[TYPES/announce] iFM 2017 - Preliminary CFP for the International Conference on integrated Formal Methods
Christoph Seidl
c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de
Tue Oct 4 09:03:24 EDT 2016
13th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods (iFM 2017)
http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
Important dates
Abstract submission: Tuesday March 28
Paper submission: Tuesday April 4
Notification: Friday May 26
Camera-ready copy: Tuesday June 11
Conference: September 20-22
Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.
Objectives and Scope
Applying formal methods may involve the usage of different formalisms
and different analysis techniques to validate a system, either because
individual components are most amenable to one formalism or technique,
because one is interested in different properties of the system, or
simply to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM
conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to
formal modeling and analysis; i.e., the combination of (formal and
semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding both modeling and
analysis. The conference covers all aspects from language design through
verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into
software engineering practice.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- Formal and semi-formal modelling notations
- Combining formal methods
- Integration of formal methods into software engineering practice
- Program verification, model checking, and static analysis
- Runtime analysis, monitoring, and testing
- Program synthesis
- Analysis and synthesis of hybrid, embedded, probabilistic,
distributed, or concurrent systems
- Model learning
- Theorem proving, decision procedures, SAT and SMT solving
Submission Guidelines
iFM 2017 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or
experience reports related to the overall theme of method integration.
We solicit papers in the following categories:
- Research papers describe original scientific research results,
validated by experimental results where applicable. Submissions will be
judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness,
originality, and clarity. Limit: 15 pages.
- Case study papers report on applications of formal methods, preferably
in a real world setting. A case study paper need not introduce novel
techniques or tools, but it must include a rigorous empirical evaluation
and potentially be of interest to practitioners. Limit: 15 pages.
- Regular tool papers present a new tool or novel extensions to an
existing tool. They should provide a short description of the
theoretical foundations, while focusing on the tool's design and
implementation concerns, as well as empirical evaluation of its
practical capabilities. Papers that present extensions to existing tools
should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to
previously published versions of the tool. Authors are strongly
encouraged to make their tools publicly available, preferably on the
web. Limit: 15 pages.
- Tool demonstration papers focus on the usage aspects of tools.
Foundations and empirical evaluation are not required, but the paper
should explain why the tool is relevant for the community, and, in
particular, for practitioners. As with regular tool papers, authors are
strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available, preferably
on the web. Limit: 8 pages.
Page limits include bibliography and any appendices. All submissions
must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication
elsewhere. Each paper will undergo a thorough review process.
Submissions should be made using the iFM 2017 Easychair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2017 (NOT YET OPENED).
Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files;
we suggest to use the LaTeX2e package (the llncs.cls class file,
available in llncs2e.zip and the typeinst.dem available in typeinst.zip
as a template for your contribution). The conference proceedings will be
published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors
must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one
author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the
early registration date, to be indicated by the organizers, and present
the paper.
Workshops
iFM 2017 will be accompanied by a series of workshops. Further
information is available from the conference website
http://ifm2017.di.unito.it/
Conference Location
iFM 2017 is organized by the University of Turin and will take place in
Turin, Italy
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Dipl.-Inf. Christoph Seidl
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter
Institut für Softwaretechnik und Fahrzeuginformatik
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Tel.:(+49) 531 391-2296
E-Mail: c.seidl at tu-braunschweig.de
Skype: christoph.seidl.tud
Besucheradresse:
Raum IZ 417 (TU Braunschweig)
Informatikzentrum
Mühlenpfordtstr. 23
38106 Braunschweig
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