FM 2015: Final Call for Papers (20th Intl. Symposium on FormalMethods, Oslo)
20th International Symposium on Formal Methods
Oslo, Norway, June 22-26, 2015
Call for Papers
NEWS:
There will be special issues of the Journals
- Acta Informatica and
- Formal Aspects of Computing
featuring selected papers from FM 2015.
There will be 11 satellite workshops scheduled for
22-23 June, preceding the main conference. For
the list of workshops, see below.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Jan 2 Abstract submission deadline
Jan 9 Full paper submission deadline
March 23 Notification
June 22-26 Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS
FM 2015 is the twentieth in a series of symposia organized by Formal
Methods Europe, an independent association whose aim is to stimulate
the use of, and research on, formal methods for software development.
The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together
innovators and practitioners in precise mathematical methods for
software and systems development, industrial users, as well as
researchers. The FM symposia welcome original papers on research and
industrial experience, proposals for workshops and tutorials, entries
for the exhibition of software tools and projects, and reports on
ongoing doctoral work.
SCOPE AND TOPICS
FM 2015 will have the goal of highlighting the development and
application of formal methods. This includes uses of formal methods in
a variety of disciplines such as medicine, biology, human cognitive
modeling, human automation interactions and aeronautics, among others.
FM 2015 particularly welcomes papers on techniques, tools and
experiences in interdisciplinary frameworks, as well as on experience
with practical applications of formal methods in industrial and
research settings, empirical and experimental validation of tools and
methods as well as construction and evolution of formal methods tools.
The broad topics of interest for FM 2015 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 introducing formal methods in industry, tool usage
reports, experiments with challenge problems.
Authors are encouraged to explain how the use of formal methods has
overcome problems, lead to improvements in design or provided new
insights.
Tools for formal methods: advances in automated verification and
model-checking, integration of tools, environments for formal methods,
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, 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.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain Werner Damm, Carl
von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg, DE Valerie Issarny, INRIA, France
Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research, US
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the Programme
Committee. They should be in Springer LNCS format and describe, in
English, original work that has not been published or submitted
elsewhere.
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. In other words, 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 can focus more on its features, and how it is used, evaluation,
with screen shots and examples. Authors of tool papers should make
their tool available for use by reviewers.
Papers should be submitted through the FM 2015 EasyChair web site:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fm2015.
We solicit two categories of papers:
Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, not counting
references.
Short papers, including tool papers, should not exceed 6 pages, not
counting references. 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
guaranteed to be read or taken into account by the reviewers and 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
FM 2015 will as a new feature have a best paper award.
A best paper will be selected among accepted papers, and the award
will be presented at the conference.
PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings, to
appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
GENERAL CHAIR
Einar Broch Johnsen, University of Oslo, NO
PC CHAIRS
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, US
Frank S. de Boer, CWI, NL
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University
Bernhard K. Aichernig, TU Graz
Gilles Barthe, IMDEA Software Institute
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research
Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University
Michael Butler, University of Southampton
Andrew Butterfield, Trinity College Dublin
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York
David Clark, University College London
Frank S. de Boer, CWI
Jin Song Dong, National University of Singapore
Michael Emmi, IMDEA Software Institute
John Fitzgerald, Newcastle University
Nate Foster, Cornell University
Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo
Diego Garbervetsky, Dep. de Computacion. U. de Buenos Aires Dimitra
Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center
Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah
Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology
Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University
Reiner Haehnle, Technical University of Darmstadt
Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Anne E. Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark
Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland
Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Daniel Jackson, MIT
Cliff Jones, Newcastle University
Gerwin Klein, NICTA and UNSW
Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology
Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford
Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University
Yves Ledru, Lab. d'Informatique de Grenoble, U. Joseph Fourier
Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research
Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck
Shaoying Liu, Hosei University
Tom Maibaum, McMaster University
Dominique Mery, Universite de Lorraine, LORIA
Peter Mueller, ETH Zuerich
Cesar Munoz, National Aeronautics and Space Administration
David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology
Tobias Nipkow, TU Muenchen
Jose Oliveira, Universidade do Minho
Olaf Owe, University of Oslo
Sam Owre, SRI International
Andrei Paskevich, Universite Paris-Sud 11, IUT d'Orsay
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center
Sanjit A. Seshia, UC Berkeley
Natasha Sharygina, Universita' della Svizzera Italiana Viorica
Sofronie-Stokkermans, Max-Planck Institute for Informatics
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Kenji Taguchi, AIST
Margus Veanes, Microsoft Research
Ji Wang, National Lab. for Parallel and Distributed Processing
Alan Wassyng, McMaster University
Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn
Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota
Jim Woodcock, University of York
Gianluigi Zavattaro, University of Bologna
Pamela Zave, AT&T
SATELLITE WORKSHOPS (at 22-23. June, preceding the main conference)
- FMICS (Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems)
- Overture/VDM
- WWV (Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems)
- Refinement
- ESSS (Engineering Safety and Security Systems)
- SAFOME (Safety and Formal Methods)
- USE (Usages of Symbolic Execution)
- SETS (Sets and Tools)
- FMSEET (Formal Methods in Software Engineering Education and Training)
- Formal Methods and Model-Driven Engineering in Robotics
- F-IDE (Formal Integrated Development Environment)