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Call for Papers: FORMALISE 2025
13th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering
27 and 28 April, 2025
co-located with ICSE 2025 (April 27-May 3, 2025), Ottawa, Canada
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Overview
Historically, formal methods academic research and practical software
development have had limited mutual interactions — except possibly in
specialized domains such as safety-critical software. In recent times, the
outlook has considerably improved: on the one hand, formal methods research has
delivered more flexible techniques and tools that can support various aspects
of the software development process: from user requirements elicitation, to
design, implementation, verification and validation, as well as the creation of
documentation. On the other hand, software engineering has developed a growing
interest in rigorous techniques applied at scale.
The FormaliSE conference series promotes work at the intersection of the formal
methods and software engineering communities, providing a venue to exchange
ideas, experiences, techniques, and results. We believe more collaboration
between these two communities can be mutually beneficial by fostering the
creation of formal methods that are practically useful and by helping develop
higher-quality software.
Originally a workshop event, since 2018 FormaliSE has been organized as a
conference co-located with ICSE. The 13th edition of FormaliSE will also take
place as a co-located conference of ICSE 2025.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
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requirements formalization and formal specification;
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approaches, methods and tools for verification and validation;
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formal approaches to safety and security related issues;
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analysis of performance and other non-functional properties based on formal
approaches;
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scalability of formal method applications
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integration of formal methods within the software development lifecycle (e.g.,
change management, continuous integration, regression testing, and deployment)
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model-based engineering approaches;
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correctness-by-construction approaches for software and systems engineering;
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application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g., autonomous,
cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems;
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formal methods for AI-based systems (FM4AI), and AI applied in formal method
approaches (AI4FM);
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formal methods in a certification context
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case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches
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experience reports on the application of formal methods to real-world problems;
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guidelines to use formal methods in practice;
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usability of formal methods.
Important dates :
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Abstracts due: 18 November 2024 (AoE) - EXTENDED DEADLINE
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Submissions: 25 November 2024 (AoE) - EXTENDED DEADLINE
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Notifications: 13 January 2025
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Camera ready copies: 5 February 2025
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FormaliSE conference: 27-28 April 2025
Paper submission guidelines
We accept papers in three categories:
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Full research papers describing original research work and results. We
encourage authors to include validation of their contributions by means of a
case study or experiments. We also welcome research papers focusing on tools
and tool development.
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Case study papers discussing a significant application that suggests general
lessons learned and motivates further research, or empirically validates
theoretical results (such as a technique's scalability).
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Research ideas papers describing new ideas in preliminary form, in a way that
can stimulate interesting discussions at the conference, and suggest future
work.
All papers submitted to the FormaliSE 2025 conference must be written in
English, must be unpublished original work, and must not be under review or
submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. Submissions must comply with the
FormaliSE's lightweight double-anonymous review process (see below).
Full research papers and case study papers can take up to 10 pages including
all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding references. Research
ideas papers can take up to 4 pages, plus up to 1 additional page solely for
references.
To avoid that authors waste time fitting their papers into the stated limit at
the expense of presentation clarity, paper lengths slightly exceeding the
stated limit will still be considered, provided that the reviewers find that
the presentation is of high quality.
All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the IEEE conference
proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting
Guidelines (i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type):
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To submit a paper to FormaliSE 2025 use this HotCRP link:
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Lightweight Double-Blind Review Process for Papers
As in recent editions, FormaliSE 2025 will use a lightweight double-anonymous
process. Authors must omit their names and institutions from the title page,
cite their own work in the third person, and omit acknowledgments that may
reveal their identity or affiliation. The purpose is reducing chances of
reviewer bias influenced by the authors’ identities. The double-anonymous
process is, however, lightweight, which means that it should not pose a heavy
burden for authors, nor should make a paper's presentation weaker or more
difficult to review. Also, advertising the paper as part of your usual research
activities (for example, on your personal web-page, in a pre-print archive, by
email, in talks or discussions with colleagues) is permitted without penalties.
