[TYPES/announce] FMCAD 2016: 1st CALL FOR PAPERS

[Igor Konnov]

FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on
Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)
Mountain View, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2016

http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD16


IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission:            May 02, 2016
Paper Submission:               May 09, 2016
Author Response Period:         June 17-21, 2016
Author Notification:            July 09, 2016
Camera-Ready Version:           Aug 09, 2016

All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anytime on Earth)

FMCAD Tutorial Day:            October 3, 2016
FMCAD Regular Program:         October 4-6, 2016


CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION

FMCAD 2016 is the sixteenth in a series of conferences on the theory and
applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. 
FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry 
for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, 
theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing 
systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design 
including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing.

FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are 
distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, 
published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the 
authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At least 
one of the authors is required to register for the conference and 
present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD 
submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the 
journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD).


TOPICS OF INTEREST

FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on 
advances in all aspects of formal methods technology and its application 
to computer-aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not 
limited to):

-- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction
    and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the
    bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of
    deductive methods and decision procedures.

-- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling,
    specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of
    languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation
    and transformation, correct-by-construction methods.

-- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and
    non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software,
    including timing and power modeling, verification of computing
    systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and
    verification for embedded and cyberphysical systems, hardware-
    software co-design and verification, transaction-level verification.

-- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to
    industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification
    enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the
    automation of formal methods.

-- Application of formal methods in areas beyond computer systems,
    including formal methods describing processes studied in other areas
    of science, engineering, and humanities.

-- (New) Application of formal methods to verifying safety,
    connectivity and security properties of networks and distributed
    systems.


SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair, at

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad16

Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case 
Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational 
ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing 
methods etc, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. 
Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, 
implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a 
practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its 
impact on design processes.

Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions
format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers 
can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although 
there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors 
will be required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract 
submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which 
will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should 
be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the 
paper without reading the appendix.

Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has 
not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for 
publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently 
submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are 
reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide adequate access to 
their data, at submission time, so that results can be independently 
verified.


FMCAD 2016 COMMITTEES

Program Committee:

Pranav Ashar                 Real Intent
Domagoj Babic                Google
Armin Biere                  Johannes Kepler University Linz
Roderick Bloem               Graz University of Technology
Ahmed Bouajjani              University of Paris
Gianpiero Cabodi             Politecnico di Torino
Leonardo de Moura            Microsoft Research
Michael Emmi                 IMDEA Software Institute
Malay Ganai                  Synopsys
Arie Gurfinkel               SEI, Carnegie Mellon University
Ziyad Hanna                  Cadence Design System
Fei He                       Tsinghua University
Keijo Heljanko               Aalto University
Warren Hunt                  University of Texas Austin
Himanshu Jain                Synopsys
Gerwin Klein                 NICTA and UNSW
Shuvendu Lahiri              Microsoft Research
Rebekah Leslie-Hurd          Intel
Panagiotis Manolios          Northeastern University
Kenneth McMillan             Microsoft Research
John O'Leary                 Intel
Lee Pike                     Galois, Inc.
Ahmed Rezine                 Linkoeping University
Sean Sarapour                Synopsys
Divjyot Sethi                CISCO
Natasha Sharygina            University of Lugano
Sharon Shoham                Tel Aviv
Muralidhar Talupur           FormalSim Inc (co-chair)
Michael Tautschnig           Queen Mary University of London
Shobha Vasudevan             University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Helmut Veith                 Technische Universitaet Wien (co-chair)
Tomas Vojnar                 Brno University of Technology
Chao Wang                    Virginia Tech
Eran Yahav                   Technion
Florian Zuleger              Technische Universitaet Wien


Program chairs:

Muralidhar Talupur, FormalSim Inc
Helmut Veith, Technische Universitaet Wien


Publication Chair:

Florian Zuleger, Technische Universitaet Wien


Local Arrangements Chair & Webmaster:

Sean Safarpour, Synopsys
Divjyot Sethi, CISCO
Jens Katelaan, TU Wien


FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE

Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria
Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada
Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech