About the Conference

Scope

The component-based software development approach has emerged as a promising paradigm to cope with the complexity of present-day software systems by bringing sound engineering principles into software engineering. However, many challenging conceptual and technological issues still remain in component-based software development theory and practice. Moreover, the advent of service-oriented computing has brought to the fore new dimensions, such as quality of service and robustness to withstand inevitable faults, that require revisiting established component-based concepts in order to meet the new requirements of the service-oriented paradigm.

FACS 2012 is concerned with how formal methods can be used to make component-based and service-oriented software development succeed. Formal methods have provided a foundation for component-based software by successfully addressing challenging issues such as mathematical models for components, composition and adaptation, or rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification.

Topics of Interest

The symposium seeks to address the applications of formal methods in all aspects of software components and services. Specific topics include, but are not limited to:

• formal models for software components and their interaction
• formal aspects of services, service oriented architectures, business processes, and cloud computing
• design and verification methods for software components and services
• composition and deployment: models, calculi, languages
• formal methods and modeling languages for components and services
• model based and GUI based testing of components and services
• models for QoS and other extra-functional properties (e.g., trust, compliance, security) of components and services
• components for real-time, safety-critical, secure, and/or embedded systems
• industrial or experience reports, and case studies
• update and reconfiguration of component and service architectures
• component systems evolution and maintenance
• autonomic components and self-managed applications
• formal and rigorous approaches to software adaptation and self-adaptive systems

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