Paper selection
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members that
will judge its overall quality in terms of its soundness, significance,
novelty, verifiability, and presentation clarity.
FormaliSE 2025 will adopt a lightweight response process: if all the reviewers
of a given paper agree that a clarification from the authors regarding a
specific question could move the paper from "borderline" to "accept", the
chairs will relay the reviewers' questions to the authors by email, and then
share their reply with the reviewers in HotCRP. The goal of lightweight
responses is reducing the chance of random decisions on borderline papers.
Hence, they will only be used for a minority of submissions; most papers will
not require such an author response. Nevertheless, we would ask the
corresponding authors of all submissions to make sure that they are available
to answer questions by email upon request.
Artifact Evaluation
Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an atmosphere of
trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and reward
reproducibility, FormaliSE 2025 continues its Artifact Evaluation (AE)
procedure. An artifact is any additional material (software, data sets,
machine-checkable proofs, etc.) that substantiates the claims made in the paper
and ideally makes them fully reproducible.
Submission of an artifact is optional but encouraged for all papers where it
can support the results presented in the paper. Artifact review is
single-anonymous (the paper corresponding to an artifact must still follow the
double-anonymous submissions requirements) and will be conducted concurrently
with the paper reviewing process. Artifacts will be handled by a separate
Artifact Evaluation Committee, and the Artifact Evaluation process will be set
up such that the anonymization of the corresponding papers will not be
compromised. Accepted papers with a successfully evaluated artefact will be
awarded the [EAPLS badges ( [
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badges are to be added to the camera-ready version of the paper.
Artifacts will be assessed with respect to their consistency with the results
presented in the paper, their completeness, their documentation, and their ease
of use. The Artifact Evaluation will include an initial check for technical
issues; authors of artifacts may be contacted by email within the first two
weeks after artifact submission to help resolve any technical problems that
prevent the evaluation of an artifact if necessary.
The results of an artifact evaluation will not be available to the reviewers of
the corresponding paper; hence, they will not affect the paper's acceptance
decision. However, reviewers will know whether a paper has submitted *any*
artifacts; this piece of information may be taken into account to decide
whether the paper should be accepted. Thus, if there are justifiable reasons
why a paper's artifacts cannot be submitted, they should be pointed out in the
paper so that the reviewers can appreciate them and adjust their expectations
accordingly.
Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will be
described in a dedicated page in FormaliSE 2025's website.
Publication
All accepted papers are published as part of the ICSE 2025 Proceedings in the
ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the
conference and present the paper at the conference — physically or, if the
circumstances do not allow so, virtually. Failure to register an author will
result in a paper being removed from the proceedings.
General Chairs
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Stefania Gnesi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Italy
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Nico Plat, Thanos, The Netherlands
Program Chairs
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Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
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Gwen Salaün, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
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Ákos Hajdu, Meta, UK
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Lina Marsso, University of Toronto, Canada
Social Media Chair
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Quentin Nivon, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Program committee
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Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria
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Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
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Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
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Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
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Giovanna Broccia, ISTI - CNR, Italy
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Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
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Pablo Castro, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina
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Zhenbang Chen, NUDT, China
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Nancy Day, University of Waterloo, Canada
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Francisco Durán, University of Málaga, Spain
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Marie Farrell, University of Manchester, UK
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Carlo A. Furia, USI Lugano, Switzerland
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Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran
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Divya Gopinath, KBR/ NASA Ames Research Center, USA
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Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Concordia University, Canada
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Paula Herber, University of Münster, Germany
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Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands
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Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
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Xiaoqing Jin, Apple Inc., USA
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Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
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Oleksandr Kolchyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
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Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
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Larissa Meinicke, University of Queensland, Australia
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Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
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Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
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Arpit Sharma, EECS Department, IISER Bhopal, India
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Allison Sullivan, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
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Heike Wehrheim, University of Oldenburg, Germany
