[TYPES/announce] Call for Papers - FMCAD 2021

Wed Mar 17 13:15:22 EDT 2021

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CALL FOR PAPERS - FMCAD 2021
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International Conference on
Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)
Yale University, 2021
https://fmcad.org/FMCAD21/ <https://fmcad.org/FMCAD21/>

        IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission:
May 7, 2021
Paper Submission:
May 14, 2021
Author Response:
June 23-25, 2021
Author Notification:
July 2, 2021
Camera-Ready Version:
August 16, 2021
Early registration:
September 15, 2021

All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

FMCAD Tutorial Day:
Oct. 19, 2021
Regular Program:
Oct. 20-22, 2021

        Part of the FMCAD 2021 program

FMCAD Student Forum

        Co-located with FMCAD

VSTTE 2021

        CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION

FMCAD 2021 is the twenty-first 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 
published by TU Wien Academic Press under a Creative Commons license 
(the authors retain the copyright) and distributed through the IEEE 
XPlore digital library. 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, block chains, and IoT devices.

        SUBMISSIONS

Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/my/conference/?conf=fmcad21 
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=fmcad21>

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.

Authors of accepted contributions will be required to sign the FMCAD 
copyright transfer form found here: 
https://fmcad.or.at/pdf/copyright.pdf 
<https://fmcad.or.at/pdf/copyright.pdf>.

        STUDENT FORUM

Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2021 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 2021 COMMITTEES

*PROGRAM CHAIRS*:

Ruzica Piskac
Yale University
Michael Whalen
Amazon, Inc and the University of Minnesota

*PC*:

Erika Abraham
RWTH Aachen University
Jade Alglave
University College London
Pranav Ashar
Real Intent
Per Bjesse
Synopsys Inc.
Roderick Bloem
Graz University of Technology
Ivana Cerna
Masaryk University
Supratik Chakraborty
IIT Bombay
Sylvain Conchon
Universite Paris-Sud
Leonardo de Moura
Microsoft
Rayna Dimitrova
CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Grigory Fedyukovich
Florida State University
Arie Gurfinkel
University of Waterloo
Liana Hadarean
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Ziyad Hanna
Cadence Design Systems
Fei He
Tsinghua University
Marijn Heule
Carnegie Mellon University
Warren Hunt
The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Ivrii
IBM
Dejan Jovanović
SRI International
Alan Jović
FER Zagreb
Laura Kovacs        Vienna University of Technology
Ton Chanh Le
Stevens Institute of Technology
Rebekah Leslie-Hurd
Intel
Kuldeep Meel
National University of Singapore
Elizabeth Polgreen
University of California, Berkeley
Andrew Reynolds
University of Iowa
Cristoph Scholl
University of Freiburg
Natasha Sharygina
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
Anna Slobodova
Centaur Technology
Christoph Sticksel
The Mathworks
Murali Talupur
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
Jean-Baptiste Tristram
Boston College
Yakir Vizel
Technion
Thomas Wahl
Northeastern University
Georg Weissenbacher
Vienna University of Technology
Thomas Wies
New York University
Valentin Wüstholz
ConsenSys
Lenore Zuck
University of Illinois in Chicago

*STUDENT FORUM CHAIR*:

Mark Santolucito
Barnard College

*PUBLICATION CHAIR*:

Georg Weissenbacher
TU Wien

*SPONSORSHIP CHAIR*:

Daniel Schoepe
Amazon Web Services, Inc.

*FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE*:

Clark Barrett
Stanford University, CA, USA
Armin Biere
Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria
Georg Weissenbacher
TU Vienna, Austria
Anna Slobodova
Centaur Technology, TX, USA
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