CfP: 25th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2018)
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25th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software (SPIN 2018)
Malaga, Spain | June 20-22, 2018 | http://spin2018.uma.es/
The 25th edition of the SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software, but does not exclude analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software
- Formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts
- Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract
- Model checking
- Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT
- Verifying compilers
- Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques
- Static analysis and abstract interpretation
- Combination of verification techniques
- Modular and compositional verification techniques
- Verification of timed and probabilistic systems
- Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques
- Combination of static and dynamic analyses
- Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material via formal analysis
- Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results
- Engineering and implementation of software verification and analysis tools
- Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification and analysis tools
- Formal methods education and training
- Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the symposium
Important Dates
- Submission deadline February 18, 2018
- Notification of acceptance April 13, 2018
- Camera-Ready Paper April 23, 2018
- Symposium June 20 - 22, 2018
Submision Guidelines
The proceedings of SPIN 2018 will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format: LNCS Information for Authors
With the exception of survey and history papers, the papers should contain original work which has not been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.
We are soliciting two categories of papers:
- Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (16 pages);
- Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods (6 pages).
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2018 submission website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin20180
All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work.
At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium and present the paper.
Best Paper awards will be given and announced at the conference.
Special Issue
A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).
Invited Tutorial
- Irina Mariuca Asavoae & Markus Roggenbach (Swansea University)
Invited Speakers
- Klaus Havelund (NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
- Radu Iosif (Verimag)
- Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University)
Program Chairs
- Maria del Mar Gallardo, University of Malaga, Spain (gallardo@lcc.uma.es)
- Pedro Merino, University of Malaga, Spain (pedro@lcc.uma.es)
Program Committee
- Maria Alpuente, Technical University of Valencia, Spain
- Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
- Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland, USA
- Stefan Edelkamp, King's College London, UK
- Hakan Erdogmus, Carnegie Mellon, USA
- Stefania Gnesi, CNR, Italy
- Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA
- Klaus Havelund, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
- Gerard Holzmann, Nimble Research, USA
- Radu Iosif, Verimag, France
- Frederic Lang, INRIA, France
- Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
- Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany
- Alberto Lluch Lafuente, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
- Irina Mariuca Asavoae, Swansea University, UK
- Alice Miller, University of Glasgow, UK
- Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames, USA
- Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel
- Charles Pecheur, Universite catholique de Louvain, Belgium
- Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, USA
- Antti Valmari, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
- Jaco Van de Pol, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
- Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
- Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Steering Committee
- Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands (chair)
- Susanne Graf, Verimag, France
- Gerard Holzmann, Nimble Research, USA
- Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany
- Neha Rungta, Amazon Web Services, USA
- Jaco Van de Pol, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands
- Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
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