Call for Papers
	SAVCBS'08
	Workshop at ACM SIGSOFT 2008/FSE 16 November 9-10, 2008

The seventh workshop on specification and verification of component-based systems is affiliated with ACM SIGSOFT 2008/FSE 16 and will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, November 9-10, 2008. Abstracts are due on September 8, 2008, and eight page papers on September 15, 2008. Details on paper submission follow a general description of the workshop below. Informal proceedings will be made available to workshop participants and papers will also be available from the workshop web page. Thus there will be no formal publication of papers, and authors will retain copyright to their papers.

Themes and Topics of Interest

SAVCBS is focused on using formal (i.e., mathematical) techniques to establish a foundation for the specification and verification of component-based systems. Specification techniques are urgently needed to support effective reasoning about systems composed from components. Component-based approaches also underscore the need for scaling advanced verification techniques such as extended static analysis and model checking to the size of real systems. The workshop will consider formalization of both functional and non-functional behavior (such as performance or reliability). Suggested research topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Techniques for component-based verification or reasoning
• Component-based specification languages
• Static analysis of components and component compositions
• Verification-oriented design methodologies for components
• Dynamic checking techniques, including run-time assertion or property checking
• Specification and verification of non-functional component behavior (performance, memory, concurrency, etc.)
• Unifying formal descriptions of concurrency properties with model-based behavioral descriptions of components
• Balancing tradeoffs (automatic/manual verification, soundness/completeness, static/dynamic verification, testing/formal verification, scalability/coverage, etc.)
• Theories of component composition
• Industrial experience, such as adoption issues, with formal techniques for component-based systems
• Case studies of applying formal techniques to component based systems
• Educational experience or tactics for formal approaches to component-based systems

We are soliciting position papers from researchers and practitioners in the areas of component-based software engineering and formal methods. Submissions should outline the current state of research or practice, describe the most pressing shortcomings, and formulate goals for future development.

Challenge Problem

One session during the workshop will be devoted to presenting solutions (full or partial) to a challenge problem. This problem presents features that pose difficulties for current specification technologies. The session will be open both to presenters as well as participants of the workshop. Details on the challenge problem are posted at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/2008/challenge.shtml. Solutions should illustrate innovative features of specification or verification as they pertain to this particular problem.

Submissions

Invitation to the workshop will be based on accepted position papers. An ideal position paper would identify new research topics, areas, or problems related to component-based software engineering. It should address the following questions.

• What is the problem (or topic or area) that is being described?
• What is the significance of the problem for component-based software engineering?
• What theoretical or practical insights might help to solve this problem?
• What related work is there about the problem and the theoretical approach? How does it compare?

Details
Submissions must not exceed 8 pages. We encourage, but do not require, use of the ACM Conference format. We also suggest that you add page numbers to your submission, to make adding comments easier. Papers will be accepted in PDF or Postscript format. Papers will be submitted on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=savcbs08.

We will notify authors that are selected for presentation to the workshop by October 11, 2008. Some authors will be invited to attend but not to present their work formally, and others may have short presentations. We may also have a poster session for authors not invited to present their work formally. All invited authors will have pages in the informal workshop proceedings. The final versions of papers for invited authors will be due on November 3, 2008.

Copies of the proceedings will be available on the web before the workshop. Check back at the SAVCBS web site to print a copy before attending.

Best papers may be invited for submission to a special issue of a journal.

For more information, visit http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/

Workshop Program Committee:

We're pleased to have another outstanding program committee this year.

• Robby, chair (Kansas State University, USA)
• Patrice Chalin (Concordia University, Canada)
• Ivica Crnkovic (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
• Cormac Flanagan (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
• Alex Groce (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
• Joseph Kiniry (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Eric Madelaine (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France)
• Rupak Majumdar (UCLA, USA)
• Darko Marinov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Marius Minea ("Politehnica" University of Timisoara, Romania)
• Mauro Pezzè (University of Lugano, Switzerland)
• Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter (University of Kaiserlautern, Germany)
• Andreas Rausch (T.U. Clausthal, Germany)
• Natarajan Shankar (SRI, USA)
• Yannis Smaragdakis (University of Oregon, USA)
• Nigamanth Sridhar (Cleveland State University, USA)
• Serdar Tasiran (Koc University, Turkey)