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New in FormaliSE 2024!
FormaliSE 2024 submission deadline is in **December 2023** (instead of
January as in previous years). This is because ICSE 2024, and hence
FormaliSE which is co-located, will take place around a month earlier
than usual.
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Call for Papers: FormaliSE 2024
International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering
April 14-15, in Lisbon, Portugal, co-located with the International
Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE2024)
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://formalise2024.github.io__;!!IBzWLUs!WwcDi8yU5kqw93iN93an-S5c-vsdbtCUS8XtUkfDv2UIKyONcRuMZMPHnR7v2E0Wp8oZaCoeuE7TgBt1TtEgEnIDOu-X5IE$
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Overview
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Historically, formal methods academic research and practical software
development have had limited mutual interactions — except possibly in
specialized domains such as safety-critical software. In recent times,
the outlook has considerably improved: on the one hand, formal methods
research has delivered more flexible techniques and tools that can
support various aspects of the software development process — from user
requirements elicitation, to design, implementation, verification and
validation, as well as the creation of documentation. On the other
hand, software engineering has developed a growing interest in
rigorous techniques applied at scale.
The FormaliSE conference series promotes work at the intersection of
the formal methods and software engineering communities, providing a
venue to exchange ideas, experiences, techniques, and results. We
believe more collaboration between these two communities can be
mutually beneficial by fostering the creation of formal methods that
are practically useful and by helping develop higher-quality software.
Originally a workshop event, since 2018 FormaliSE has been organized
as a conference co-located with ICSE. The 12th edition of FormaliSE
will also take place as a co-located conference of ICSE 2024.
Topics of Interest
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Area of interest (include but are not limited to):
* requirements formalization and formal specification;
* approaches, methods, and tools for verification and validation;
* formal approaches to safety and security related issues;
* analysis of performance and other non-functional properties based on
formal approaches;
* scalability of formal method applications;
* integration of formal methods within the software development lifecycle
(e.g., change management, continuous integration, regression testing, and
deployment);
* model-based engineering approaches;
* correctness-by-construction approaches for software and systems
engineering;
* application of formal methods to specific domains (such as, autonomous,
cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems);
* formal methods for AI-based systems, and AI applied in formal method
approaches;
* formal methods for certification;
* guidelines to use formal methods in practice;
* usability of formal methods;
Important Dates
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Abstracts due: 1 December 2023
Submissions due: 8 December 2023
Notifications: 12 January 2024
Camera ready copies: 28 January 2024
FormaliSE conference: 14-15 April 2024
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Paper Submission Guidelines
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We accept papers in three categories:
* Full research papers describing original research work and
results. We encourage authors to include validation of their
contributions by means of a case study or experiments. We also
welcome research papers focusing on tools and tool development.
* Case study papers discussing a significant application that
suggests general lessons learned and motivates further research, or
empirically validates theoretical results (such as a technique's
scalability).
* Research ideas papers describing new ideas in preliminary form,
in a way that can stimulate interesting discussions at the
conference, and suggest future work.
All papers submitted to the FormaliSE 2024 conference must be written
in English, must be unpublished original work, and must not be under
review or submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. Submissions
must comply with the FormaliSE's lightweight double-anonymous review
process (see below).
Full research papers and case study papers can take up to 10 pages
including all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding
references. Research ideas papers can take up to 4 pages, plus up to
1 additional page solely for references.
To avoid that authors waste time fitting their papers into the stated
limit at the expense of presentation clarity, paper lengths slightly
exceeding the stated limit will still be considered, provided that the
reviewers find that the presentation is of high quality.
All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the [ACM
Primary Article Template](
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template__;!!IBzWLUs!WwcDi8yU5kqw93iN93an-S5c-vsdbtCUS8XtUkfDv2UIKyONcRuMZMPHnR7v2E0Wp8oZaCoeuE7TgBt1TtEgEnID8EORRL8$ ). In
LaTeX, use options `sigconf`, `review`, and `anonymous`:
`\documentclass[sigconf,review,anonymous]{acmart}`. These options add
line numbers (which helps reviewers refer to specific lines in a
submission), and omit author information (as required by the
double-anonymous format).
To submit a paper to FormaliSE 2024 use the following HotCRP link:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://formalise24.hotcrp.com/__;!!IBzWLUs!WwcDi8yU5kqw93iN93an-S5c-vsdbtCUS8XtUkfDv2UIKyONcRuMZMPHnR7v2E0Wp8oZaCoeuE7TgBt1TtEgEnIDC8I1sRc$
Lightweight Double-Anonymous Review Process for Papers
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As in recent editions, FormaliSE 2024 will use a lightweight
double-anonymous process. Authors must omit their names and
institutions from the title page, cite their own work in the third
person, and omit acknowledgments that may reveal their identity or
affiliation. The purpose is reducing chances of reviewer bias
influenced by the authors’ identities. The double-anonymous process
is, however, lightweight, which means that it should not pose a heavy
burden for authors, nor should make a paper's presentation weaker
or more difficult to review. Also, advertising the paper as part of
your usual research activities (for example, on your personal
web-page, in a pre-print archive, by email, in talks or discussions
with colleagues) is permitted without penalties.
