Notice of Meeting and Call for Papers

ZUM'98

11th International Conference of Z Users
24th-25th September 1998
Berlin, Germany


Organized by the Z User Group,
Daimler-Benz Research Berlin,
German National Research Center for Information Technology (GMD),
and the Technical University Berlin
in association with BCS FACS

Supported by the ProCoS Working Group
Sponsored by Daimler-Benz AG and Praxis Critical Systems


The 11th International Conference of Z Users (ZUM'98) will be held in the German capital, Berlin, in September 1998.

Z is a formal notation (formal method) widely used in both academia and industry, for the specification and verification of both hardware and software systems.

The programme committee invites authors to submit papers on or related to the formal specification notation Z, in particular, and formal methods in general, for presentation and inclusion in the published Proceedings to be distributed at the conference.

The conference will also include tool demonstrations and displays by publishers.

An educational issues session is planned to follow the conference, and tutorials may be possible on the days directly preceding and following the main sessions.

Invited speakers from industrial application and academic research background will give presentations as part of the main conference sessions.

The schedule for submissions is as follows:

        Submission of draft papers:          1st March 1998
        EIS / Tutorial submissions:          1st May 1998 
        Notification of acceptance:          15th May 1998
        Final copy for Proceedings:          1st July 1998
        ZUM'98 in Berlin:                    24-25 September 1998

Further Information

General enquiries about the meeting and the Z User Group may be directed to:
    Mike Hinchey (Conference Chair)
    New Jersey Institute of Technology
    Department of Computer and Information Science
    University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982, USA
    Email: hinchey@cis.njit.edu
    Tel: +1-201-596-5750; Fax: +1-201-596-5777
On-line and up-to-date conference information may be found under the following World Wide Web URL:
http://www.fmse.cs.reading.ac.uk/zum98/

Submissions

Electronic submissions are encouraged. Send your submission as a compressed PostScript file to
zum98-papers@cis.njit.edu as well as a separate (plain ASCII) message containing the title of the paper, list of authors, and contact information for the corresponding author. Alternatively, four copies of submitted papers of not more than 20 pages (LNCS format) should be sent to one of the Programme Co-Chairs:
    Jonathan Bowen 
    University of Reading, Department of Computer Science
    Whiteknights, PO Box 225, Reading RG6 6AY, UK.
    Email: J.P.Bowen@reading.ac.uk
    Tel: +44-118-931-6544   Fax: +44-118-975-1994
    URL: http://www.cs.reading.ac.uk/people/jpb/

    Andreas Fett
    Daimler-Benz AG, Research and Technology
    Alt-Moabit 96a, D-10559 Berlin
    Email: Andreas.Fett@dbag.bln.DaimlerBenz.com
    Tel: +49-30-39982-209   Fax: +49-30-39982-107

Educational Issues

Papers for the educational issues session should be submitted as above, but clearly marked for consideration for the education session, which is planned to follow the meeting. Full papers accepted for the session will be considered for publication in the main proceedings. Short papers, posters, etc., should be sent by 1 May 1998 to:
    Neville Dean (Education Session Chair)
    Anglia Polytechnic University
    East Road, Cambridge CB1 1PT, UK
    Email: c.n.dean@anglia.ac.uk 
    Tel: +44-1223-363271 ext. 2329   Fax: +44-1223-352979

Tutorials

Proposals for tutorials should be sent to zum98-tuts@cis.njit.edu or to one of the tutorial session chairs by 1 May 1998:
    David Till
    City University, Department of Computer Science
    Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
    Tel: +44-171-477-8552   Fax: +44-171-477-8587
    Email: till@soi.city.ac.uk

    Wolfgang Grieskamp
    TU Berlin, FB13, IKS, Sekr FR5-13,
    Franklinstr. 28-29, D-10597 Berlin
    Email: wg@cs.tu-berlin.de

Tool Demonstrations, etc.

Proposals for tool demonstrations, publishers' stands, posters for display at the conference, etc., should be sent to
zum98-demos@cis.njit.edu or to the local organizers:
    Stephan Herrmann
    GMD FIRST
    Rudower Chaussee 5, Geb. 13.10, D-12489 Berlin
    Tel: +49-30-6392-1870   Fax: +49-30-6392-1805
    Email: sh@first.gmd.de

Programme Committee

Ali Abdallah, The University of Reading, UK
Jonathan Bowen, The University of Reading, UK 
Paolo Ciancarini, University of Bologna, Italy 
Neville Dean, Anglia Polytechnic University, UK 
John Derrick, The University of Kent at Canterbury, UK
Mark d'Inverno, University of Westminster, UK
Andy Evans, University of Bradford, UK
Andreas Fett, Daimler-Benz Research Berlin, Germany (*)
David Garlan, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA
Wolfgang Grieskamp, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (*)
Henri Habrias, University of Nantes, France 
Jonathan Hammond, Praxis Critical Systems, UK
Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia 
Stephan Herrmann, GMD, Germany (*)
Mike Hinchey, NJIT, USA & University of Limerick, Ireland 
Hans-Martin Hoercher, Vossloh System-Technik, Germany 
Jonathan Jacky, University of Washington, USA
Stefan Jähnichen GMD & Technische Univ. Berlin, Germany (*)
Randolph Johnson, National Security Agency, USA 
Kevin Lano, Imperial College, London, UK
Shaoying Liu, Hiroshima City University, Japan
Jean-Francois Monin, France Telecom CNET, France
Peter Pepper, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany (*)
Norah Power, University of Limerick, Ireland
Chris Sennett, DERA Malvern, UK 
Alf Smith, DERA Malvern, UK 
David Till, City University, London, UK 
Sam Valentine, University of York, UK 
Matthias Weber, Daimler-Benz Research Berlin, Germany
Jim Woodcock, Oxford University, UK 
John Wordsworth, IBM Hursley UK Laboratories, UK 
(*) Local organization.


ZUM'98 conference information last updated on 26 March 1998.

Original version also available via anonymous FTP from Oxford: text, compressed PostScript and uncompressed PostScript formats (2 A4 pages).

Maintained by Jonathan Bowen.