*** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS *** The 10th NASA Formal Methods Symposium 30 Years of Formal Methods at NASA ------------------------------------- https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ April 17-19, 2018 Newport News Marriott at City Center Newport News, VA, USA
Theme of the Symposium ---------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ------------------------------------------------- * Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis * Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving * Use of formal methods in software and system testing * Run-time verification * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods such as abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and/or distributed techniques * Code generation from formally verified models * Safety cases and system safety * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development * Formalization of mathematics and physics Submission Details ------------------ There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (maximum 15 pages) 2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with preliminary results (maximum 6 pages) All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee. Papers will appear in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), and must use LNCS style formatting (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2018 Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11334). Important Dates --------------- Abstract Submission: December 1, 2017 ** Extended ** Paper Submission: December 11, 2017 ** Extended ** Paper Notification: January 23, 2018 Camera Ready Deadline: February 6, 2018 Symposium: April 17-19, 2018 Program Committee ---------------- Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil Julia Badger, NASA, USA Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft, USA Jasmin Christian Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Sylvie Boldo, Inria, France Kalou Cabrera Castillos, LAAS-CNRS, France Misty Davies, NASA, USA Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI, Italy Alberto Griggio, FBK, Itlaly George Hagen, NASA, USA John Harrison, Intel, USA Klaus Havelund, JPL/NASA, USA Ashlie Hocking, Dependable Computing, USA Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA Rajeev Joshi, JPL/NASA, USA Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA Lee Pike, USA Murali Rangarajan, Boeing, USA Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy Camilo Rocha, Universidad Javeriana de Cali, Colombia Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado Boulder, USA Johann Schumann, SGT, USA Konrad Slind, Rockwell Collins, USA Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Christoph Torens, DLR, Germany Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Virginie Wiels, ONERA, France Organizing Committee ---------------- Anthony Narkawicz (Conference Chair) Aaron Dutle (Program Committee Co-Chair) Cesar Munoz (Program Committee Co-Chair) Location -------- The symposium will take place at Newport News Marriott at City Center, Newport News, VA, USA. Registration is required but is free of charge. Contact -------- Email: nfm2018 [at] easychair [dot] org Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ hol-info mailing list hol-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hol-info