Paper Selection
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Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee
members that will judge its overall quality in terms of its soundness,
significance, novelty, verifiability, and presentation clarity.
FormaliSE 2024 will adopt a lightweight response process: if all the
reviewers of a given paper agree that a clarification from the authors
regarding a specific question could move the paper from "borderline"
to "accept", the chairs will relay the reviewers' questions to the
authors by email, and then share their reply with the reviewers in
HotCRP. The goal of lightweight responses is reducing the chance of
random decisions on borderline papers. Hence, they will only be used
for a minority of submissions; most papers will not require such an
author response. Nevertheless, we would ask the corresponding authors
of all submissions to make sure that they are available to answer
questions by email upon request.
Artifact Evaluation
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Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an
atmosphere of trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and
reward reproducibility, FormaliSE 2023 continues its Artifact
Evaluation (AE) procedure. An artifact is any additional material
(software, data sets, machine-checkable proofs, etc.) that
substantiates the claims made in the paper and ideally makes them
fully reproducible.
Submission of an artifact is optional but encouraged for all papers
where it can support the results presented in the paper. Artifact
review is single-anonymous (the paper corresponding to an artifact
must still follow the double-anonymous submissions requirements) and
will be conducted concurrently with the paper reviewing process.
Artifacts will be handled by a separate Artifact Evaluation Committee,
and the Artifact Evaluation process will be set up such that the
anonymization of the corresponding papers will not be
compromised. Accepted papers with a successfully evaluated artefact
will be awarded the EAPLS
badges (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/__;!!IBzWLUs!WwcDi8yU5kqw93iN93an-S5c-vsdbtCUS8XtUkfDv2UIKyONcRuMZMPHnR7v2E0Wp8oZaCoeuE7TgBt1TtEgEnIDRcum1XM$ ) that apply (among
"Functional", "Reusable", and "Available"). Awarded badges are to be
added to the camera-ready version of the paper.
Artifacts will be assessed with respect to their consistency with the
results presented in the paper, their completeness, their
documentation, and their ease of use. The Artifact Evaluation will
include an initial check for technical issues; authors of artifacts
may be contacted by email within the first two weeks after artifact
submission to help resolve any technical problems that prevent the
evaluation of an artifact if necessary.
The results of an artifact evaluation will not be available to the
reviewers of the corresponding paper; hence, they will not affect the
paper's acceptance decision. However, reviewers will know whether a
paper has submitted any artifacts; this piece of information may be
taken into account to decide whether the paper should be
accepted. Thus, if there are justifiable reasons why a paper's
artifacts cannot be submitted, they should be pointed out in the paper
so that the reviewers can appreciate them and adjust their
expectations accordingly.
Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will
be described in a dedicated page in FormaliSE 2024's
website (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://formalise2024.github.io/__;!!IBzWLUs!WwcDi8yU5kqw93iN93an-S5c-vsdbtCUS8XtUkfDv2UIKyONcRuMZMPHnR7v2E0Wp8oZaCoeuE7TgBt1TtEgEnIDmKNUl48$ ).
Publication
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All accepted papers are published as part of the ICSE 2024 Proceedings
in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for
the conference and present the paper at the conference — physically
or, if the circumstances do not allow so, virtually. Failure to
register an author will result in a paper being removed from the
proceedings.
Organization
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# General Chairs
* Stefania Gnesi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione (Italy)
* Nico Plat, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
# Program Chairs
* Carlo A. Furia, USI Lugano (Switzerland)
* Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
# Artifact Evaluation Chairs
* Tom van Dijk, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
* Raúl Pardo, IT University of Copenhagen (Denmark)
# Social Media Chairs
* Abhishek Tiwari, University of Passau (Germany)
* Paulo Santos, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
# Program Committee
* Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden)
* Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz (Austria)
* Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Japan)
* Cyrille Artho, KTH (Sweden)
* Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology (Korea)
* Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg (Luxembourg)
* Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe (France)
* Giovanna Broccia, ISTI - CNR (Italy)
* Radu Calinescu, University of York (UK)
* Pablo Castro, National University of Rio Cuarto (AR)
* Ana Cavalcanti, University of York (UK)
* Javier Cámara Moreno, Universidad de Málaga (Spain)
* João F. Ferreira, University of Lisbon (Portugal)
* Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London/AWS (UK/USA)
* Amit Goel, Amazon Web Services (USA)
* Paula Herber, University of Münster (Germany)
* Marieke Huisman, University of Twente (The Netherlands)
* Marie-Christine Jakobs, LMU Munich (Germany)
* Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (Norway)
* Eunsuk Kang, Carnegie Mellon University (USA)
* Oleksandr Kolchyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics (Ukraine)
* Anastasia Mavridou, KBR/NASA Ames Research Center (USA)
* Larissa Meinicke, University of Queensland (Australia)
* Chris Poskitt, Singapore Management University (Singapore)
* Virgile Prevosto, CEA List (France)
* Matteo Rossi, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
* Ina Schaefer, KIT (Germany)
* Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University (Sweden)
* Allison Sullivan, University of Texas, Arlington (USA)
* Heike Wehrheim, University of Oldenburg (Germany)
* Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland (Australia)
# Artifact Evaluation Committee
TBD
Contact Information
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We can be reached at oc at formalise.org.
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