[Om-announce] FORMATS 2018 **First Call for Papers**

[David N. Jansen]

**First Call for Papers**: We invite you to submit original research articles to

FORMATS 2018
16th International Conference on Formal Modeling and Analysis of Timed Systems
Beijing, China, September 4–6, 2018

Conference website:             <http://lcs.ios.ac.cn/formats2018/>
Conference email:               formats2018 at easychair.org
Abstract registration deadline: 23 March 2018
Submission deadline:            30 March 2018 (Good Friday)

Invited speaker: Edward A. Lee, UC Berkeley

**Topics**: The aim of FORMATS is to promote the study of fundamental
and practical aspects of timed systems, and to bring together
researchers from different disciplines that share interests in
modelling and analysis of timed systems and, as a generalisation, of
hybrid systems.  Typical topics include (but are not limited to):

* Foundations and Semantics: Theoretical foundations of timed systems
and languages; new models and logics for analysis and comparison of
existing models (like automata, Petri nets, max-plus models, network
calculus, or process algebras involving quantitative time; hybrid
automata; probabilistic automata and logics).

* Methods and Tools: Techniques, algorithms, data structures, and
software tools for verification, synthesis, learning, online
monitoring and runtime verification of timed or hybrid systems and for
resolving temporal constraints (scheduling, worst-case execution time
analysis, optimisation, model checking, testing, constraint solving).

* Applications: Adaptation and specialisation of timing technology in
application domains in which timing plays an important role (real-time
software, embedded control, hardware circuits, biological systems, and
problems of scheduling in manufacturing and telecommunications).

The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS
<http://www.springer.com/lncs>.  FORMATS 2018 is part of CONFESTA 2018
<http://confesta2018.csp.escience.cn>, which also includes CONCUR,
QEST and SETTA.

**Programme Committee**
Sergiy Bogomolov (IST, Austria)
Borzoo Bonakdarpour (Iowa State Univ., USA)
Patricia Bouyer (LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, Univ. Paris Saclay, France)
Thao Dang (CNRS/VERIMAG, France)
Martin Fränzle (Carl von Ossietzky Univ. Oldenburg, Germany)
Ichiro Hasuo (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
Boudewijn Haverkort (Univ. of Twente, Netherlands)
Holger Hermanns (Saarland Univ., Germany)
David N. Jansen (co-chair, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of
Sciences, China)
Jan Křetínský (Technical Univ. of Munich, Germany)
Martin Leucker (Univ. of Lübeck, Germany)
Miroslav Pajic (Duke Univ., NC, USA)
David Parker (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
Pavithra Prabhakar (co-chair, Kansas State University, USA)
Krishna S. (IIT Bombay, India)
César Sánchez (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
Ocan Sankur (Univ. Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France)
Zhikun She (School of Mathematics and Systems Science, Beihang Univ.,
Beijing, China)
Jiří Srba (Aalborg Univ., Denmark)
B. Srivathsan (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India)
Meng Sun (Peking Univ., China)
Cong Tian (Xidian Univ., China)
Ashutosh Trivedi (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
Frits Vaandrager (Radboud Univ., Netherlands)
Mahesh Viswanathan (Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)

Kind regards,
Pavithra Prabhakar and David N. Jansen (FORMATS 2018 Co-Chairs)