[TYPES/announce] Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2022: Final Call For Papers

Alberto Griggio griggio at fbk.eu
Fri Apr 22 02:24:00 EDT 2022


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  2022 Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD): Call for Papers
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract Submission:    May 8, 2022
Paper Submission:       May 15, 2022
Author Response:        June 22 - 24, 2022
Author Notification:    July 1, 2022
Camera-Ready Version:   August 16, 2022

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

FMCAD Tutorial Day:     Oct. 18, 2022
Regular Program:        Oct. 19-21, 2022

Part of the FMCAD 2022 program: FMCAD Student Forum


CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION
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FMCAD 2022 is the twenty-second 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.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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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
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Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:

    https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad2022__;!!IBzWLUs!CS1n1HRJ_-5TU86gdTy7866S1UVLdASefeqBikQSDRDtI8xQbQF8V8qNtktt7l1_aZUcTI3qAkFU4A$ 

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://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fmcad.or.at/pdf/copyright.pdf__;!!IBzWLUs!CS1n1HRJ_-5TU86gdTy7866S1UVLdASefeqBikQSDRDtI8xQbQF8V8qNtktt7l1_aZUcTI3Diw5VdQ$ .


STUDENT FORUM
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Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2022 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.


CO-LOCATED EVENTS
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14th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and
Experiments (VSTTE 2022): https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://vstte22.fbk.eu/__;!!IBzWLUs!CS1n1HRJ_-5TU86gdTy7866S1UVLdASefeqBikQSDRDtI8xQbQF8V8qNtktt7l1_aZUcTI1TP47Lkg$ 


FMCAD 2022 COMMITTEES
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PROGRAM CHAIRS:

   Alberto Griggio         Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
   Neha Rungta             Amazon Web Services, Inc., CA, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

   Erika Abraham           RWTH Aachen University
   Jade Alglave            University College London
   Josh Berdine            Facebook
   Per Bjesse              Synopsys Inc.
   Nikolaj Bjorner         Microsoft Research
   Roderick Bloem          Graz University of Technology
   Supratik Chakraborty    IIT Bombay
   Sylvain Conchon         Universite Paris-Sud
   Vijay D'Silva           Google
   Rayna Dimitrova         CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
   Rohit Dureja            IBM
   Grigory Fedukovich      Florida State University
   Arie Gurfinkel          University of Waterloo
   Fei He                  Tsinghua University
   Alexander Ivrii         IBM
   Barbara Jobstmann       EPFL
   Tim King                Google
   Kuldeep Meel            National University of Singapore
   Sergio Mover            École Polytechnique
   Alexander Nadel         Intel
   Aina Niemetz            Stanford University
   Elizabeth Polgreen      University of California Berkeley
   Rahul Purandare         IIT-Delhi
   Andrew Reynolds         University of Iowa
   Marco Roveri            Università di Trento
   Kristin Yvonne Rozier   Iowa State University
   Philipp Ruemmer         Uppsala University
   Cristoph Scholl         University of Freiburg
   Natasha Sharygina       USI Lugano
   Elena Sherman           University of Iowa
   Sharon Shoham           Tel Aviv University
   Anna Slobodova          Intel
   Christoph Sticksel      The Mathworks
   Michael Tautschnig      AWS
   Nestan Tsiskaridze      Stanford University
   Yakir Vizel             Technion
   Georg Weissenbacher     Vienna University of Technology
   Michael Whalen          Amazon Web Services, Inc.

STUDENT FORUM CHAIR:

   Mathias Preiner         Stanford University, CA, USA

SPONSORSHIP AND WEB CHAIR:

   Martin Jonáš            Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

PUBLICATION CHAIR:

   Georg Weissenbacher     TU Wien

FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE:

   Clark Barrett           Stanford University, CA, USA
   Armin Biere             University of Freiburg, Germany
   Anna Slobodova          Intel Corporation, TX, USA
   Georg Weissenbacher     TU Vienna, Austria

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