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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS First Workshop on Formal Languages and Analysis of Contract-Oriented Software (FLACOS'07) Oslo, Norway, 9-10 October, 2007 http://www.ifi.uio.no/flacos07 The fast evolution of the Internet has popularized service-oriented architectures with their promise of dynamic IT-supported inter-business collaborations. Realizing this promise involves integrating services which are geographically distant and are offered by a variety of organizations which do not fully trust each other. Indeed, collaboration presumes a minimum level of mutual trust. Wherever trust is perceived as insufficient, business people turn to contracts as a mechanism to reduce risks. The ability to negotiate contracts (e.g. for quality of service, security, and distribution of information) and to provide services based on them is therefore one of the most pressing needs to make collaborations a reality. High-level models of contracts are slowly making their way into service-oriented architectures, but application developers are still left to their own devices when it comes to writing code that will comply with a contract concluded just before service provision. At the programming language level, contracts appear as separate concerns that crosscut through application logic. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working on language-based solutions to the above problem through the formalization of contracts, the design of appropriate abstraction mechanisms that would guide the developer in the production of contract-aware applications, and formal analysis of such contract languages/software. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: September 3, 2007 Notification of Acceptance: September 15, 2007 Registration for authors closes: September 25, 2007 WORKSHOP: October 9-10, 2007 FLACOS'07 is partially supported by the Nordunet3 project "Contract-Oriented Software Development for Internet Services". SCOPE Typical topics of the workshop include (but are not limited to): * Formal languages for contracts * Contract-oriented software development * Formal analysis of contracts, including static analysis, run-time verification, and model checking techniques * Contract synthesis * Contract transformation and contract refinement * Contract negotiation, discovery and monitoring INVITED PARTICIPANTS * Gilles Barthe (INRIA Sophia-Antipolis, France) * Frank S. de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) * John-Jules Ch. Meyer (Utrecht University, The Netherlands) - To be confirmed * Marek Sergot (Imperial College, UK) * Isabelle Simplot-Ryl (University of Lille 1, France) * ValentÃn Valero Ruiz (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * More to be announced. SUBMISSIONS Authors wishing to give a talk at the workshop are requested to submit an abstract of 1-3 pages (ps or pdf, printable on A4 paper) to [EMAIL PROTECTED] by September 3, 2007. Submission of work submitted for formal publication elsewhere and work in progress is permitted. The abstracts of the accepted contributions will be available at the workshop. After the workshop, selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Journal of Logic and Algebraic Programming (Elsevier) together with selected publications from NWPT'07. REGISTRATION INFORMATION * More information to follow. PROGRAMME COMMITTEE * Pablo Giambiagi, SICS, Sweden * Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) * Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg University, Denmark * Gerardo Schneider, University of Oslo, Norway (co-chair) CONTACT INFORMATION * [EMAIL PROTECTED] RELATED EVENTS * FLACOS'07 will be co-located with NWPT'07. -- Gerardo Schneider - Dept. of Informatics, Univ. of Oslo P.O Box 1080 Blindern, N-0316 Oslo, Norway Phone: +47 22 85 29 71, fax: +47 22 85 24 01 http://folk.uio.no/gerardo/