[TYPES/announce] [Deadline Extension] FMCAD 2021 Call for Papers

[Michael Whalen]

[One Week Deadline Extension.  New dates are FIRM]

Apologies for multiple postings.

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   The Twenty First Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design Conference
    https://fmcad.org/FMCAD21/.
    October 19-22, 2021
    Yale University, Connecticut, USA
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The conference will be held in an in-person/virtual hybrid format at Yale
University, USA,
possibly transitioning to fully virtual depending on the COVID-19 situation.

IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission: May 14, 2021 (May 7, 2021)
Paper Submission: May 21, 2021.  (May 14, 2021)
Author Response: June 30- July 2, 2021 (June 23-25, 2021)
Author Notification: July 9, 2021 (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=fmcad21Two 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.


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.


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 Jovic, University of 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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