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FIT is a series of international workshops devoted to Foundations of Interface Technologies.
Aims and Scope
Component-based design is widely considered as a major approach to developing systems in a time and cost effective way. Central in this approach is the notion of an interface. Interfaces summarize the externally visible properties of a component and are seen as a key to achieving component interoperability and to predict global system behavior based on the component behavior. To capture the intricacy of complex software products, rich interfaces have been proposed. These interfaces do not only specify syntactic properties, such as the signatures of methods and operations, but also take into account behavioral and extra-functional properties, such as quality of service, security and dependability. Rich interfaces have been proposed for describing, e.g., the legal sequences of messages or method calls accepted by components, or the resource and timing constraints in embedded software. The development of a rigorous framework for the specification and analysis of rich interfaces is challenging. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are interested in the formal underpinnings of interface technologies.
Past and upcoming editions of FIT
 | FIT 2005: San Francisco, August 21 |
| FIT 2008: Budapest, April 8 |
| FIT 2010: (more info coming) |
Steering committee of FIT
| Holger Hermanns, Saarland University and INRIA Rhône-Alpes |
| Jakob Rehof, Fraunhofer ISST and Technical University Dortmund |
| Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente |
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