FMICS-AVoCS 2016
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
International Workshop on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems and Automated Verification of Critical Systems (FMICS-AVoCS 2016)
Pisa, Italy | 26-29 September 2016 | http://fmics-avocs.isti.cnr.it/
The aim of the FMICS workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers who are interested in the development and application of formal methods in industry. The aim of the AVoCS workshop series 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.
In 2016, FMICS and AVoCS join their forces to hold a workshop combining their themes on Formal Methods and Automated Verification. For FMICS, this will be the 21st, for AVoCS the 16th edition.
In particular, FMICS-AVoCS 2016 http://fmics-avocs.isti.cnr.it/ aims to bring together scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal methods, develop tools and techniques for the automated verification of critical systems, and are interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods and tools.
Important Dates
- Abstract submission: April 18, 2016
- Paper submission: April 25, 2016
- Notification: June 19, 2016
- Final version due: July 10, 2016
- Workshop: September 26-29, 2016
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Design, specification, refinement, code generation and testing of critical systems based on formal methods.
- Methods, techniques and tools to support automated analysis, certification, debugging, learning, optimization and transformation of critical systems, in particular distributed, real-time systems and embedded systems.
- Automated verification (model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, etc.) of critical systems
- Verification and validation methods that address shortcomings of existing methods with respect to their industrial applicability (e.g., scalability and usability issues).
- Tools for the development of formal design descriptions.
- Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new research directions.
- Impact of the adoption of formal methods on the development process and associated costs. Application of formal methods in standardization and industrial forums.
Paper Submission
Submissions must describe authors' original research work and results.
Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated.
Submissions should clearly demonstrate relevance to industrial application. Case study papers should identify lessons learned, validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods), or provide specific motivation for further research and development.
Submissions should not exceed 15 pages formatted according to the LNCS style (Springer), and should be submitted as Portable Document Format (PDF) files using the EasyChair submission site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmicsavocs2016
All submissions will be reviewed by the program committee who will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, soundness and applicability of the presented ideas and results.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
General Chair
- Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) maurice.terbeek@isti.cnr.it
PC Chairs
- Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) stefania.gnesi@isti.cnr.it
- Alexander Knapp (Augsburg University, Germany) knapp@informatik.uni-augsburg.de
PC Members (to be completed)
- MarIa Alpuente (Universitat PolitEcnica de ValEncia, Spain)
- Jiri Barnat (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
- Michael Dierkes (Rockwell Collins, France)
- Cindy Eisner (IBM Research Haifa, Israel)
- Alessandro Fantechi (Universit++ di Firenze, Italy)
- Francesco Flammini (University "Federico II" of Naples, Italy)
- Maria Del Mar Gallardo (University of Malaga, Spain)
- Michael Goldsmith (University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
- Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom)
- Matthias Gudemann (Systerel, France)
- Gerwin Klein (NICTA and University of New South Wales, Australia)
- Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
- Thierry Lecomte (ClearSy, France)
- Radu Mateescu (INRIA Grenoble - RhUne-Alpes, France)
- David Mentre (Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe, France)
- Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy, France)
- Manuel Nunez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain)
- Peter Olveczky (University of Oslo, Norway)
- Charles Pecheur (UniversitE catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Marielle Petit-Doche (Systerel, France)
- Ralf Pinger (Siemens AG, Germany)
- Jaco van de Pol (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
- Markus Roggenbach (Swansea University, United Kingdom)
- Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
- Marco Roveri (FBK-Irst, Italy)
- Thomas Santen (Microsoft Research Advanced Technology Labs Europe, Germany)
- Bernhard Steffen (University of Dortmund, Germany)
- Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
- Helen Treharne (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)