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DIFTS'13 DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of FORMAL TOOLS and SYSTEMS CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** Second International Workshop on Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems (co-located with FMCAD 2013) http://www.cmpe.boun.edu.tr/difts13/ Portland, OR, USA October 19, 2013 IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: July 24, 2013 Author notification: August 24, 2014 INVITED SPEAKERS Rance Cleaveland, Reactive Systems Inc., USA Masahiro Fujita, The University of Tokyo, Japan Dhiraj Goswami, Synopsys Inc., USA WORKSHOP SCOPE DIFTS (Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems) workshop emphasizes insightful experiences in formal tools and systems design. The first DIFTS workshop was held in 2011. It provides a forum for sharing challenges and solutions that are original with ground breaking results. Often the design and implementation of tools for formal analysis require non-trivial engineering decisions. Many challenges are faced, which often can only be met with ingenious implementation techniques. These techniques actually play a crucial role in making the idea work in practice. The workshop provides an opportunity for discussing engineering aspects and various design decisions required to put such formal tools and systems into practical use. TOPICS OF INTEREST DIFTS takes a broad view of the formal tools/systems area, and solicits contributions from domains including, but not restricted to, decision procedures, verification, testing, validation, diagnosis, debugging, and synthesis. This workshop encourages and appreciates system development activities, and facilitates transparency in the experimentation. It will also serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in practicing formal methods. SUBMISSION The workshop specifically solicits contributions with substantial engineering details that often do not get published but has significant practical impact. Papers in the following two categories are solicited: (a) system category (10 pages, double column, 11pt), and (b) tool category (8 pages, double column, 11pt). In the system category, we invite papers that have original ideas accompanied with novel integration techniques, adequate design/implementation details, important design choices made and explored, and good experimental results. In the tool category, we invite papers that focus primarily on the engineering aspects of some known/popular algorithm, with significant emphasis on the design/implementation details, and various design choices made to advance current state-of-the-art approaches. The page limit for submissions in the system category is 10 pages in double column format and for submissions in the tool category is 8 pages in double column format. Submission of papers should be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. More details will be provided on the DIFTS web site. EVALUATION To keep maintain uniformity and fairness in the reviewing process, the program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission based on the following guidelines: the paper should provide enough details for others to reproduce the results; and should solve a clearly-stated problem that is significant and has wide interest; and the paper should provide enough motivation for the design choices made. Overall, the paper should also clearly identify what the main contributions of the work are. PUBLICATION All accepted contributions will be included in informal proceedings. High quality submissions will be considered for a special issue of journals such as FMSD (Formal Methods in System Design) or IEEE TC (Transactions on Computers). ORGANIZATION PROGRAM CHAIRS Malay K. Ganai, NEC Labs America, USA Alper Sen, Bogazici University, Turkey PROGRAM COMMITTEE Armin Biere, Johannes Kelpler University, Austria Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Franco Fummi, University of Verona, Italy Malay K. Ganai, NEC Labs America, USA Daniel Grosse, University of Bremen, Germany William Hung, Synopsys Inc., USA Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK Alper Sen, Bogazici University, Turkey Ofer Strichman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA |
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