[TYPES/announce] [fm-announcements] Call for Papers: NFM 2014

Thu Oct 17 09:27:55 EDT 2013

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      The Sixth NASA Formal Methods Symposium

         http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/

               29 April - 1 May 2014
   NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Theme of the Symposium:
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The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and 
safety-critical systems require advanced techniques that address their 
specification, verification, validation, and certification requirements.

The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and 
practitioners from academia, industry, and government, with the goals of 
identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving assurance in 
mission- and safety-critical systems. Within NASA such systems include 
autonomous robots, separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, Next 
Generation Air Transportation (NextGen), and autonomous rendezvous and 
docking for spacecraft. Moreover, emerging paradigms such as 
property-based design, code generation, and safety cases are bringing 
with them new challenges and opportunities. The focus of the symposium 
will be on formal techniques, their theory, current capabilities, and 
limitations, as well as their application to aerospace, robotics, and 
other safety-critical systems in all design life-cycle stages. We 
encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches marrying formal 
verification techniques with advances in safety-critical system 
development, such as requirements generation, analysis of aerospace 
operational concepts, and formal methods integrated in early design 
stages carrying throughout system development.

Topics of Interest:
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     * Model checking
     * Theorem proving
     * Static analysis
     * Model-based development
     * Runtime monitoring
     * Formal approaches to fault tolerance
     * Applications of formal methods to aerospace systems
     * Formal analysis of cyber-physical systems, including hybrid and 
embedded systems
     * Formal methods in systems engineering, modeling, requirements, 
and specifications
     * Requirements generation, specification debugging, formal 
validation of specifications
     * Use of formal methods in safety cases
     * Use of formal methods in human-machine interaction analysis
     * Formal methods for parallel hardware implementations
     * Use of formal methods in automated software engineering and testing
     * Correct-by-design, design for verification, and property-based 
design techniques
     * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods; e.g. 
abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, parallel and 
distributed techniques
     * Application of formal methods to emerging technologies

Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission: 14 Nov 2013
Paper Submission:    21 Nov 2013
Paper Notifications: 14 Jan 2014
Camera-ready Papers: 11 Feb 2014
Symposium: 29 April - 1 May 2014

Location & Cost:
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The symposium will take place at the Gilruth Center, NASA Johnson Space 
Center, Houston, Texas, USA, 29 April to 1 May 2013.

There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested 
individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen 
to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees 
must register.

Submission Details:
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There are two categories of submissions:

    1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete 
results (15 pages)
    2. Short papers describing tools, experience reports, or 
descriptions of work in progress with preliminary results (6 pages)

All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not 
been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully 
reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. Papers will appear in a 
volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and must 
use LNCS style formatting. Papers should be submitted in PDF format.

Keynote Speakers:
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* Larry Paulson, University of Cambridge, UK
* Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA
* Special Guest Talk: "NASA Future Challenges in Formal Methods"
by Bill McAllister, Chief, Safety and Mission Assurance, International 
Space Station Safety Panels, Avionics and Software Branch

Panel Feature: "Future Directions of Specifications for Formal Methods"
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Specifications are required for all applications of formal methods yet 
extracting specifications for real-life safety critical systems often 
proves to be a huge bottleneck or even an insurmountable hurdle to the 
application of formal methods in practice. This is the state for 
safety-critical systems today and as these systems grow more complex, 
more pervasive, and more powerful in the future, there is not a clear 
path even for maintaining the bleak status quo. Therefore, we propose 
highlighting this issue in the home of an important critical system, the 
Mission Control Center of NASA's most famous critical systems, and 
asking our panelists where we can go from here.

Organizers:
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Mike Hinchey (General Chair)
Julia Badger (PC Chair)
Kristin Yvonne Rozier (PC Chair)

Program Committee:
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Domagoj Babic, Google Research, USA
Calin Belta, Boston University, USA
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA
Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile Limited, UK
Guillaume Brat, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Gianfranco Ciardo, Iowa State University, USA
Frederic Dadeau, FEMTO-ST/INRIA, France
Ewen Denney, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
James Disbrow, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, USA
Steven Drager, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France
Cindy Eisner, IBM Research-Haifa, Israel
Éric Féron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Shalini Ghosh, SRI, USA
Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering 
Institute, USA
John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA
Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University, USA
Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel Corporation, USA
David R. Lester, University of Manchester, UK
Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA
Steven Miller, Rockwell Collins, USA
Sheena Judson Miller, Barrios Technology/NASA Johnson Space Center, USA
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA
Lee Pike, Galois, Inc., USA
André Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Neha Rungta, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Johann Schumann, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Sandeep K. Shukla, Virginia Tech, USA
Radu Siminiceanu
Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, Italy
Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Arnaud Venet, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center, USA
Nok Wongpiromsarn, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, 
Singapore
Karen Yorav, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel

Steering Committee:
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Ewen Denney, SGT/NASA Ames
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley
Klaus Havelund, NASA/JPL
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/JPL
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley
Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames
Suzette Person, NASA Langley
Kristin Y. Rozier, NASA Ames
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