Welcome message from the chairs

We are very pleased to welcome every one to the 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE 2014). In 2003 we started this journey, and we are happy to see this conference sustain through these years, and maintain a great reputation among researchers who work in various aspects of system design - in particular the area of application of formal methods in system design. Incidentally, the 1st MEMOCODE in 2003 and this 12th MEMOCODE in 2014 have the same program committee chairs, bringing some of us full circle. We must also bring to your attention that there is a subtle change in the full form of the conference title this year. For the last eleven years, we have had the title “International Conference on Methods and Models for Co-Design”, even though, we always welcomed and accepted papers that are specifically in hardware design or in software design. Therefore, this year, to reflect the true nature of the conference, we have slightly changed the title, dropping Co-Design from the title, as co-design is but only a subset of design methodologies for electronic systems.