2nd Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages

Barcelona, Spain, 27-28 March 2004 - Satellite Event of ETAPS 2004
OVERVIEW
CALL FOR PAPERS
IMPORTANT DATES
TOPICS
COMMITTEES
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
SUBMISSION

CALL FOR PAPERS

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EXTENDED DEADLINE: 15 DECEMBER 2003

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                         Call for Papers
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                          2nd Workshop on 

            QUANTITATIVE ASPECTS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES 

                        Barcelona - Spain 
                     27th - 28th March, 2004
                  Satellite Event of ETAPS 2004

                    http://qapl04.di.unipi.it

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                               SCOPE

Quantitative aspects of computation are important and sometimes
essential in characterising the behaviour and determining the
properties of systems. They are related to the use of physical
quantities (storage space, time, bandwidth, etc.)
as well as mathematical quantities (e.g. probability and measures
for reliability, risk and trust). Such quantities play a central
role in defining both the model of systems (architecture,
language design, semantics) and the methodologies and tools for
the analysis and verification of system properties.

The aim of this workshop is to discuss the explicit use of
quantitative information such as time and probabilities either
directly in the model or as a tool for the analysis of systems.
In particular, the workshop focuses on

- the design of probabilistic and real-time languages and
  the definition of semantical models for such languages;  
      
- the discussion of methodologies for the analysis of probabilistic
  and timing properties  (e.g. security, safety, schedulability)
  and of other quantifiable properties such as reliability
  (for hardware components), trustworthiness (in information security)
  and resource usage (e.g., worst-case memory/stack/cache
  requirements);

- the probabilistic analysis of systems which do not explicitly
  incorporate quantitative aspects  (e.g. performance, reliability
  and risk analysis);

- applications to safety-critical systems, communication protocols,
  control systems, asynchronous hardware, and to any other domain
  involving quantitative issues.

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                              TOPICS

Topics include (but are not limited to) probabilistic, timing and
general quantitative aspects in

               Language design      Performance analysis
            Language extension      Program analysis
       Language expressiveness      Verification
Hardware description languages      Asynchronous hardware analysis
                         Logic      Refinement
                     Semantics      Automated reasoning
           Coordination models      Model-checking
           Distributed systems      Security
         Time-critical systems      Safety
              Embedded systems      Risk and Hazard Analysis
         Multi-tasking systems      Scheduling theory
           Information systems      Testing

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                          INVITED SPEAKERS

                   R. Gorrieri      (University of Bologna, Italy)
                   P. Harrison      (Imperial College London, UK)
                 P. Panangaden      (McGill University, Canada)
                         W. Yi      (Uppsala University, Sweden)

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                            SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers up to 15 pages long in the ENTCS
style format. Papers should clearly state the topics covered. Electronic
submission is highly recommended. Detailed information is available on the
web site http://qapl04.di.unipi.it.

In case of problems with access to internet, it is possible to submit 3
copies of the paper to one co-chairperson of the program committee.

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                         IMPORTANT DATES

      Deadline for submission:      15 December, 2003 
      Notification to authors:      13 January,  2004
                Final version:      13 February, 2004
                     Workshop:      27-28 March, 2004
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                          PROCEEDINGS

Accepted papers will be published in Elsevier's ENTCS (Electronic Notes
in Theoretical Computer Science).

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                           ORGANISERS

                Antonio Cerone      Alessandra Di Pierro
                School of ITEE      Dipartimento di Informatica
  The University of Queensland      University of Pisa
                     Australia      Italy

         Phone: +61 7 33651651      Phone: +39 050 2212779
         Fax:   +61 7 33651533      Fax:   +39 050 2212726

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                          PROGRAM COMMITTEE

                     G. Bernat      (York, UK)
                    F. de Boer      (Utrecht, The Netherlands)
                     A. Cerone      (PC co-chair)
                  L. de Alfaro      (Santa Cruz, USA)
                  A. Di Pierro      (PC co-chair)
                      C. Fidge      (Queensland, Australia)
                 M. Gabbrielli      (Bologna, Italy)
                       M. Huth      (IC London, UK)
                  S.D. Johnson      (Indiana, USA)
              M.Z. Kwiatkowska      (Birmingham, UK)
              Annabelle McIver      (Macquarie University, Australia)
                Carroll Morgan      (UNSW/NICTA, Australia)
                    J. Ostroff      (York, Canada)
                     R. Segala	    (Verona, Italy)
                   H. Wiklicky      (IC London, UK)
                         W. Yi      (Uppsala, Sweden)

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