[TYPES/announce] NFM 2019 Third Call For Papers- 11th Annual NASA Formal Methods Symposium

Sat Dec 1 22:39:06 EST 2018

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      The Eleventh NASA Formal Methods Symposium

  https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/pages/nfm2019.html

                    7 - 9 May 2019
         Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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Theme of the Symposium:
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The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and 
safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require 
advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, 
verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA 
Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration 
between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and 
industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide 
solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems.

New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for 
uncrewed deep space human habitats, caretaker robotics, Unmanned Aerial 
Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), and the need for 
system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new 
challenges for system specification, development, and verification 
approaches. The focus of these symposiums are on formal techniques and 
other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current 
capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to 
aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems 
during all stages of the software life-cycle.

The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the 
NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Steering Committee, comprised of researchers 
spanning several NASA centers. NFM 2019 
(https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/pages/nfm2019.html) is being 
co-organized by Rice University and NASA- Johnson Space Center in 
Houston, TX.

Topics of Interest:
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We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together 
formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic 
reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum 
computing among others.
     * Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, 
and static analysis
     * Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving
     * Use of formal methods in software and system testing
     * Run-time verification
     * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, such as 
abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as 
parallel and/or distributed techniques
     * Code generation from formally verified models
     * Safety cases and system safety
     * Formal approaches to fault tolerance
     * Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods 
techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded 
systems
     * Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development
     * Correct-by-design controller synthesis
     * Formal assurance methods to handle adaptive systems

Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission:  7 Dec 2018
Paper Submission:    14 Dec 2018
Paper Notifications: 22 Feb 2019
Camera-ready Papers: 22 Mar 2019
Symposium:          7-9 May 2019

Location & Cost:
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The symposium will take place in the McMurtry Auditorium, Rice 
University, Houston, Texas, USA, May 7--9, 2019.

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 + references)
    2. Two categories of short papers: (6 pages + references)
    (a) Tool Papers describing novel, publicly-available tools
    (b) Case Studies detailing complete applications of formal methods 
to real systems with publicly-available artifacts, or substantial 
work-in-progress describing results from designing a new technique for a 
new application, with appropriate available artifacts

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.

Artifacts enabling reproducibility of the paper's major contributions 
are strongly encouraged and will be considered in PC evaluations. 
Appendices are allowed but will be read at the discretion of the PC. 
Websites with additional artifacts, e.g., for reproducibility or 
additional correctness proofs, are encouraged. Papers should be 
submitted in PDF format here: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2019.

Keynote Speakers:
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* Virginie Wiels, ONERA, France
* Richard Murray, CalTech, USA
* NASA Panel: Challenges for Future Exploration
-- Kimberly Hambuchen, Space Technology Principle Technologist for Robotics
-- Emily Nelson, Deputy Chief, Flight Director Branch
-- Joe Caram, Gateway Systems Engineering and Integration Lead
-- Bill Othon, Gateway Verification and Validation Lead

Organizers:
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Moshe Y. Vardi (General Chair)
Julia Badger (PC Chair)
Kristin Yvonne Rozier (PC Chair)

Programme Committee:
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Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Dirk Beyer, LMU Munich, Germany
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft, USA
Sylvie Boldo, INRIA, France
Jonathan Bowen, London South Bank University, UK
Gianfranco Ciardo, Iowa State University, US
Darren Cofer, Rockwell Collins, USA
Frederic Dadeau, FEMTO-ST, France
Ewen Denney, NASA, US
Gilles Dowek, INRIA and ENS Paris-Saclay, France
Steven Drager, AFRL, US
Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France
Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France
Aaron Dutle, NASA, US
Marco Gario, Siemens Corporate Technology, USA
Alwyn Goodloe, NASA, US
Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada
John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA
Klaus Havelund, JPL/NASA, USA
Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Shafagh Jafer, Embry-Riddle University, USA
Xiaoqing Jin, Toyota Technical Center, USA
Rajeev Joshi, JPL/NASA, USA
Laura Kovacs, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel, US
Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA
Cristian Mattarei, Stanford University, US
Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, US
Cesar Munoz, NASA, US
Anthony Narkawicz, NASA, US
Necmiye Ozay, University of Michigan, USA
Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA, USA
Lee Pike, USA
Johann Schumann, SGT, USA
Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
Bernhard Steffen, University of Dortmund, Germany
Stefano Tonetta, FBK-IRST, Italy
Ufuk Topcu, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Christoph Torens, German Aerospace Center, Germany
Michael Watson, NASA, USA
Huan Xu, University of Maryland, US

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