[TYPES/announce] AVoCS 2014: 3rd Call for Papers

[Marieke Huisman]

(Apologies for multiple copies)

Approaching Dates:

   Submission (abstract for full paper): 16th June 2014
   Submission (full papers): 23rd June 2014

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Call for Papers

14th Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2014 Workshop

http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014

24-26th September, 2014

University of Twente, Netherlands

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Call for Papers

The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2014 is
to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members
of the international research community on tools and techniques for
the verification of critical systems. The subject is to be interpreted
broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated
verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT
constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining
to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent
dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical,
performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different
techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical
programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow
for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop will be
relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion.

Topics include (but are not limited to)

     Model Checking
     Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving
     SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification
     Abstract Interpretation
     Specification and Refinement
     Requirements Capture and Analysis
     Verification of Software and Hardware
     Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience
     Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems
     Dependable Systems
     Verified System Development
     Industrial Applications

AVoCS 2014 is coorganised and colocated with SPES_XT Summer School
on Model-based design and analysis of cyber-physical systems:

http://spes2020.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/summerschool2014.html

A registration reduction is offered for participants attending
both events.

The workshop will have three invited speakers:

   Laura Kovacs (Chalmers, Sweden) will speak about automated assertion
     generation.
   Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College, U.K.) will speak about 
verification
     of OpenCL kernels.
   Guy Broadfoot (U.K.) will speak about fighting the battle to get 
industry
     to adopt formal based tools.

Important Dates

   Submission (abstract for full paper): 16th June 2014
   Submission (full papers): 23rd June 2014
   Notification (full papers): 30th July 2014

   Submission (research ideas): 7th August 2014
   Notification (research ideas): 14th August 2014

   Submission of final versions: 1st September 2014

   Workshop: 24-26th September 2014 (2.5 days, ends 26th lunchtime)

Submission Details

Full Papers: Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have
been published or be concurrently considered for publication
elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the
basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and
presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Final versions of
the papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages. For
the initial submission you can use any format since the pre-proceedings
will be a technical report. However, we suggest that you use the EASST
template (see below for details) as this will make it easier later on.

Research ideas: AVoCS'14 encourages the submissions of research ideas
in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing
work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme
Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted
abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research
ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages.

Submission Site: The submission site will be available through EasyChair
at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2014

Conference Proceedings & Special Journal Issue

At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a
University of Twente Technical Report; this report will also include
the research ideas.

After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have
about one month in order to revise their papers for publication in the
workshop post-proceedings which will appear in the Electronic
Communications of the EASST Open Access Journal. Research ideas will
not be part of the proceedings in the Open Access Journal.

EASST Submission Format

There is a dedicated AVoCS 2014 EASST template, please go to EASST
template repository at http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/
and look for the AVoCS 2014 entry - this contains the LaTeX and Word
templates that you will need for the conference post-proceedings.

We will invite authors of a selection of the best papers presented at
the workshop to submit extended versions of their work for publication
in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer
Programming.

Program Committee

   John Derrick, University of Sheffield, U.K.
   Mike Dodds, University of York, U.K.
   Wan Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands
   Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, U.K.
   Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
   Anne Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark
   Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland
   Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
   Temesghen Kahsai, NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A.
   Gerald Luettgen, University of Bamberg, Germany
   Radu Mateescu, INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, France
   Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France
   Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, U.K.
   Marco Roveri, FBK-first, Italy
   Thomas Santen, Microsoft Research, Germany
   Bernard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund, Germany
   Jan Strejcek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
   Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
   Tayssir Touili, LIAFA, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, France
   Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, U.K.
   Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair)
   Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France
   Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia

Steering Committee

   Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, U.K.
   Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France
   Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, U.K.

Organization Committee

   Marieke Huisman
   Wojciech Mostowski (publicity chair)
   Jaco van de Pol