Only a few days before the abstract submission deadline.


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                          Call for papers                          

                            SynCoP 2014
 1st International Workshop on the SYNthesis of COntinuous Parameters
 
                      (ETAPS satellite event)

              http://lipn.univ-paris13.fr/SynCoP2014/             
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SynCoP aims at bringing together researchers working on parameter synthesis for 
systems with continuous variables, where the parameters consist of a (usually 
dense) set of constant values. Such problems arise for real-time, hybrid or 
probabilistic systems where the goal is to identify suitable parameters to 
achieve desired behavior, or to verify the behavior for a given range of 
parameter values. A parameter could be, e.g., a delay in a real-time system, or 
a reaction rate in a biological cell model.

The workshop will take place on Sunday the 6th of April 2014, in Grenoble, 
France, as a satellite event of ETAPS 2014.

The workshop will be able to (at least partially) support the travel and the 
ETAPS workshop registration fees for one or two PhD or Master student(s).

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 IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract: February 3rd, 2014
Full papers: February 3rd, 2014
Notification: February 27th, 2014
Camera ready: March 15th, 2014
Workshop: April 6th, 2014


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 TOPICS OF THE WORKSHOP
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The scientific subject of the workshop covers (but is not limited to) the 
following areas:
* parameter synthesis,
* parametric model checking,
* parametric logics, decidability and complexity issues,
* robustness analysis,
* formalisms such as parametric timed and hybrid automata, parametric time(d) 
Petri nets, parametric probabilistic automata, parametric Markov Decision 
Processes,
* applications to major areas of computer science and control engineering.


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 SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
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The content of papers should be original and not submitted elsewhere. All papers 
will be assigned to at least three reviews.

The page limit is 15 pages in the EPTCS format (http://style.eptcs.org/).
All accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Proceedings in 
Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) series, that are free and open access 
online proceedings.
The papers will be referenced in major databases such as DBLP, and published 
under the Creative Commons CC-BY license.
Hereby, the authors retain their copyright.
(Substantial revisions may later be published elsewhere.)

Submission will be made in English in PDF format through Easychair:
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=syncop2014


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INVITED SPEAKERS
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* Alexandre Donze, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, UC 
Berkeley, USA
* Didier Lime, IRCCyN / Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France
 (to be completed)


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    CHAIRS
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* Etienne Andre (Universite Paris 13, Sorbonne Paris Cite, France)
* Goran Frehse (Universite Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1 - Verimag, France)


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PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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* Eugene Asarin, Paris, France
* Alessandro Cimatti, Trento, Italy
* Alexandre Donze, Berkeley, USA
* Georgios Fainekos, Arizona, USA
* Laurent Fribourg, Cachan, France
* Antoine Girard, Grenoble, France
* Kim Larsen, Aalborg, Denmark
* Yang Liu, Singapore
* Olivier H. Roux, Nantes, France
* Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Boulder, USA
* Marielle Stoelinga , Twente, Netherlands
* Ashish Tiwari, USA
* Farn Wang, Taipei, Taiwan

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SUPPORT
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The workshop is partially supported by VERIMAG, LIPN, Universite Paris 13, and 
GDR IM.