FMPPTA'2003

8th International Workshop on
Formal Methods for Parallel Programming:
Theory and Applications

to be held in conjunction with the
17th International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium
(IPDPS'2003)

April 22-26, 2003
Nice Acropolis Convention Center
Nice, France



FMPPTA'2003 will occupy one full day of the 17th International Parallel Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2003). Registration for IPDPS is required and includes participation in the workshop.

Topics

Formal methods allow specifications of parallel and distributed programs to be precisely stated and the conformance of an implementation to be verified using mathematical techniques. These methods are especially important in parallel and distributed programming where the inherent non-determinism makes testing ineffective.

Formal methods can be used in the development of individual programs and effective tools are becoming available that help to automate the verification task. Foundations for frameworks can be developed that, while requiring no proofs by the programmer, are guaranteed to result in programs with certain properties. These approaches provide significant leverage to a formal analysis.

The objective of the workshop is to gather people, from both academia and industry, who use and/or develop formal methods for parallel or distributed programming. The association with IPDPS allows participants to take part in a workshop focused on formal methods as well as interact with researchers in the broader parallel and distributed processing community.

The workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

(See also the past programs of FMPPTA'2001 and FMPPTA'2002.)


Tool Demos

Authors who would like to give a demo of a tool used in their research should notify one of the program committee chairs. We hope to be able to schedule extra time for demos.


Program Committee

Flemming Andersen INTEL, USA
Michel Charpentier      University of New Hampshire, USA(co-chair)
Radhia Cousot CNRS, France
Mamoun Filali CNRS, France
Klaus Havelund NASA, USA
Dominique Mery Universite Henri Poincare, France
Michael Mislove Tulane University, USA
Lawrence Paulson Cambridge University, UK
Laurence Pierre Universite de Nice, France
Joy Reed Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA
Jakob Rehof Microsoft Research, USA
Beverly Sanders University of Florida, USA(co-chair)
Kaisa Sere Abo Akademi University, Finland
Jane Sinclair University of Warwick, UK
David Skillicorn Queens University, Canada


Paper Submission

Authors should submit their original contributions as PostScript or pdf files electronically to Michel Charpentier (). Postal address, email, phone and fax numbers of a corresponding author should be included. An early email with your intention to submit a paper would be greatly appreciated. Please contact one of the co-chairs if electronic submission is not possible and/or formats other than PostScript or pdf are used.

Michel Charpentier
Department of Computer Science
University of New Hampshire
Kingsbury Hall, rm M201
Durham, NH 03824
USA

Phone: 603-862-2981
Fax: 603-862-3493


Important Dates

Deadline for submissions:28 October, 2002
Notification of acceptance/rejection:  20 December, 2002
Print ready paper due:24 January, 2003
IPDPS'2003:22-26 April, 2003
FMPPTA'2003:26 April, 2003

Michel Charpentier <>
Last modified: Tue Jul 22 09:54:09 EDT 2003