[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers: Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS)

[[UoL]Matthew Luckcuck]

## Workshop: Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS)
#### **A satellite workshop of Formal Methods 2019**

This one day workshop will bring together researchers working on a range of
techniques for formal verification of autonomous systems, to present recent
work in the area, discuss key difficulties, and stimulate collaboration
between the robotics and formal methods communities. This workshop will
include invited speakers, contributed papers, experience reports, and a
discussion panel.

## Scope

Autonomous -- and Robotic -- Systems present unique challenges for formal
methods. They are embodied entities that can interact with the real world
and make autonomous decisions. Amongst others, they can be viewed as
safety-critical, cyber-physical, hybrid, and real-time systems. Key issues
for formal methods applied to autonomous systems include capturing how the
system will deal with a dynamic external environment and verification of
the system's decision making capabilities -- including planning, safety,
ethical, and reconfiguration choices. Some autonomous systems require
certification before deployment, others require public trust for wide
adoption; both of these scenarios are being tackled by formal methods.

The goals of this workshop are to bring together leading researchers in
this area to present recent and ongoing work, including experience reports
and case studies as well as identify future directions for this emerging
application of formal methods. This workshop is concerned with the use of
formal methods to specify, model, or verify autonomous or robotic systems,
in whole or in part. Submissions may focus on case studies that identify
the challenges for formal methods in this area, or experience reports that
provide guidelines for tackling these challenges. Work using integrated
formal methods, or describing the future directions of this field, are
particularly welcome.

## Programme Information

The workshop will feature invited speakers (to be confirmed) and
presentations of accepted papers. The workshop will also feature a
discussion panel for a structured, whole-group conversation for scoping the
future directions of formal methods for autonomous systems.

## Submission Information

There are two categories of submission:

* Short papers -- 6 pages
* Long papers -- 15 pages

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Experience reports/case studies on applying formal methods to autonomous
and/or robotic systems
* Novel formal methods that can be applied to autonomous and/or robotic
systems
* The modification of existing formal methods to suit autonomous and/or
robotic systems
* Future directions for formal methods for autonomous and/or robotic systems

Submission will be via [easychair](
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmas2019), in LNCS format.

Each submission will receive at least three, single-blind reviews. If a
paper is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to
present their work. Revised selected papers will be published in the
upcoming FM 2019 Workshops LNCS volume.

## Important Dates

* Submission: 30th June 2019
* Notification: 31st July 2019
* Final Version due: 1st September 2019
* Workshop: 11th of October 2019

## Chairs

* [Marie Farrell](https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~marie), University of
Liverpool, UK
* [Michael Fisher](https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael), University of
Liverpool, UK
* [Matt Luckcuck](https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mattlck), University of
Liverpool, UK
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