Call for Papers - DEADLINE EXTENDED OpenCert 2009 3rd International Workshop on Foundations and Techniques for Open Source Software Certification York, UK - 28 March 2009 Satellite Event of ETAPS 2009 http://opencert.iist.unu.edu/ Submission deadline: 20 January, 2009 (EXTENDED) CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVES Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way software systems and and software-based services are developed, distributed and deployed. Widely acknowledged benefits of OSS include reliability, low development and maintenance costs, as well as rapid code turnover. Linux distributions, Apache and MySQL serve, among many other examples, as a testimony to its success and resilience. However, state-of-the-art OSS, by the very nature of its open, unconventional, distributed development model, make software quality assessment, let alone full certification, particularly hard to achieve and raises important challenges both from the technical/methodological and the managerial points of view. This makes the use of OSS, and, in particular, its integration within complex industrial-strength applications, with stringent security requirements, a risk. And, simultaneously an opportunity and a challenge for rigorous, mathematically based, methods in software analysis and engineering. In such a context, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from academia and industry who are broadly interested in the quality assessment of open source software projects, ultimately leading to the establishment of coherent certification processes, at different levels. Following the success of the two previous editions (collocated to ETAPS'07, in Braga, and OSS'08, at IFIP WCC, in Milan, respectively), the workshop will focus on formal methods and model-based techniques that appear promising to facilitate OSS certification. Both foundational, methodological and pragmatic issues will be addressed, through both standard technical communications and reports on concrete case-studies and experimental data. Contributions are expected to foster a broad debate on OSS assessment and certification, integrating techniques and elements from areas as different as - product and process certification - certification standards - formal modelling and verification (model checking and theorem proving) - software quality and reverse engineering - static analysis, testing and inspection - safety and security certification - language design and evolving systems WORKSHOP FORMAT AND SUBMISSION The one-day workshop will feature invited talks, a pannel discussion and contributed paper presentations. All contibutions, in the form of either full technical papers or short position papers, will undergo a peer-review process. All papers should be written in English and not exceed 10 pages. Detailed information on the submission procedure are available at http://opencert.iist.unu.edu/ All inquiries should be sent to: opencert-2009@iist.unu.edu PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published in Electronic Communications of the EASST (eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de/index.php/eceasst). Publication of selected papers in a journal is currently under negotiation. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline: 20 January, 2009 (Extended) - Acceptance notification: 14 February, 2009 (Extended) ORGANISERS Luis Barbosa University of Minho, Portugal Antonio Cerone United Nations University, Macau SAR China Siraj Shaikh Cranfield University, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEES Luis Barbosa University of Minho, Portugal (Co-chair) Manuel Barbosa University of Minho, Portugal Roberto Barbuti University of Pisa, Italy Cornelia Boldyreff University of Lincoln, UK Vicky Bush University of Gloucestershire, UK Andrea Capiluppi University of Lincoln, UK Antonio Cerone United Nations University, Macau SAR China (Co-chair) Gabriel Ciobanu Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Romania Roberto Di Cosmo Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France Ernesto Damiani University of Milan, Italy Jesus Arias Fisteus Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Dan Ghica University of Birmingham, UK Stefania Gnesi ISTI-CNR, Italy Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain Sotiris Ioannidis FORTH-ICS, Greece Tomasz Janowski United Nations University, Macau SAR China Fabio Kon University of São Paulo, Brazil Paddy Krishnan Bond University, Australia Bernard Lang INRIA, France John Noll Santa Clara University, USA David von Oheimb Siemens, Germany Alexander K. Petrenko ISP RAS, Russia Simon Pickin Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Siraj Shaikh Cranfield University, UK (Co-chair) Volker Stolz United Nations University, Macau SAR China Ralf Treinen Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7, France Joost Visser Software Improvement Group, The Netherlands Tanja E. J. Vos Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain Tony Wasserman Carnegie Mellon University, USA Jim Woodcock University of York, UK STEERING COMMITTEE Bernhard Aichernig TU Graz, Austria Jose Nuno Oliveira Univ. of Minho, Portugal Antonio Cerone United Nations University, Macau SAR China Martin Michlmayr Cambridge, UK David von Oheimb Siemens, Germany