FMCAD 2016: 1st CALL FOR PAPERS

CALL FOR PAPERS

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

Mountain View, CA, USA | October 3-6, 2016 | http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD16

IMPORTANT DATES

• Abstract Submission: May 02, 2016
• Paper Submission: May 09, 2016
• Author Response Period: June 17-21, 2016
• Author Notification: July 09, 2016
• Camera-Ready Version: Aug 09, 2016

All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anytime on Earth)

• FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 3, 2016
• FMCAD Regular Program: October 4-6, 2016

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.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair, at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad16

Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods etc, along with experimental impact validation where applicable.

Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes.

Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix.

Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide adequate access to their data, at submission time, so that results can be independently verified.

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