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Conference Preliminary Program...........................

Important Dates
  • Submission of paper: 30th May 2003  (firm)

  • Notification of acceptance:      14th July 2003 

  • Final copy for Proceedings:    8th August 2003

  • ICFEM2003 in Singapore:  5-7 November 2003


 

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Wednesday, 5 November 2003

  7:45 - 8:45 Registration
  8:45 - 9:00 Opening Ceremony
   9:00 - 10:00 Keynote 1
    "Programs as paths",
Prof. Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia
  10:00 - 10:30 Break
  10:30 - 12:30 Session 1: Testing and Validation
    10:30-11:00 "Working on Scenarios for Reproducible Testing"
                   Jessica Chen, University of Windsor, Canada
    11:00-11:30 "AMBA-ARM7 Formal Verification Platform"
                   Kong Susanto,  Univ. of Glasgow, UK
                   Tom Melham, Oxford University, UK
        11:30-12:00 "Formalization, Testing and Execution of a Use Case Diagram"
                   Wuwei Shen, Western Michigan University, USA
                   Shaoying Liu, Hosei University, Japan
     12:00-12:30 "Services-Based Systems Engineering: Consistent Combination of Services"
                   Bernhard Schätz, TU Mščnchen, Germany
                   Christian Salzmann, BMW Car-IT, Germany
  12:30 - 14:00  Lunch
   14:00 - 15:30  Session 2: State Diagrams
    14:00-14:30 "Using state diagrams to describe concurrent behaviour"
                   Jim Davies, Charles Crichton, University of Oxford, UK
     14:30-15:00 "The equivalence of Statecharts"
                   Quan Long, Zongyan Qiu,  Peking University, China
                   Shengchao Qin, Singapore-MIT Alliance, National University of Singapore, Singapore
     15:00-15:30 "Generic Interacting State Machines and their instantiation with dynamic features"
                   David von Oheimb, Volkmar Lotz, Siemens CT IC Sec, Germany
    15:30 - 16:00  Break
  16:00 - 17:30  Session 3: PVS/HOL
    16:00-16:30 "Using PVS to prove Properties of Systems Modelled in a Synchronous Dataflow Language"
                   Sanjai Rayadurgam,  Anjali Joshi, Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA
    16:30-17:00 "Formalising an Integrated Language in PVS"
                   Gwen Salaščn, Christian AttiogbšŠ, IRIN, France
    17:00-17:30 "Modeling SystemC Fixed-Point Arithmetic in HOL"
                   Behzad Akbarpour, Sofiene Tahar, Concordia University, CANADA
  18:30 - ? Reception, TBC
   
 

