FORTE 2025 - 45th International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems

FORTE 2025 is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2025, the 20th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques.

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Topics of Interest

FORTE 2025 is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems.

We invite submissions focused on foundational aspects of distributed software systems, presenting approaches or tools to formally model, soundly implement, and rigorously validate these demanding but ever more necessary systems and applications. As our dependency on such software systems grow, also our responsibility as researchers grows to provide both trustworthy and usable solutions.

The main topics of interest include:

Language concepts for concurrency and distribution, supported by rigorous semantics, well-supported pragmatics, and/or expressive illustrative use-cases.
Analyses techniques, methodologies, and/or algorithms, using testing and/or verification, to validate (aspects of) the soundness of various types of concurrent and distributed systems, including communication and network protocols, service-oriented systems, adaptive distributed systems, cyber-physical systems and sensor networks.
Principles for qualitative and quantitative security analysis of distributed systems.
Applications of formal methods and techniques for studying the quality, reliability, availability, and safety of concrete distributed systems. We are specially interested in “real-life” case studies and industrial applications involving real distributed systems.
Emerging challenges and hot topics in distributed systems (broadly construed), such as software-defined networks, distributed ledgers, smart contracts, and blockchain technologies, etc.

Submission and Publication

Categories of Papers

We solicit papers in the following categories:

Regular papers (7-15 pages, not counting references): describing thorough and complete research results and experience reports. Regular papers may be combined with an artefact submission. Companion artefacts to regular submissions will be reviewed by the Artefact Evaluation Committee, but the acceptance of the paper is decoupled from the acceptance of the artefact (does not depend on it). The acceptance of the artefact, however, is conditional to the acceptance of the paper.
Tool papers (7-15 pages, not counting references): describing technological artefacts in the scope of the research topics of FORTE. The paper should present the underlying theory of the tool, a clear account of the tool’s functionality and limitations, and include case studies (with rigorous experimental evaluation). In addition, the tool artefact must be submitted separately for evaluation. Acceptance of the tool artefact is mandatory for tool papers to be accepted. The artefact will be evaluated by a dedicated committee. The paper must contain a link to a publicly downloadable MPEG-4 demo video of at most 10 minutes, to be submitted until a week after the paper submission deadline.
Short papers (up to 6 pages, not counting references): describing innovative and promising ideas, possibly in an early form, or demonstrating new tools (components), or presenting (i) calls to action, or (ii) substantiated reflections on current and/or future research perspectives related to FORTE, or a summary of a published journal paper clarifying why the presentation would enrich the program of FORTE.

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Publication

Publication of proceedings is coordinated among the three DisCoTec conferences (see the Conferences page for details). The FORTE proceedings will be published by Springer as an LNCS-IFIP volume and will comprise accepted submissions from all categories.

Special Issue

Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Logical Methods in Computer Science.

Program Committee Chairs

Carla Ferreira (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Claudio A. Mezzina (University of Urbino, Italy)

Program Committee Members

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Artefact Evaluation Committee chair

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Artefact Evaluation Committee

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Steering committee

Christel Baier (University Dresden, Germany)
Valentina Castiglioni (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta)
Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Ivan Lanese (University of Bologna/INRIA, Italy – Chair)
Jorge A. Pérez (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
Kirstin Peters (Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany)
Anna Philippou (University of Ciprus, Ciprus)
Antonio Ravara (NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA, France)
Nobuko Yoshida (University of Oxford, UK)