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                      First Call for Papers

                           FMICS 2012

                 17th International Workshop on
           Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems
        http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/conferences/fmics2012/


                 August 27/28, 2012, Paris, France

                      Co-located with FM 2012

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Scope

The aim of the FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for
researchers who are interested in the development and application of
formal methods in industry. In particular, FMICS brings together
scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal
methods and interested in exchanging their experiences in the
industrial usage of these methods. The FMICS workshop series also
strives to promote research and development for the improvement of
formal methods and tools for industrial applications.

Workshop Proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS series. 

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Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

       * Design, specification, code generation and testing based on
         formal methods.

       * Methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis,
         certification, debugging, learning, optimization and
         transformation of complex, distributed, real-time systems
         and embedded systems.

       * Verification and validation methods that address
         shortcomings of existing methods with respect to their
         industrial applicability (e.g., scalability and usability
         issues).

       * Tools for the development of formal design descriptions.

       * Case studies and experience reports on industrial
         applications of formal methods, focusing on lessons learned
         or identification of new research directions.

       * Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development
         process and associated costs.

       * Application of formal methods in standardization and
         industrial forums.

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Important Dates

   * Abstract submission: March 28th, 2012

   * Paper submission: April 4th, 2012

   * Notification: May 25th, 2012

   * Final version due: June 8th, 2012

   * Workshop: August 27th-28th, 2012

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