Scope

FACS 2023 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. Furthermore, we embrace a trend in recent FACS editions by introducing a new special track of “Formal Methods at Large”: it will accept submissions about advances based on formal methods across all kinds of software-intensive systems, possibly unrelated to components or composition.

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 2023 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, type systems, testing, runtime analysis),
        probabilistic techniques,
        (co-)simulation techniques,
        composition and deployment,
        component interaction,
        software variability,
        QoS and other non-functional 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 at Large.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of FACS, we also invite submissions on the topic of “component-based systems through the years” that describe important results and successful stories that originated in the context of component-based software engineering. All the accepted papers will be presented in a special session.