[Om-announce] Call for Workshop Proposals: SEFM 2014

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SEFM 2014 – CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

12th International Conference on 
Software Engineering and Formal Methods
(SEFM 2014)

http://sefm2014.inria.fr/

Grenoble, France
September 1-5, 2014

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SEFM brings together practitioners and researchers from academia, 
industry and government to advance the state of the art in formal 
methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry and 
to encourage their integration with practical engineering methods. 
Satellite workshops provide further opportunities for collaborating 
and exchanging ideas about specific topics of Formal Methods and 
Software Engineering, from conceptual to practical aspects. 
To this end, researchers and practitioners are invited to submit 
proposals for workshops on topics in the fields of the conference.

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Important Dates
- Workshops will take place on September 1-2, 2014
- Submission deadline for workshop proposals is January 31, 2014
- Notification: February 7, 2014

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Submission

Workshop proposals should consist of one pdf file and should be submitted 
by email at sefm14-workshops at inria.fr by the end of January, 2014.

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Proposals

Workshop proposals should consist of the following items: 
- name and acronym of the workshop
- motivations: short (up to 1 page) scientific justification of the 
proposed topic and scope, its significance and relevance to SEFM, 
and the particular benefits of the workshop to both Formal Methods 
and Software Engineering communities
- name, affiliation, and short (up to 10 lines) bio of the workshop 
organizers 
- contact organizer 
- desired length of the workshop, (half day, full day, 2 days) 
- estimate of the audience size
- proposed format and agenda (e.g., demo sessions, tutorials, etc.) 
- potential invited speakers
- any specific requirement the workshop may have
- procedures for selecting papers and participants
- plans for dissemination, if any (e.g., workshop proceedings, or special 
issues of journals)
- preliminary call for papers (list of topics, preliminary PC, deadlines, etc.) 
and link to the workshop website (if possible)
- information about previous editions (if applicable)

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Organization details 

In order to make SEFM workshops appealing for participants, we plan 
to keep the fares as low as possible. Precise figures have not been 
decided yet, but we estimate that the workshop fee will be 
about 80€ per day, with a full fee of around 500€ for the whole week 
(SEFM conference + workshops).

We also understand that having a good proceedings publication will 
attract submissions. For that, we plan to organize a joint LNCS 
proceedings volume. Nevertheless, if you have your own agreements 
for proceedings or special issue publication, you can maintain them. 

All accepted workshops would be asked to produce a Webpage and a call 
for papers. Both workshop organizers and participants will be required 
to register through the SEFM 2014 registration Webpage and attend their 
workshop.

Carlos Canal, Marc Frappier, Akram Idani
The Workshop Chairs