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FM 2016: 21st International Symposium on Formal Methods

Limassol, Cyprus, 7-11 November 2016

http://fm2016.cs.ucy.ac.cy

*** LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ***

IMPORTANT DATES

• Abstract submission deadline: 16 May 2016 • Full paper submission deadline: 30 May 2016 • Notification: 8 August 2016 • Camera ready: 5 September 2016 • Conference: 7-11 November 2016 FM 2016 is the latest in a series of symposia organized by Formal Methods Europe, an independent association that encourages the use of, and research on, formal methods for the engineering of computer-based systems and software. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a programme of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral work.

SCOPE AND TOPICS

FM 2016 will highlight the development and application of formal methods in a wide range of domains including software, computer-based systems, systems-of-systems, human interaction, manufacturing, sustainability, power, transport, cities, healthcare, and biology. We also welcome papers on experiences of formal methods in industry, and on the design and validation of formal methods tools.

FM 2016 encourages submissions on formal methods for developing and evaluating systems that interact with physical processes, and systems that use artificial intelligence technology. Examples include autonomous systems, robots, and cyber-physical systems in general. Applying formal methods to these systems of growing interest and importance is challenging because they exhibit much greater non-determinism than traditional systems, making them challenging to assure.

The broad topics of interest for FM 2016 include, but are not limited to:

• Interdisciplinary formal methods: Techniques, tools and experiences demonstrating formal methods in interdisciplinary frameworks.

• Formal methods in practice: Industrial applications of formal methods, experience with formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. Authors are encouraged to explain how formal methods overcame problems, led to improved designs, or provided new insights.

• Tools for formal methods: Advances in automated verification and model-checking, tools integration, environments for formal methods, and experimental validation of tools. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate empirically that the new tool or environment advances the state of the art.

• Role of formal methods in software and systems engineering: Development processes with formal methods, usage guidelines for formal methods, and method integration. Authors are encouraged to evaluate process innovations with respect to qualitative or quantitative improvements. Empirical studies and evaluations are also solicited.

• Theoretical foundations: All aspects of theory related to specification, verification, refinement, and static and dynamic analysis. Authors are encouraged to explain how their results contribute to the solution of practical problems with methods or tools.

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

• Manfred Broy, Technical University of Munich, Germany • Peter O'Hearn, University College London and Facebook, UK • Jan Peleska, University of Bremen and Verified Software International, Germany

SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Papers should be original work, not published or submitted elsewhere, in Springer LNCS format, written in English, submitted through Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2016).

Each paper will be evaluated by at least three members of the Programme Committee. Authors of papers reporting experimental work are strongly encouraged to make their experimental results available for use by reviewers. Similarly, case study papers should describe significant case studies and the complete development should be made available at the time of review. The usual criteria for novelty, reproducibility, correctness and the ability for others to build upon the described work apply. Tool papers should explain enhancements made compared to previously published work. A tool paper need not present the theory behind the tool but should focus more on the tool’s features, how it is used, its evaluation, and examples and screen shots illustrating the tool’s use. Authors of tool papers should make their tool available for use by reviewers.

We solicit two categories of papers:

• Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages, not counting references and appendices.

• Short papers, including tool papers, should not exceed 6 pages, not counting references and appendices. Besides tool papers, short papers are encouraged for any subject that can be described within the page limit, and in particular for novel ideas without an extensive experimental evaluation. Short papers will be accompanied by short presentations.

For regular and tool papers, an appendix can provide additional material such as details on proofs or experiments. The appendix is not part of the page count and not guaranteed to be read or taken into account by the reviewers. It should not contain information necessary to the understanding and the evaluation of the presented work. Papers will be accepted or rejected in the category in which they were submitted—there will be no “demotions” from a regular to a short paper.

BEST PAPER AWARD

During the conference, the Programme Committee Chairs will present an award to the authors of the submission selected as the FM 2016 Best Paper.

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings to appear in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of one or more journals.

LOCATION

FM 2016 is organized by the University of Cyprus and will take place at St. Raphael Resort, Limassol, Cyprus.

GENERAL CHAIR

Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

PROGRAMME CHAIRS

John S Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Stefania Gnesi, CNR-ISTI, Italy Constance L Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria Myla Archer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft Research, USA Michael Butler, University of Southampton, UK Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, UK David Clark, University College, London, UK Frank De Boer, CWI, Netherlands Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore, Singapore Javier Esparza, Technical University of Munich, Germany John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, UK Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo, Canada Diego Garbervetsky, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, USA Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Italy Wolfgang Grieskamp, Google, USA Arie Gurfinkel, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Anne E. Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Ian Hayes, University of Queensland, Australia Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Jozef Hooman, TNO-ESI and Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands Laura Humphrey, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, Norway Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, UK Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Gerwin Klein, NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark Yves Ledru, IMAG, France Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA Elizabeth Leonard, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Martin Leucker, University of Lübeck, Germany Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Zhiming Liu, Birmingham City University, UK Tiziana Margaria, Lero, Ireland Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, Italy Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Australia Dominique Méry, Université de Lorraine, LORIA, France Peter Müller, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Tobias Nipkow, TU München, Germany José Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Olaf Owe, University of Oslo, Norway Sam Owre, SRI International, USA Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Elvinia Riccobene, DTI - University of Milan, Italy Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers & University of Gothenburg, Sweden Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University, Iceland Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, Austria Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design Kenji Taguchi, AIST, Japan Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, Italy Marcel Verhoef, European Space Agency, Netherlands Alan Wassyng, McMaster University, Canada Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, Germany Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK Fatiha Zaidi, Université Paris-Sud, France Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna, Italy Lijun Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Jian Zhang, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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