• April 01, 2014: FESCA'14 proceedings have been published in EPTCS
• Oct 30, 2012: Colin Atkinson accepted the invitation to give a keynote talk and tutorial at FESCA'14
• Sep 8, 2013: FESCA'14 Call for Papers (CfP) is now available
• May 1, 2013: FESCA'14 website was launched

In recent years, the growing importance of functional correctness and the increased relevance of system quality properties (e.g. performance, reliability, security) have stimulated the emergence of analytical and modelling techniques for the design and development of software systems. With the increasing complexity of today's software systems, FESCA aims at addressing two research questions: (1) what role the software architecture can play in systematic addressing of the analytical and modelling challenges, and (2) how formal and semi-formal techniques can be applied effectively to make the issues easier to address automatically, with lower human intervention.

We encourage submissions on (semi-)formal techniques and their application that aid analysis, design and implementation of software applications, including the techniques in the realm of Model-Driven Development. In this context, the topics include (but are not limited to):

• Modelling
  • Modelling formalisms;
  • Models, metamodels and model transformations;
• Correctness checking
  
  • Temporal properties and their formal verification;
  • Interface compliance and contractual use of components;
  • Correctness of models, metamodels and model transformations
• Analysis and prediction of quality attributes
  • Formal prediction and analysis;
  • Static and dynamic analysis;
  • Instrumentation and monitoring approaches;
• Industrial case studies and experience reports.

Besides general software systems, FESCA is interested in methods focusing on a specific application domain, such as:

• Cloud environment
• Mobile and embedded systems
• Information systems
• Hardware infrastructures

We encourage not only mature research results, submissions presenting innovative ideas and early results are also of interest.

Three kinds of submissions are solicited:

• regular papers (up to 15 pages) presenting original and unpublished work related to the workshop topics,
• position papers (up to 10 pages) presenting ideas and directions of interesting ongoing and yet unpublished research related to the workshop topics, and
• tool demonstration papers (up to 8 pages) presenting and highlighting the distinguishing features of a topic-related tool (co-developed by the authors).

The papers should be written in English, follow the EPTCS style, and respect the page limit. Papers are to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system, and need to be registered before submission (authors, title, abstract, keywords). All accepted papers are required to be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. Tool demonstration and position papers are required to state "Tool demonstration paper/Position paper" as a subtitle of the publication.

Final versions of accepted regular and position papers will be published in a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). The tool demonstration papers will not appear in the EPTCS proceedings, but will be included in the electronic pre-proceedings (distributed at the workhop) and made available on the workshop website.

• Paper registration: December 6, 2013
• Submission deadline: December 13, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: January 20, 2014
• Final versions due: February 10, 2014

Colin Atkinson (University of Mannheim)
Title: Facilitating Formal Views in View-Driven (Orthographic) Software Engineering

Abstract:

Colin Atkinson (University of Mannheim)
Title: Orthographic and Deep Modeling with Melanee

Abstract:

• Barbora Bühnová, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Lucia Happe, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Jan Kofroň, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Contact address: fesca2014(at)easychair.org, please include the keyword FESCA in the email subject.

Přemysl Brada (University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czech Republic)

Ivana Černá (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)

Antinisca Di Marco (Università dell'Aquila, Italy)

Petr Hnetynka (Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic)

Samuel Kounev (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Ralf Küsters (Universität Trier, Germany)

Markus Lumpe (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)

Daniel Menasche (UFRJ, Brazil)

Raffaela Mirandola (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Dorina Petriu (Carleton Univesity, USA)

Nadia Polikarpova (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Ralf Reussner (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)

Cristina Seceleanu (Mälardalen University, Sweden)

Kishor Trivedi (Duke University, USA)

Catia Trubiani (Università dell'Aquila, Italy)

Steffen Zschaler (King's College London, UK)

Please follow the information at ETAPS 2014 website.

The previous FESCA workshops at ETAPS 2004-2013 enjoyed high-quality submissions and attracted a number of recognized guest speakers, including Manfred Broy (Technische Universität München, Munich, Germany), Ivana Černá (Masaryk University, Czech Republic), Vittorio Cortellessa (Università dell'Aquila), José Luiz Fiadeiro, (University of Leicester, UK), Constance L. Heitmeyer (Naval Research Laboratory, USA), Rolf Hennicker (LMU, Munich, Germany), Samuel Kounev (KIT, Germany), František Plášil (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) and Martin Wirsing (LMU, Munich, Germany). It is expected that FESCA 2014 will make an equally positive contribution.