Overview

FACS 2024 is concerned with how formal methods can be applied to component- based software and system development. Formal methods have provided foundations for component-based software through research on mathematical models for components, composition and adaptation, and rigorous approaches to verification, deployment, testing, and certification.

Topics

The conference seeks to address the applications of formal methods in all aspects of software components and services. FACS aims at developing a community-based understanding of relevant and emerging research problems through formal paper presentations and lively discussions. FACS 2024 welcomes contributions including but not limited to:

    Formal methods, models, and languages for software-intensive systems, components and services, including verification techniques (e.g., model checking, theorem proving, testing, constraint solving, runtime analysis), probabilistic techniques, (co-)simulation techniques, composition and deployment, component interaction, software variability, QoS and other nonfunctional properties (e.g., trust, compliance, security, privacy);
    Formal aspects of concrete software-intensive systems, including service- oriented architectures, business processes, cloud or edge computing, real- time/safety-critical systems, hybrid and cyber physical systems, quantum systems, components that use artificial intelligence;
    Tools supporting formal methods for components and services;
    Case studies and experience reports over the above topics;
    Special track: Formal Methods of Component Software in the context of emerging computational paradigms (e.g. cyber physical human systems, quantum computations, AI systems, blockchain systems, etc) .