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The Second IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods (SEFM 2004) will be held in Beijing, the capital of China, during 28-30 September 2004. Affiliated workshops and tutorials will be organized on 26 and 27 September 2004, and call for workshops and tutorials will be circulated separately by the Workshop/Tutorial chair.

SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of the conference is to bring together practitioners and researchers from academia, industry and government to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to scale up their application in software industry and to encourage their integration with practical engineering methods.

Authors are encouraged to submit both theoretical and practical results as well as demonstration of new tools/applications.
Topics include but are not limited to:
  • requirement analysis and specification
  • software architectures and their description languages
  • software specification, validation and verification
  • software design and refinement
  • models of programs and systems
  • object and multi-agent systems
  • coordination and feature interaction
  • integration of formal and informal methods
  • integration of different formal methods
  • component-based development
  • service-oriented development
  • aspect-oriented development
  • formal aspects of security and mobility
  • model checking and theorem proving
  • fault-tolerant, real-time and hybrid systems
  • analysis of safety-critical systems
  • formal aspects of software evolution and maintenance
  • formal methods for testing, re-engineering and reuse
  • light-weight formal methods
  • prototyping and visualisation
  • CASE tools and tool integration
  • application to industrial cases
  • formal methods for industrial standardisation
  • socio-economic implications of the use of formal methods

Submissions must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
The proceedings of the conference will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. The best papers will be selected to be published in the International Journal on Software and Systems Modelling published by Springer http://www.sosym.org.

Authors of both research and tool papers are strongly encouraged to submit their papers in electronic form. Papers should be written in English and not exceed 10 pages in IEEE format. Instructions for authors are available at http://computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Latex formatting macros are available at ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/. Further information and instructions about submissions can be found on the conference website.
TOOLS SESSION
Authors are encouraged to submit papers describing tools suitable for off-line presentation and/or on-line demonstration. Tool papers will undergo a regular review process and will be published in the conference proceedings. Authors willing to give a demonstration are required to bring all needed equipment and software.
IMPORTANT DATES

15 April 2004  Title and Abstract Submission deadline
21 April 2004  Paper Submission deadline
18 June 2004  Acceptance/Rejection notification
10 July 2004  Camera-ready version due
26-27 September 2004  Tutorials and workshops
28-30 September 2004  SEFM 2004 in Beijing, China
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