CfP: MEMOCODE-2017 - IMPENDING DEADLINE

Call for Papers

15th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and Models for System Design (MEMOCODE)

September 29 - October 2, 2017, Vienna, Austria | http://memocode.irisa.fr/2017

IMPORTANT DATES

• Submission deadline (abstract): May 12, 2017
• Submission deadline (paper): May 19, 2017
• Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2017
• Final version of papers: July 28, 2017

MEMOCODE's objective is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in formal methods and models for system design and development to exchange ideas, research results, and lessons learned. System design covers the development of hardware, firmware, middleware, and application software for systems ranging from single embedded devices to highly networked CPS and systems in the IoT. In particular, MEMOCODE 2017 seeks research contributions on formal foundations, engineering methods, tools, and experimental case studies. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

Modeling Languages, Methods and Tools:

• Programming languages and models; software and system modeling languages;
• architecture and high-level hardware description languages; timing models;
• model and program synthesis methods; model transformation methods

Formal Methods and Tools:

• Correct-by-construction methods; contract-based design and verification;
• static, dynamic, and type theoretic analysis; verification; validation;
• probabilistic model checking; test generation; refinement-based and
• compositional approaches to design and verification

Models and Methods for Developing Critical Systems:

• Fault-tolerant systems; security-critical and safety-critical systems;
• cyber-physical systems; hybrid systems; autonomous systems;
• self-adapting systems

Quantitative/Qualitative Reasoning:

• Power/performance/cost/latency estimation methods;
• system models for quantitative design space exploration

Formal Methods/Models in Practice:

• Design case studies; empirical case studies

SUBMISSIONS

MEMOCODE 2017 calls for three kinds of submissions: regular papers, work in progress papers, and tool presentations. All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the following IEEE Computer Society guidelines.

Submission of papers is handled via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memocode2017

• Regular papers must be no longer than 10 pages and must describe original work that does not overlap with another publication or a submission under review or accepted for publication by any other conference or journal. Reviewers will check regular papers for the novelty of the proposed solution and the proofs given for the claims made. One of the authors has to present the paper at the conference.
• Work-in-progress (WIP) papers must be no longer than 4 pages and must describe ongoing work. Reviewers will judge the novelty of the idea, but do not yet expect proofs for the envisioned results. WIP papers will be presented by one of the authors during a poster presentation at the conference.
• Tool papers must be no longer than 8 pages and should describe an existing and publicly available tool that implements relevant methods. The methods might have been published before, but the tool should not have been described in a tool paper previously. In addition to reviewing the paper, reviewers will assess the tool itself using inputs and a user's manual

provided by the authors on the tool's web page. One of the authors has to
present the paper at the conference.

For questions regarding technical submissions, feel free to contact one of the
Program Committee co-chairs:

• * Patricia Derler (patricia.derler@ni.com)
• * Klaus Schneider (klaus.schneider@cs.uni-kl.de).

All accepted papers (regular paper, WIP papers, and tool papers) will be
published as IEEE conference proceedings in IEEE Xplore. For all three paper
categories, publication is contingent on one author registering for and
presenting the paper at the conference. Selected papers will be invited for
publication in a special issue of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.

PROGRAM CHAIRS

• Patricia Derler, National Instruments Corporation
• Klaus Schneider, University of Kaiserslautern

GENERAL CHAIR

• Jean-Pierre Talpin, IRISA

PUBLICATION CHAIR

• Yi Deng, Virginia Tech

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Paul Attie, American University of Beirut
• Marco Bekooij, University of Twente
• Jani Boutellier, Tampere University of Technology
• Jens Brandt, Hochschule Niederrhein
• Sudipta Chattopadhyay, Singapore University of Technology and Design
• Silviu Craciunas, TTTech Computertechnik AG
• Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, Toyota Technical Center
• Stephen Edwards, Columbia University
• Mamoun Filali-Amine, IRIT
• Martin Fraenzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universitaet Oldenburg
• Franco Fummi, University of Verona
• Abdoulaye Gamatie, CNRS
• Marc Geilen, Eindhoven University of Technology
• Leonard Gerard, ENS
• Gregor Goessler, INRIA
• Tuba Kahveci, University of Florida
• Rick Kuhn, Natl Institute of Standards & Technology
• Luciano Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino
• Axel Legay, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes
• Elizabeth Leonard, Naval Research Laboratory
• Thanhvu Nguyen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• Pierluigi Nuzzo, University of Southern California
• John O'Leary, Intel Corporation
• Roberto Passerone, University of Trento
• Maxime Pelcat, IETR/INSA
• Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University
• Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University
• Murali Rangarajan, The Boeing Company
• Sanjai Rayadurgam, University of Minnesota
• Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan
• Partha Roop, University of Auckland
• Neda Saeedloei, University of Texas at Dallas
• Aviral Shrivastava, Arizona State University
• Sandeep Shukla, IIT Kanpur
• Marjan Sirjani, Reykjavik University
• Juergen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
• Stavros Tripakis, University of California, Berkeley
• Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan, MIT
• Reinhard von Hanxleden, Christian-Albrechts-Universitaet zu Kiel
• Qi Zhu, UC Riverside
• Damian Zufferey, MPI Software Systems