 2022
Paper submission: December 18, 2022
Notification: January 28, 2023
Final version: March 06, 2023

Main Track
Abstract submission: January 16, 2023
Paper submission: January 23, 2023
(including research/short/industry papers)
Notification: March 6, 2023
Final version: March 27, 2023

Doctoral Symposium
Paper submission: January 23, 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.


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


Four 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.

*    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.

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 Chair:
José Creissac Campos, Departamento de Informática - Universidade do
Minho, Portugal.
Philippe Palanque, Interactive Critical Systems - IRIT-  Univ. Toulouse,
France

For further questions concerning ABZ 2023, please contact us at
dominique dot mery at loria.fr

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