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Call for Papers
18th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM’26)
5-7 May 2026
Los Angeles, CA
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--- Symposium Theme ---
The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and
safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry requires advanced
technologies to address their specification, design, verification, validation,
and certification. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum to foster
collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, other
government agencies, academia, and industry, with the goal of identifying
challenges and providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such
critical systems. The focus of this symposium is on formal techniques for
software and system assurance for applications in space, aviation, robotics,
and other NASA-relevant critical systems.
--- Topics of Interest ---
Core Formal Methods – Formal verification techniques like interactive and
automated theorem proving, SAT/SMT solvers, model checking, and static
analysis; logic-based specification formalisms; program and specification
synthesis, code transformation and generation; runtime verification and test
case generation; scenario-based testing; probabilistic/statistical methods;
techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods; design for verification
and correct-by-design techniques; requirements generation, specification, and
validation.
Integration of Formal Methods – Integration of formal methods and software
engineering; integration of diverse formal methods techniques; integration of
formal methods with simulation, analysis, and test approaches; integration of
learning-based techniques with formal methods; use of AI models (e.g., LLMs) in
formal methods pipelines, and other neuro-symbolic methods.
Formal Methods in Practice – Experience reports on applications of formal
methods in industry; use of formal methods in education; applications of formal
methods to concurrent, distributed, and fault-tolerant systems, human-machine
systems, autonomous systems, cyber-physical systems, fault-detection,
diagnostics, and prognostics systems; formal reasoning about real-time systems,
scheduling, and planning; and formal reasoning about artifacts generated by
AI-based language models (such as LLMs, vision-language-action models, etc.).
--- NASA OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE ---
Courageous authors, who want to delve in open source software being applied in
real NASA missions, and find possible connections to, and applications of
Formal Methods, are invited to visit the open source repositories for the
following two frameworks for programming flight software:
- F'
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- cFS
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--- Submission ---
There are two categories of submissions:
Regular papers – Up to 18 pages plus references. Regular papers describe fully
developed work and complete results.
Short papers — Up to 6 pages plus references. Short papers describe either
novel and publicly available tools, case studies detailing applications of
formal methods, or new emerging ideas in the topics of interest.
All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been
published or submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted papers must present their
work in person at the conference.
Policy on the use of Gen AI: We understand the convenience afforded by the use
of generative AI-based large language models to produce text in the submitted
manuscript. However, we strongly encourage the authors to check the generated
text for factual errors and inconsistencies. We encourage the authors to adopt
appropriate standards for citing products obtained using generative AI (such as
text, tables, graphics). Use of AI-based coding assistants is permitted, and we
encourage authors to disclose the use of such tools as the community may find
this scientifically interesting.
All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the Program Committee. NFM
is currently arranging to publish accepted regular and short papers in the
Formal Methods subline of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Authors should therefore use the LNCS style formatting described at
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. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the Openreview submission
site here:
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. Detailed instructions on submitting papers through the Openreview submission
system can be found on the NFM 2026 website.
--- Important Dates ---
Paper submission January 10, 2025
Author notification March 10, 2026
Camera ready deadline March 30, 2026
Symposium May 5-7, 2026
--- Location ---
The symposium will be organized jointly by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
and the Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science at the University of
Southern California (USC). The symposium will be held on the campus of USC,
which is around 3 miles south of downtown Los Angeles. USC is the largest
private university in southern California, and is well-connected to the rest of
the city by LA Metro. It is also close to a number of museums.
--- Cost ---
There will be no registration fee charged to participants as is common for NFM
symposia. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to
attend, listen to the talks, and participate in discussions. However, all
attendees must register.
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