[TYPES/announce] Call for Participation: Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS)

[Matt 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.
More details can be found on our website: https://autonomy-and-verification-uol.github.io/events/fmas
Registration is open as follows:
Early – until Sep 10 (AoE)

Late – from Sep 11 until 5 Oct (AoE)

On site – from Oct 6 to Oct 11 (AoE)

When registering, please mention that you plan to attend FMAS as this helps us to secure funding for our invited speakers. Registration is via the FM2019 website: https://bit.ly/2JfdBjO
Programme Information
The workshop will feature invited speakers 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.

Invited Speakers:
Claudio Menghi (https://claudiomenghi.github.io/index.html), University of Luxembourg: Formal Methods Meet Autonomous Systems: a Journey on a Two-Year Research Collaboration with Industry

Kristin Rozier (https://www.aere.iastate.edu/kyrozier/), Iowa State University: Runtime Reasoning that Really Flies

Accepted Papars
A Temporal Logic Semantics for Teleo-Reactive Procedures — Keith Clark, Brijesh Dongol, and Peter Robinson

Verification of Fair Controllers for Urban Traffic Manoeuvres at Intersections — Maike Schwammberger, and Christopher Bischopink

CriSGen: Constraint-based Generation of Critical Scenarios for Autonomous Vehicles — Andreas Nonnengart, Matthias Klusch, and Christian Mueller

Towards a Mission Definition, Verification and Validation Toolchain — Louis Viard, Laurent Ciarletta and Pierre-Etienne Moreau

A Model Checking Agent-Based Architecture for Representing the Rules of the Road on Autonomous Vehicles — Gleifer Alves, Louise Dennis and Michael Fisher

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.
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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