FoSSaCS 2008

Eleventh International Conference on
FOUNDATIONS OF SOFTWARE SCIENCE AND COMPUTATION STRUCTURES

A member conference of the European Joint Conferences
on Theory and Practice of Software
(ETAPS 2008)

March 29 - April 6, 2008, Budapest, Hungary

FoSSaCS is a member conference of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS), which is the primary European forum for academic and industrial researchers working on topics relating to Software Science. ETAPS 2008 is the eleventh joint conference in this series and will be held in Budapest, Hungary. The prior conferences have been ETAPS 1998 in Lisbon, ETAPS 1999 in Amsterdam, ETAPS 2000 in Berlin, ETAPS 2001 in Genova, ETAPS 2002 in Grenoble, ETAPS 2003 in Warsaw, ETAPS 2004 in Barcelona, ETAPS 2005 in Edinburgh, ETAPS 2006 in Vienna, and ETAPS 2007 in Minho.

CALL FOR PAPERS

FOSSACS seeks original papers on foundational research with a clear significance for software science. The conference invites submissions on theories and methods to support the analysis, integration, synthesis, transformation, and verification of programs and software systems. The specific topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

Algebraic models,
Automata and language theory,
Behavioural equivalences,
Categorical models,
Computation processes over discrete and continuous data,
Infinite state systems,
Computation structures,
Logics of programs,
Modal, spatial, and temporal logics,
Models of concurrent, reactive, distributed, and mobile systems,
Process algebras and calculi,
Semantics of programming languages,
Software specification and refinement,
Type systems and type theory.
Fundamentals of security
Semi-structured data
Program correctness and verification

As FoSSaCS addresses a heterogeneous audience, potential authors are strongly encouraged to write about their ideas and findings in general and jargon-independent, rather than in application- and domain-specific, terms.

IMPORTANT DATES

ETAPS 2008 conferences and other satellite events will be held March 29 - April 6, 2008.

As a part of ETAPS, FoSSaCS adheres to ETAPS submission and notification deadlines:

Friday 5 October, 2007	Strict deadline for submission of abstracts (This deadline has expired! Abstract submission is closed.)
Friday 12 October, 2007 ( Samoa time, GMT-11)	Strict deadline for submission of full versions (This deadline has expired! Paper (re-)submission is closed. Thank you for your interest in FOSSACS. The PC received 124 submissions and it is now working hard to evaluate them.)
Friday 7 December, 2007	Acceptance notification of authors
Friday 4 January, 2008	Camera-ready paper versions due
Within 29 March and 6 April, 2008	FoSSaCS 2008 Conference

The above deadlines are STRICT. Making the deadline for submission of abstracts a week early allows the programme committee to start work before full versions are available. Obviously, there is no need to wait with submission of the full version until the final deadline.

Submission of an abstract implies no obligation to submit a full version; abstracts with no corresponding full versions by the final deadline will be treated as withdrawn, but authors are strongly encouraged, in this case, to explicitly withdraw their submission by sending an e-mail to the chairman.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Papers should be submitted using the FoSSaCS 2008 Conference Service.

Research papers cover one or more of the topics above and are evaluated by the FoSSaCS Program Committee. Submitted research papers must:

be in English and have a maximum of 15 pages (including figures and bibliography). Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit,
present original research which is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere (conferences, journals, books,...) -- in particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden.
use the Springer-Verlag LNCS style.
be submitted electronically in PDF (preferably) or PS format via the FoSSaCS 2008 Conference Service

Submissions deviating from these instructions may be rejected without review. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Final papers will be in the format specified by Springer-Verlag. Please note that FOSSACS does not accept tool demonstration papers. Any questions regarding the submission guidelines should be directed to the Program Committee Chair Roberto Amadio prior to submitting.

SPECIAL ISSUE

After the conference, the authors of the best accepted papers will be invited to submit a fully revised and extended paper for a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science. This is an open-access journal in all areas of logic as applied in computer science. Access to Logical Methods in Computer Science is free to both readers and authors, authors retain copyright, and archival quality is ensured as the journal is an overlay on arXiv, a major repository of scientific papers (currently holding over 400K articles). As soon as a paper is accepted for a special issue, it is published without having to wait for other contributors' papers.