[TYPES/announce] FMCAD 2019 Second CFP

[barrett]

CALL FOR PAPERS

International Conference on
Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)
Hyatt Place San Jose Downtown, San Jose, California, USA, Oct 22 - 25, 2019 

http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD19

IMPORTANT DATES

 
Abstract Submission: May 10, 2019
Paper Submission: May 17, 2019
Author Response Period: June 17-21, 2019
Author Notification: July 3, 2019
Camera-Ready Version: Aug 16, 2019
 
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
 
FMCAD Tutorial Day: Oct 22, 2019
Regular Program: Oct 23 - 25, 2019
 
Part of the FMCAD 2019 program
- FMCAD Student Forum
- Hardware Model Checking Competition
 
CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION
 
FMCAD 2019 is the nineteenth 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 and their applications 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 systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other
  safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification,
  and 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 to verifying safety, connectivity and
  security properties of networks, distributed systems, smart contracts,
  blockchains, and IoT devices.
 
SUBMISSIONS
 
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad2019
 
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, 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. Papers in both
categories can be either 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (short) in length not
including references. Short papers that describe emerging results, practical
experiences, or original ideas that can be described succinctly are
encouraged. Authors will be required to select an 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 the reviewers access to their data at submission time,
so that results can be independently verified. The review process is single
blind.
 
STUDENT FORUM
 
Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2019 is hosting a Student
Forum that provides a platform for graduate students at any career stage to
introduce their research to the wider Formal Methods community, and solicit
feedback.
 
Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research ideas or
ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the
scope of FMCAD. Work, part of which has been previously published, will be
considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly
described in such cases. All submissions will be reviewed by a select group
of FMCAD program committee members.
 
FMCAD 2019 COMMITTEES
 
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
 
                Clark Barrett, Stanford University
                Jin Yang, Intel Corporation
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
 
                Erika Abraham, Aachen University
                June Andronick, CSIRO|Data61 and UNSW
                Timos Antonopoulos, Yale University
                Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University
                Per Bjesse, Synopsys
                Jasmin Blanchette, Inria Nancy
                Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology
                Gianpiero Cabodi, Politechnico Torino
                Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay
                Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud
                Vijay D'Silva, Google
                Rayna Dimitrova, University of Leicester
                Malay Ganai, Synopsys
                Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
                Liana Hadarean, Amazon
                Joe Hendrix, Galois
                Marijn Heule, University of Texas at Austin
                Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin
                Alexander Ivrii, IBM
                George Karpenkov, Google
                Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University
                Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research
                Rajdeep Mukherjee, Cadence
                Alexander Nadel, Intel Corporation
                Corina Pasareanu, NASA/CMU
                Sandip Ray, University of Florida
                Giles Reger, University of Manchester
                Anna Slobodova, Centaur
                Armando Solar-Lezama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
                Niklas Sörensson, Mentor Graphics
                Daryl Stewart, ARM
                Christoph Sticksel, MathWorks
                Chao Wang, University of Southern California
                Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology
                Zhenkun Yang, Intel Corporation
                Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago
 
TUTORIAL CHAIR:
 
                Sandip Ray, University of Florida
 
STUDENT FORUM CHAIRS:
 
                Grigory Fedyukovich, Princeton University
 
WEBMASTER:
 
                Tom van Dijk, Johannes Kepler University
 
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT:
 
                Yoni Zohar, Stanford University
 
PUBLICATION CHAIR:
 
                Florian Lonsing, Stanford University
 
FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE:
 
                Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University
                Alan Hu, University of British Columbia
                Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin
                Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech
                Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology