1. July 25, 2005 Workshop on Rigorous Engineering of Fault- Tolerant Systems (REFT 2005) at the 13th International Symposium of Formal Methods 2005 Newcastle upon Tyne, UK July 19, 2005 WORKSHOP ORGANISERS Michael Butler (University of Southampton) Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Alexander Romanovsky (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Elena Troubitsyna (Aabo Akademi)

2. July 25, 2005 RODIN Rigorous Open Development Environment for Complex Systems STREP, IST FP6 Project IST 2004-511599 September 1, 2004 - August 31, 2007

3. July 25, 2005 RODIN Participants University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Coordinator) Aabo Akademi University, Turku, Finland ClearSy System Engineering, France Nokia Corporation, Finland Praxis Critical Systems Ltd, UK VT Engine Controls Ltd, UK Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich, Switzerland University of Southampton, UK RODIN Industrial Interest Group: Adelard, Alstom Transportation, AWE Aldermaston, DGA, Escher Technologies, Gemplus, IBM UK, I.C.C.C. Group, QinetiQ, RATP, STMicroelectronics, VTT, CETIC/FAUST, SYSTEREL RODIN Associates Group: Université Technologique de Compiègne, University of New South Wales, University of Luxembourg, University of Versailles, University of York, Düsseldorf University, Loria

4. July 25, 2005 The overall objective of RODIN is to create a methodology and supporting open tool platform for the cost-effective rigorous development of dependable complex software systems and services Main Advances in: - Formal design methods - Fault tolerance - Design abstractions - Tool platform Tackling complexity of the software systems and of the environment

5. July 25, 2005 Workshop on Rigorous Engineering of Fault-Tolerant Systems (REFT 2005) Invited talk Invited presentations: IST Software Technologies Unit AOSD IST NoE Demonstration 13 presentations Proceedings: M. Butler, C. Jones, A. Romanovsky, E. Troubitsyna. Proc. of the Workshop on Rigorous Engineering of Fault-Tolerant Systems (REFT 2005). School of Computing Science, Technical Report Series, CS-TR-915, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 2005. ISSN 1368-1060. A State of the Art Series proposal for Springer LNCS. Invited papers.