FM 2018

22nd International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2018)

FM 2018 is the latest in a series of symposia organized by Formal Methods Europe, an independent association that encourages the use of, and research on, formal methods for the engineering of computer-based systems and software. The symposia have been notably successful in bringing together researchers and industrial users around a programme of original papers on research and industrial experience, workshops, tutorials, reports on tools, projects, and ongoing doctoral work. FM 2018 will take place in Oxford, UK, 15-17 July 2018 as part of FLoC 2018, the Federated Logic Conferences.

FM 2018 will highlight the development and application of formal methods in a wide range of domains including software and integrated computer-based systems. In the latter field, cyber-physical systems, systems-of-systems, human-computer interaction, manufacturing, sustainability, power, transport, cities, healthcare, and biology are of particular interest. We also welcome papers on experiences of formal methods in industry, and on the design and validation of formal methods tools.


The broad topics of interest for FM 2018 include, but are not limited to:

• Interdisciplinary formal methods: Techniques, tools and experiences demonstrating formal methods in interdisciplinary frameworks.
• Formal methods in practice: Industrial applications of formal methods, experience with formal methods in industry, tool usage reports, experiments with challenge problems. Authors are encouraged to explain how formal methods overcame problems, led to improved designs, or provided new insights.
• Tools for formal methods: Advances in automated verification, model-checking, and testing with formal methods, tools integration, environments for formal methods, and experimental validation of tools. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate empirically that the new tool or environment advances the state of the art.
• Role of formal methods in software and systems engineering: Development processes with formal methods, usage guidelines for formal methods, and method integration. Authors are encouraged to evaluate process innovations with respect to qualitative or quantitative improvements. Empirical studies and evaluations are also solicited.
• Theoretical foundations: All aspects of theory related to specification, verification, refinement, and static and dynamic analysis. Authors are encouraged to explain how their results contribute to the solution of practical problems with methods or tools.

Keynote Speakers

• Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
• Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
• Kim Guldstrand Larsen, Aalborg University & UP4ALL, Denmark

Best Paper Award

During the conference, the Programme Committee Chairs will present an award to the authors of the submission selected as the FM 2018 Best Paper.

Publication

Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings to appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of one or more journals.
Location

FM2018, the 22nd International Symposium on Formal Methods, will take place in Oxford, UK, 15-17 July 2018 as part of FLoC 2018, the Federated Logic Conferences.

General Chair

Erik P. de Vink, Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Programme Chairs

Bill W. Roscoe, University of Oxford, GB Jan Peleska, University of Bremen, DE

Committees

Programme Chairs

Bill W. Roscoe, University of Oxford, GB
Jan Peleska, University of Bremen, DE

Program Committee

Bernhard K. Airchernig, TU Graz, AT
Joerg Brauer, Verified Systems International GmbH, DE
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, GB
Frank De Boer, CWI, NL
John S. Fitzgerald, Newcastle University, GB
Martin Fraenzle, Universitaet Oldenburg, DE
Vijay Ganesh, University of Waterloo, CA
Diego Garbervetsky, Universidad de Buenos Aires, AR
Dimitria Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames, US
Thomas Gibson-Robinson, University of Oxford, GB
Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, IT
Anne E. Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark, DK
Ian J. Hayes, University of Queensland, AU
Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, US
Jozef Hooman, TNO-ESI and Radboud University Nijmegen, NL
Laura Humphrey, Air Force Research Laboratory, US
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, JP
Einar Broch Johnson, University of Oslo, NO
Cliff Jones, Newcastle University, GB
Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, DE
Gerwin Klein, NICTA and University of New South Wales, AU
Laura Kovacs, Chalmers University of Technology, SE
Peter Gorm Larsen, Aarhus University, DK
Yves Ledru, Universite Grenoble Alpes, FR
Rustan Leino, Amazon Web Services, US
Elizabeth Leonard, Naval Research Laboratory, US
Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, DE
Michael Leuschel, University of Dusseldorf, DE
Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, CN
Tiziana Margaria, University of Limerick and Lero, IE
Mieke Massink, CNR-ISTI, IT
Annabelle McIver, Macquarie University, AU
Dominique Mery, LORIA and Universite de Lorraine, FR
Mohammad Reza Mousavi, Halmstad University, SE
Peter Muller, ETH Zurich, CH
Colin O'Halloran, D-RisQ Software Systems, GB
Jose Oliveira, Universidade do Minho, PT
Olaf Owe, Universitity of Oslo, NO
Sam Owre, SRI International, US
Alexandre Petrenko, CRIM, CA
Anna Philippou, University of Cyprus, CY
Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, IT
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US
Augusto Sampaio, Federal University of Pernambuco, BR
Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers University of Gothenburg, SE
Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, CH
Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg, AT
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, SG
Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, IT
Farn Wang, National Tainwan University, TW
Heike Wehrheim, University of Paderborn, DE
Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, US
Jim Woodcock, University of York, GB
Husnu Yenigun, Sabanci University, TR
Fatiha Zaidi, Universite Paris-Sud, FR
Gianluigi Zavattaro, Universita di Bologna, IT

Workshop Chairs

Maurice ter Beek, CNR/ISTI, IT
Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, UK

I-Day Chairs

Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Jan Peleska, University of Bremen, DE
Ralf Pinger, Siemens, DE

Doctoral Symposium Chairs

Eerke Boiten, De Montfort University, UK
Fatiha Zaidi, Universite Paris-Sud XI, FR

Organizing Committee

Erik de Vink (general chair), Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
Mahmoud Talebi (website), Eindhoven University of Technology, NL

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the programme chairs.