Call for Participation
 
Dear Colleague,
It is our pleasure to invite you to the 
 
6. Symposium FORMS / FORMAT 2007
Formal Methods for Automation and Safety in Railway and Automotive Systems
25th and 26th January 2007 in Braunschweig (Germany)
 
http://www.Forms-Format.net <http://www.forms-format.net/> 
 
 
Objective and Topics
Complexity in automation- and safety systems as well in railway as in 
automotive applications will be dominated more and more by formal description 
means, methods and tools as well. Formal techniques provide next to the 
correctness and integrity checkups - especially in safety relevant systems - 
the possibility to prove the syntactic and semantic specification of the system 
as well as to simulate the system operation. 

Requirements of the CENELEC- and IEC-Standards on formal techniques, 
particularly with regard to the handling of safety analysis, are to be treated 
in FORMS/FORMAT 2007. The main focus lies on topics facing formal techniques 
for railway applications and intelligent transportation systems as well as for 
automotive applications (see below). Gained findings, experiences and also 
difficulties associated with the handling of the subject matter are to be shown 
(the conference's program can be found at http://www.Forms-Format.net 
<http://www.forms-format.net/>  ).
 
Formal Description Means and Methods - 
Concepts, Applications and Requirements in Traffic and Transportation 
Safety and Security, RAM, Simulation etc.; UML, Petrinets, AIS etc.
 
Requirements and Applications in Railway 
Methods for Risk Analysis; Risk Acceptance, Risk Measures, Signalling 
Applications, Model Based Design and Analysis etc.
 
Requirements and Applications in Automotive 
Control of Driving Dynamics Systems, Driver Assistance; UML in Automotive 
Systems; Model Based Development, Diagnosis etc.
 
Methods and Tools for Modelling, Validation / Verification and Tests 
Evaluation of RAMS-Parameter, System Related and Functional Validation, Limits 
of Formal Methods, Problems Using Automated Tests etc.
 
Legal Framework
Directives, Laws, Regulations, Standards and Norms, Certification etc.
 
Human Factors and Human Behaviour
(Learning, Manipulation, FCR-Modelling etc.)
 
The official language of the symposium in oral and written presentation will be 
English.
 
 
Registration:
Please make use of the registration-form - see: http://www.Forms-Format.net 
<http://www.forms-format.net/>  - to register to FORMS / FORMAT 2007.
 
Program Committee and Chairs
G. Barbu                                  UIC Paris (F)
Prof. B. Ning                             University of Beijing (China)
Prof. Dr. D. Björner                    TU of Kopenhagen (DK)
K. Bosch TÜV Rail                    München (D)
Prof. Dr. J. Braband                   Siemens AG Braunschweig (D)
Dr. G. Boy                                Eurisco International Toulouse (F)
Prof. Dr. W. Damm                   University of Oldenburg (D)
Prof. Dr. H. Ehrig                      TU of Berlin (D)
Prof. Dr. T. Giras                       Univ. Virginia Charlottesville (USA)
A. Greff                                    IAV Gifhorn (D)
Dr. El-M. El-Koursi                    INRETS Lille (F)
Dr. Y. Hirao                              RTRI - JR Tokyo (Japan)
Prof. Dr. K. Lemmer                  DLR Braunschweig (D)
Dr. L. Lochman                         CER Brussels (B)
J. L. Maté                                 Siemens VDO Toulouse (F)
M. Maurer                                Audi AG Ingolstadt (D)
Prof. Dr. J. Pachl                      TU of Braunschweig (D)
Prof. Dr. M. Papageorgiou          TU of Crete (GR)
Dr. S. Parthasarathy                 Algologic Research & Solutions (IND)
Dr. A. Pataricza                        University of Budapest (H)
Dr. A. Pretschner                      ETH Zürich (CH)
Prof. S. Ricci                            University of Rome (I)
Prof. Dr. B. Rumpe                    TU of Braunschweig (D)
Prof. Dr. U. Seiffert                    Witech Braunschweig (D)
Dr. K.-A. Klinge                        DB AG Berlin (D)
Prof. Dr. C. Stiller                      University of Karlsruhe (D)
Dr. N. Stoytcheva                      University of Transport Sofia (BU)
Prof. Dr. J. C. P. Woodcock       University of York (UK)
Prof. Dr. J. Zahradnik                 TU of Žilina (SK)
 
 
Scientific Committee / Chairs:
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. E. Schnieder
Technical University of Braunschweig (D)
Institute for Traffic Safety and Automation Engineering 
 
Prof. Dr. G. Tarnai
Budapest University of Technology and Economics (H)
Faculty of Transportation Engineering
 
History
The symposium FORMS- Formal techniques for railway management systems - took 
place for the first time as a cooperative symposium involving the Technical 
Universities of Braunschweig and Budapest in 1998 with a great success. Due to 
an increasing interest and to the transferability to automotive matters, the 
symposium has been extended by FORMAT - Formal techniques in automotive 
applications - in 2004.
 
 
Contact information
If there are any problems or questions, please do not hesitate to contact 
Andreas Redeker:
Mr. Andreas Redeker
GZVB e.V. - Gesamtzentrum für Verkehr Braunschweig
Hermann-Blenk-Str. 22
D - 38108 Braunschweig, Germany
Phone: +49 531 35406-73
Fax: +49 531 35406-74
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
and click http://www.Forms-Format.net/ to get to the top of the conference's 
homepage.
 
 
We apologise if you receive multiple copies of this announcement
 
Please forward this message to any colleagues who might be interested - thank 
you very much!
 
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