FMCAD 2016

International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)

FMCAD 2016 is the sixteenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification.

FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing.

FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD).

TOPICS OF INTEREST

FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods technology and its application to computer-aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction
and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the
bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of
deductive methods and decision procedures.

-- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling,
specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of
languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation
and transformation, correct-by-construction methods.

-- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and
non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software,
including timing and power modeling, verification of computing
systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and
verification for embedded and cyberphysical systems, hardware-
software co-design and verification, transaction-level verification.

-- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to
industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification
enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the
automation of formal methods.

-- Application of formal methods in areas beyond computer systems,
including formal methods describing processes studied in other areas
of science, engineering, and humanities.

-- (New) Application of formal methods to verifying safety,
connectivity and security properties of networks and distributed
systems.

FMCAD 2016 COMMITTEES

Program Committee:

• Pranav Ashar, Real Intent
• Domagoj Babic, Google
• Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz
• Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology
• Ahmed Bouajjani, University of Paris
• Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino
• Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research
• Michael Emmi, IMDEA Software Institute
• Malay Ganai, Synopsys
• Arie Gurfinkel, SEI, Carnegie Mellon University
• Ziyad Hanna, Cadence Design System
• Fei He, Tsinghua University
• Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University
• Warren Hunt, University of Texas Austin
• Himanshu Jain, Synopsys
• Gerwin Klein, NICTA and UNSW
• Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research
• Rebekah Leslie-Hurd, Intel
• Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University
• Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research
• John O'Leary, Intel
• Lee Pike, Galois, Inc.
• Ahmed Rezine, Linkoeping University
• Sean Sarapour, Synopsys
• Divjyot Sethi, CISCO
• Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano
• Sharon Shoham, Tel Aviv
• Muralidhar Talupur, FormalSim Inc (co-chair)
• Michael Tautschnig, Queen Mary University of London
• Shobha Vasudevan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• Helmut Veith, Technische Universitaet Wien (co-chair)
• Tomas Vojnar, Brno University of Technology
• Chao Wang, Virginia Tech
• Eran Yahav, Technion
• Florian Zuleger, Technische Universitaet Wien

Program chairs:

• Muralidhar Talupur, FormalSim Inc
• Helmut Veith, Technische Universitaet Wien

Publication Chair:

Florian Zuleger, Technische Universitaet Wien

Local Arrangements Chair & Webmaster:

• Sean Safarpour, Synopsys
• Divjyot Sethi, CISCO
• Jens Katelaan, TU Wien

FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE

Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech