F M F u n - 2 0 1 9
1st International Workshop
”CCIS "Formal Methods - Fun for Everybody" ”Springer
Bergen, Norway, 2-3 December 2019
Co-located with iFM 2019

Programme | Keynote Speakers
Background and Objectives | Topics and Workshop Format | Keynote Speakers | Submission and Publication | Important Dates | Call for Papers | Committees | Contact
News
  • 17/03/2021: The Post-proceedings have ben published by Springer in the CCIS 1301 volume, which is available for download for the next four weeks.
  • 26/07/2019: FMFun website launched at fmfun.github.io

Background and Objectives

The largest transformations that universities make to industrial practices is through releasing legions of graduates every year. These graduates challenge established processes, and pave ways for new approaches. The standard CS graduate leaves university with either no knowledge of Formal Methods or a hatred for Formal Methods. Unless this situation is changed, Formal Methods will never be accepted in industry.

This workshop explores ways of how to utilize this pathway to transformation for spreading Formal Methods. In current practice, FM are often taught by theoreticians, who (ab)use their FM courses to teach theoretical concepts rather than putting FMs in a SE context. The workshop's vision is that FMs ought to be taught in such a way that every student can have fun with it. But how can this be achieved?

In order to answer this question the workshop welcomes participants from Formal methods as well as from education to exchange their views and perspectives. We aim to formulate a joint white paper that collects the outcomes of discussion and activities at the workshop. This white paper shall be circulated to educational bodies in charge of giving recommendations on curriculum development and will be published in the postproceedings.


Topics and Workshop Format

The workshop invites contributions that address this question, which include but are not limited to

Experience reports by teachers and students;
New teaching approaches, e.g. games;
Education-oriented research or classroom experience;
Innovative teaching techniques or pedagogical tools;
Curricular innovations or initiatives;
Innovative industry-education collaboration interventions;
Didactics and methods of teaching and assessment;
Combination of teaching and research;
Post-hoc analysis of successes and failures in teaching and learning;
Collaborative Learning;
Technology transfer to industry;
Developing student skills, e.g. on abstract thinking and logical reasoning;
Comparison of formal methods from a teaching/learning perspective;
Children education and formal methods;

for university and pre-university education.

The workshop will consist of contributed and invited talks, including a living lab on teaching Formal Methods with Fun and facilitated discussions leading to the formulation of the white paper.


Keynote Speakers
  • Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, Norway
  • Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway

Submission and Publication

Authors are invited to submit research contributions or experience reports via Easychair.

All papers should be written in English and prepared using the specific LNCS templates available at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html.

The workshop welcomes three different categories of submissions:

a) Regular papers: up to 15 pages + references;
b) Short papers: 6-8 pages + references;
c) Presentations: up to 4 pages + references.

Regular and Short papers need to make original contributions and will be published by Springer as a Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) post-proceedings volume. Short papers and Presentations can discuss new ideas which are at an early stage of development and which have not yet been thoroughly evaluated. Submission of already publish work as a Presentation is welcome.

Submissions can take the form of research papers, position papers, survey papers, reports on teaching experience, reports on learning experience. There are plans for a follow-up special issue in a journal on education.


Important Dates
Paper Short and regular papers abstract submission deadline:   Monday 7 October 2019 (EXTENDED)
Paper Short and regular papers submission deadline:   Monday 14 October 2019 (EXTENDED)
Short and regular paper notification:   Friday 1 November 2019
Presentation submission deadline:   Saturday 2 November 2019
Presentations notification:   Wednesday 6 November 2019
Workshop:   Monday 2 and Tuesday 3 December 2019
Camera ready papers for post-proceedings:   Monday 20 January 2020

Call for Papers

The Call for Papers is available in Text format.


Program Co-chairs
  • Antonio Cerone, Department of Computer Science, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
  • Markus Roggenbach, Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, UK

Program Committee

  • Luís Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
  • Hubert Baumeister, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
  • Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan (Program Co-chair)
  • Ming Chai, Beijing Jiaotong University, China
  • Sabine Glesner, Technical University Berlin, Germany
  • Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Stefan Gruner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
  • Magne Haveraaen, University of Bergen, Norway
  • Karl Lermer, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
  • Bas Luttik, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
  • Kathy Malone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
  • Faron Moller, Swansea University, UK
  • Hans de Nivelle, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
  • Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway
  • Carlo Gustavo Lopez Pombo, Universidad de Buenos Aires and CONICET, Argentina
  • Lucia Rapanotti, Open University, UK
  • Steve Reeves, University of Wakato, New Zealand
  • Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK (Program Co-chair)
  • Holger Schlingloff, Fraunhofer FOKUS and Humboldt University, Germany
  • Gerardo SchneiderChalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden
  • Ben Tyler, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
  • Janis Voigtländer, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
  • Ayman Wahba, Ain Shams University, Egypt


Contact

Inquiries concerning FMFun 2019 submissions and scientific programme should be sent to fmfun2019@easychair.org

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