First Call for Papers: CAV 2016, July 17-23, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
28th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2016)
July 17-23, 2016 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | http://i-cav.org/2016/
Important Dates (All deadlines are 4pm EST):
- Abstract submission: January 17, 2016 (Sunday)
- Paper submission: January 29, 2016 (Friday)
- Author response period: March 23-25, 2016 (Wednesday-Friday)
- Author Notification: April 15, 2016 (Friday)
- Conference: July 17-23, 2016
Scope
CAV 2016 is the 28th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding to new domains such as biological systems and computer security. The conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
- Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
- Mathematical and logical foundations of verification and synthesis
- Specifications and correctness criteria for programs and systems
- Deductive verification using proof assistants
- Hardware verification techniques
- Program analysis and software verification
- Software synthesis
- Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
- Compositional and abstraction-based techniques for verification
- Probabilistic and statistical approaches to verification
- Verification methods for parallel and concurrent systems
- Testing and run-time analysis based on verification technology
- Decision procedures and solvers for verification and synthesis
- Applications and case studies in verification and synthesis
- Verification in industrial practice
- New application areas for algorithmic verification and synthesis
- Formal models and methods for security
- Formal models and methods for biological systems
Paper Submission
*** NEW this year: Double-blind submissions ***
Submissions on a wide range of topics are sought, particularly ones that identify new research directions. CAV 2016 is not limited to topics discussed in previous instances of the conference. Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate by electronic mail with the conference chairs prior to submission.
As explained below, CAV 2016 will follow a lightweight double-blind review process. Submissions that are not "blinded" will be rejected without review.
Submissions will be in two categories: Regular Papers and Tool Papers.
- Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. These papers should contain original research and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. Papers will be evaluated on basis of a combination of correctness, technical depth, significance, novelty, clarity, and elegance. We welcome papers on theory, case studies and comparisons with existing experimental research, as well as combinations of new theory with experimental evaluation. A strong theoretical paper is not required to have an experimental component. On the other hand, strong papers reproducing and comparing existing results experimentally do not require new theoretical insights.
- Tool Papers should not exceed 6 pages, not counting references. These papers should describe system and implementation aspects of a tool with a large (potential) user base (experiments not required, rehash of theory strongly discouraged). Papers describing tools that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented.
Unlike last year, there is no separate Short Paper category.
Prior to the registration deadline, the authors will register their paper by uploading information on the submission title, abstract (of at most 300 words), authors, topics, and conflicts to the conference web site. Papers that are not registered on time will be rejected.
We encourage authors to provide any supplementary material that is required to support the claims made in the paper, such as detailed proofs or experimental data. These materials should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL. It will be made available to reviewers only after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and hence need not be anonymized. Reviewers are under no obligation to look at the supplementary material but may refer to it if they have questions about the material in the body of the paper.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed.
The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission will be via the HotCRP system. The submission URL will be available on the website of the conference closer to the deadline.
Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process
CAV 2016 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. This means that committee members will not have access to authors' names or affiliations as they review a paper; however, authors' names will be revealed once reviews have been submitted and online discussion has begun.
To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules:
- author names and institutions must be omitted, and
- references to authors' own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work ..." but rather "We build on the work of ...").
The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission or makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult (e.g., important background references should not be omitted or anonymized). In addition, authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas. A document answering frequently asked questions about the double-blind review process is available on the conference website.
Artifact Evaluation
Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit their artifacts for evaluation by a special committee.
Organizers
Chairs
- Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University, USA
- Azadeh Farzan, University of Toronto, Canada
CAV Award Committee
- Ahmed Bouajjani (Chair), Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
- Tom Ball, Microsoft Research
- Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University
- Natarajan Shankar, SRI International
Program Committee
- Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania
- Christel Baier, Technische Universitat Dresden
- Clark Barrett, New York University
- Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology
- Pavol Cerny, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Adam Chlipala, MIT
- Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Loris D'Antoni, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Constantin Enea, Univ. Paris Diderot (Paris 7)
- Javier Esparza, Technische Universitat Munchen
- Kousha Etessami, University of Edinburgh
- Susanne Graf, VERIMAG
- Orna Grumberg, Technion
- Franjo Ivancic, Google
- Somesh Jha, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego
- Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University
- Zachary Kincaid, University of Toronto
- Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology
- Viktor Kuncak, EPFL
- Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research
- Akash Lal, Microsoft Research
- Pete Manolios, Northeastern University
- Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research
- David Monniaux, VERIMAG
- Marta Kwaitkowska, Oxford Unive
- Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent
- David Parker, University of Birmingham
- Corina Pasareneau, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA Ames
- Ruzica Piskac, Yale University
- Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg
- Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research
- Andrey Rybalchenko, Microsoft Research
- Mooly Sagiv, Tel Aviv University
- Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley
- Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano
- Sharon Shoham, Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo
- Armando Solar-Lezama, MIT
- Fabio Somenzi, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Serdar Tesiran, Koc University
- Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
- Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica
- Thomas Wies, New York University
- Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois, Chicago
Workshop Chair
- Zachary Kincaid, University of Toronto, Canada
Artifact Evaluation Chair
- Aws Albarghouthi, University of Wisconsin, USA
Publicity Chair
- Roopsha Samanta, IST, Austria
Steering Committee
- Michael Gordon, University of Cambridge, UK
- Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel
- Aarti Gupta, Princeton University, USA
- Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA