FORMALISE 2018

Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering (FORMALISE 2018)

co-located with ICSE 2018

The software industry has a long-standing and well-earned reputation for failing to deliver on its promises and it is clear that still nowadays, even considering the current technologies, the success of software projects is often not guaranteed. Many of the approaches used for large complex problems have not been able to assure the correct behavior of the delivered software, despite the efforts of the (often very qualified and skilled) software engineers involved. This is where formal methods have a significant opportunity.
In fact, formal methods are intended to provide the means for greater precision in both thinking and documenting the preliminary stage of the software creation process. When done well, this can aid all aspects of software creation: user requirement formulation, implementation, verification/testing, and the creation of documentation.

However, after decades of research, and despite significant advancement, formal methods are still not widely used in industrial software development. We believe that software engineering might help in making formal methods more easily applicable in the development of software applications, integrable into development processes, and in making more evident the return on investment (ROI) in using them.

The main goal of the conference is to foster integration between the formal methods and the software engineering communities with the purpose to examine the link between the two more carefully than is currently the case.

After 5 years as a successful satellite workshop of ICSE, this year FormaliSE will be a 1-day conference co-located with ICSE 2018. FormaliSE 2018 will take place on June 2, 2018, in Gothenburg, Sweden.

AREAS OF INTEREST include but are not limited to:

• Verification and validation of cyber-physical systems, IoT systems, and autonomous systems;
• Integration of FMs with the rest of the software development lifecycle;
• Use of formal methods in Continuous Integration & Deployment contexts;
• Rigorous software engineering approaches and their tool support;
• Model-based approaches, including model-driven development;
• Scalability of FM applications;
• Prescriptive/objective guidance in the use of FMs;
• FMs in a certification context;
• "Lightweight" or usable FMs;
• Formal approaches to safety and security-related issues;
• Requirements formalization, formal specification, and verification;
• Performance analysis based on formal approaches;
• Case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches;
• Success stories and/or ability of FMs to handle real-world problems;
• Experimental validation;
• Application experiences.

General Chairs

• Stefania Gnesi (ISTI-CNR, Italy),
• Nico Plat (Thanos, The Netherlands)

Program Chairs

• Paola Spoletini, (Kennesaw State University, USA)
• Patrizio Pelliccione, (University of Gothenburg | Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

We can be reached at oc@formalise.org.

The program committee consists of:

• Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
• Ana Cavalcanti (University of York, UK)
• Andreas Bollin (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
• Antonella Santone (University of Sannio, Italy)
• Carlo Alberto Furia (Chalmers, Sweden)
• Christel Baier (Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany)
• Claudio Menghi (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
• Dalal Alrajeh (Imperial College, UK)
• Domenico Bianculli (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
• Einar Broch Johnsen (Oslo University, Norway)
• Elena Troubitsyna (Abo University, Finland)
• Ewen Denney (SGT/NASA Ames, USA)
• Fatiha Zaidi (LRI/CNRS, France)
• Gerardo Schneider (Chalmers, Sweden)
• Hernan Melgratti (University of Buenos Aires)
• Jana Tumova (KTH, Sweden)
• Juergen Dingel (Queen's University, Canada)
• Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore)
• Keijiro Araki (Kyushu University, Japan)
• Kirsten Winter (University of Queensland, Australia)
• Liliana Pasquale (Lero, Ireland)
• Marie-Christine Jakobs (Paderborn University, Germany)
• Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Matteo Rossi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
• Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota, USA)
• Nancy Day (University of Waterloo, Canada)
• Peter Gorm Larsen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
• Rahul Purandare (IIIT Delhi, India)
• Rosemary Monahan (Maynooth University, Ireland)
• Simon Bliudze (INRIA Lille, France)
• Virginie Wiels (Onera, France)