FORTE 2025: Call for Papers

The 45th International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components, and Systems (FORTE 2025) is a forum for fundamental research on theory, models, tools, and applications for distributed systems. It is one of the three conferences of DisCoTec 2025, the 20th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques.

FORTE 2025 invites submissions focused on foundational aspects of distributed software systems, presenting approaches or tools to formally model, soundly implement, and rigorously validate these systems.

Topics of Interest

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 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.
• 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.

Artefact Submission

We invite you to also submit an associated artefact for evaluation (AE). Artefacts such as ancillary data, tools, and software will be assessed for availability, functionality, and reusability badges.

Instructions on how to upload artefacts can be found here.

Artefact submissions are mandatory for tool papers and optional for regular papers. Tool papers must submit an artefact that, at least, satisfies the requirements for the Functional badge. Papers not meeting this clause are rejected. Moreover, the acceptance of artefacts is conditional on the tool paper being accepted.

Choose the “FORTE 2025 Artefact Evaluation” track in EasyChair when submitting your artefact.

Publication

The FORTE proceedings will be published by Springer as LNCS-IFIP volume 15732 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)

More Information

For additional information, please contact the Program Committee Co-chairs: forte2025 at easychair dot org