IEICE Trans D Form Appr 2018 : Special Section on Formal Approaches at IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems

The IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems announces a forthcoming special section on Formal Approaches to be published in June 2018.

Formal methods and techniques play a key role in designing and developing highly reliable information systems and embedded systems. The last decades have seen various new techniques and profound theoretical results using formal methods in surprisingly many fields such as modeling, requirements analysis, specification, automatic generation of codes, testing, verification, and maintenance. They are rapidly extending their application domains as a result of the recent growth of information and communication technologies.

The Special Section on Formal Approaches aims at stimulating research on formal approaches to information systems and embedded systems, ranging from fundamental theory to practical applications. Our emphasis is put on the cross-fertilization of related research fields and encouragement of young researchers.

Topics: The major topics are listed below, but we solicit submissions in all areas of formal approaches, i.e., first to formalize information systems, embedded systems, and their environment, next to analyze their behavior and to derive their properties rigorously, and then to solve various problems in designing and managing the systems.

- Theoretical foundations: all aspects of theory related to formal description and verification for structure and behavior of systems. - Formal techniques: techniques for mainly describing and analyzing systems, such as software, hardware and networks. - Formal tools: tools based on formal methods such as model checkers, theorem provers, and static and dynamic analyzers. - Applications: practical experiences of applying formal methods to information systems, embedded systems, circuits, security, etc. - Education: education on formal methods.

Submission Instructions:

The deadline for submission is Aug 21, 2017, 23:59 JST(GMT+9). Manuscripts should be carefully prepared according to the guideline in the "Information for Authors" (available at http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html). The preferred length of the manuscript is 8 pages. Only electronic submission through the web page is accepted.

Submit a complete paper and transfer copyright of the paper using the IEICE Web site https://review.ieice.org/regist/regist_baseinfo_e.aspx Authors should choose the [Special FO] Formal Approaches" as a "Journal/Section" on the online screen.

Editorial Committee:

Guest Editor-in-Chief: Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya (Osaka University) Guest Editors: Toshiaki Aoki (JAIST) Hiroyuki Nakagawa (Osaka University) Members: Takeo Imai (Toshiba Corp.) Fuyuki Ishikawa (National Institute of Infomatics) Koichi Kobayashi (Hokkaido University) Hironobu Kuruma (Hitachi, Ltd.) Ken Mano (NTT Communication Science Laboratories) Shingo Yamaguchi (Yamaguchi University) Tomoyuki Yokogawa (Okayama Prefectural University)

Further information may be obtained from the web page at: http://www-ise4.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/~t-tutiya/FA/

All inquiries should be sent to the guest editor in chief: Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya Osaka University 1-5 Yamadaoka, Suita-shi, Osaka 565-0871, Japan E-mail: t-tutiya@ist.osaka-u.ac.jp

Important Dates: Submission Deadline: Aug 21, 2017 23:59 JST (GMT+9) First Notification: Oct 17, 2017 Revised Version Deadline: Dec 17, 2017 Final Notification: Jan 24, 2018

Important Notice

(1) At least one of the authors must be an IEICE member when the manuscript is submitted for review. For the application of IEICE membership, visit http://www.ieice.org/eng/member/OM-appli.html

(2) When a paper has been accepted for publication, the authors are required to pay the page charges covering part of the cost of publication. Please carefuly read the submission guideline at http://www.ieice.org/eng/shiori/mokuji_iss.html