Thursday, 6 November 2003

   9:00 - 10:00   keynote 2
    "Model Based Formal Code Verification"
Dr. Colin O'Halloran, QinetiQ, UK
  10:00 - 10:30 Break
  10:30 - 12:30   Parallel session 4A: Refinement
    10:30-11:00 "Adding action refinement to stochastic true concurrency models"
                   Mila Majster-Cederbaum, Jinzhao Wu, Universitaet Mannheim, Germany
    11:00-11:30 "Incremental derivation of abstraction relations for data refinement"
                   Neil Robinson, The University of Queensland, Australia
    11:30-12:00 "Comparison of data and process refinement"
                   David Streader, Steve Reeves, University of Waikato, NZ
    12:00-12:30 "Compilation by Refinement for a Practical Assembly Language"
                   Geoffrey Watson, The University of Queensland, Australia
  10:30 - 12:30   Parallel session 4B: Hybrid Systems
    10:30-11:00 "Java Card Code Generation from B Specifications"
                   Bruno Tatibouet, Jean-Christophe Voisinet, Ahmed Hammad University of Franche-Comte, France
                   Antoine Requet, Gemplus Research Laboratory, France
    11:00-11:30 "Efficient Path Finding with the Sweep-Line Method using External Storage"
                    Lars Kristensen, Thomas Mailund, University of Aarhus,Denmark
    11:30-12:00 "Formal development of a distributed logging mechanism supporting disconnected updates"
                   Yuechen QIAN, Philips Research Laboratories, Netherlands
    12:00-12:30 "Formal proof of a polychronous protocol for loosely time-triggered architectures"
                   Mickael Kerboeuf, NSA-Rennes, France
                   David Nowak, CNRS,ENS Cachan, France
                   Jean-Pierre Talpin, INRIA, France
  12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
  14:00 - 15:30 Parallel session 5A: Z/Object-Z
    14:00-14:30 "A Z Based Approach to Verifying Security Protocols"
                   Benjamin Long, Colin Fidge, Antonio Cerone, The University of Queensland, Australia
     14:30-15:00 "A Refinement Tool for Z"
                   Angela Freitas, Carla Nascimento, Centro de Informatica - Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil
                   Ana Cavalcanti, University of Kent, UK
    15:00-15:30 "The Common Semantic Constructs of XML Family"
                   Yang Hong Li,  Hao Ke Gang, Northwest University, China
                   Han Jun Gang, University of Xi'an Post & Telecomm, China
   14:00 - 15:30 Parallel session 5B: Petri Nets
    14:00-14:30 "Controller Synthesis for Object Petri Nets"
                   Berndt Farwer,  Universitat Hamburg, UK
                   Saraswati Kalvala, Kundan Misra, University of Warwick, UK
    14:30-15:00 "Towards a Workflow Model of Real-Time Cooperative Systems"
                   Yuyue Du, Changjun Jiang, Tongji University, China
    15:00-15:30 "New Developments in Closed-Form Computation for GSPN Aggregation"
                   Jonathan Billington,University of South Australia, Australia
   15:30 - 16:00 Break
    16:00 - 17:30 Session 6: Timed Automata
      16:00-16:30 "On Clock Difference Constraints and Termination in Reachability Analysis of Timed Automata"
                   Johan Bengtsson, Wang Yi, Uppsala University, Sweden
    16:30-17:00 "Analyzing the Redesign of a Distributed Lift System in UPPAAL"
                   Jun Pang, Bart Karstens, CWI
                   Wan Fokkink, CWI and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
     17:00-17:30 "Verification of Timeliness QoS Properties in Multimedia Systems"
                   Behzad Bordbar,University of Birmingham, UK
                   Kozo Okano, Osaka University, Japan
  18:30 - ?  Dinner at Singapore Zoological Garden and Night Safari tour, TBC 
      
 

Friday, 7 November 2003

    9:00 - 10:00   Keynote 3
    "TBA"
Dr. Mathai Joseph, Tata Research Development & Design Centre, India
  10:00 - 10:30  Break
  10:30 - 12:30  Session 7: System Modeling and Checking
    10:30-11:00 "A Calculus for Set-Based Program Development"
                   Georg Struth,Universität Augsburg, Germany
     11:00-11:30 "Compositional Verification of a Switch Fabric from Nortel Networks"
                   Hong Peng, Sofiene Tahar, Yassine Mokhtari, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
    11:30-12:00 "Constraint-Based Model Checking of Data-Independent Systems"
                   Beata Sarna-Starosta, C.R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
    12:00-12:30 "A Formal Model for the Block Subsystems of the Linux Kernel"
                   Peter Breuer, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
   12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
  14:00 - 15:30 Session 8: Semantics and Synthesis
      14:00-14:30 "A Mathematical Framework for Safecharts"
                   Hamdan Dammag, Nimal Nissanke, South Bank University, UK
     14:30-15:00 "A Relational Model for Formal Object-Oriented Requirement Analysis in UML"
                   Zhiming Liu, Jifeng He, UNU/IIST, Macau
                   Xiaoshan Li, University of Macau, Macau
                   Yifeng Chen, University of Leicester,
     15:00-15:30 "FROM SPECIFICATION TO HARDWARE DEVICE: A SYNTHESIS ALGORITHM"
                    VINCENZA CARCHIOLO, MICHELE MALGERI, GIUSEPPE MANGIONI, DIPARTIMENTO DI INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA E DELLE TELECOMUNICAZIONI, ITALY
   15:30 - 16:00 Break
   16:00 - 17:30   Session 9: Panel and Closing 
  18:30 - ?   Santosa Event, Musical Fountain Show, TBC (optional)
      
 
  
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