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

GENERAL CHAIR
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Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria
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
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