AVoCS 2015: First Call for Papers

The 15th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS 2015)

1-4 September 2015, Edinburgh, UK

https://sites.google.com/site/avocs15/
avocs2015@easychair.org

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission of abstract (full papers): 5th June 2015
• Submission of full papers: 12th June 2015
• Notification (full papers): 14th July 2015
• Submission of research idea papers: 7th August 2015
• Notification (research idea): 14th August 2015
• Early registration: 18th August 2015
• Submissions of final versions: 21st August 2015

INVITED SPEAKERS

• Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ & the University of Oxford)
• Don Sannella (Contemplate & the University of Edinburgh)

SPONSORS

Formal Methods Europe (FME) The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)

BACKGROUND

The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2015 is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members of the international research community on tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems.

SCOPE

The subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged.

The technical programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion where special discussion sessions will be organised around the research ideas presentations.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

- Model Checking
- Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving
- SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification
- Abstract Interpretation
- Specification and Refinement
- Requirements Capture and Analysis
- Verification of Software and Hardware
- Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience
- Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems
- Dependable Systems
- Verified System Development
- Industrial Applications

WORKSHOPS

AI4FM 2015: 1 September 2015 -- www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/

VENUE

The event will be held in the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in the centre of the historic old town of Edinburgh - an UNESCO world heritage site.

STUDENT GRANTS

Thanks to sponsorships from FME and SICSA we can offer financial support for a limited number of students registering for AVoCS in the form of a registration fee waiver (full or partial). As this is limited, we ask the students that would like to take the advantage of this support to submit a short application The details on how to apply will be available in due course from the AVoCS webpage.

SUBMISSION DETAILS

Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Submissions are handled via Easychair:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2015

The papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages and should use the dedicated AVoCS 2015 EASST template available rom the the following link (for LaTeX and Word):

http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst

AVoCS also encourages the submissions of research ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages using the EASST template. The presentation of these ideas will be organised around discussions, where the presenter should also prepare a set of question in which the audience will discuss.

PROCEEDINGS

At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a Heriot-Watt University Technical Report; this report will also include the research ideas. After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the workshop post-proceedings which will appear in the Electronic Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal.

SPECIAL SCP JOURNAL ISSUE

Authors of a selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer Programming.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Ernie Cohen, University of Pennsylvania, USA
• Ewen Denney, NASA Ames, USA
• Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France
• Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK
• Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair)
• Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland
• Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick, Ireland
• Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK (co-chair)
• Gerwin Klein, NICTA/UNSW, Australia
• Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France
• Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Panagiotis (Pete) Manolios, Northeastern University, USA
• Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France
• Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands
• Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK
• Marco Roveri, FBK, Italy
• Thomas Santen, Microsoft Research, Germany
• Bernard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
• Jan Strejcek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Tayssir Touili, LIAFA, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, France
• Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK
• Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France
• Angela Wallenburg, Altran, UK
• John Wickerson, Imperial College London, UK
• Peter Olveczky, University of Oslo, Norway

ORGANISERS

• Gudmund Grov, Heriot-Watt University, UK
• Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University, UK
• Yuhui Lin, Heriot-Watt University, UK (Local arrangements and publicity chair)

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK
• Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France
• Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK

We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to
join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes.
Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how
to apply.

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