[TYPES/announce] FMCAD 2025: Call for Papers

[Daniela Kaufmann]

CALL FOR PAPERS
25th International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
FMCAD 2025
October 6-10, 2025, SRI Headquarters, Menlo Park, CA, US
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FMCAD 2025 is the twenty-fifth edition in a series of conferences on the 
theory and
applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. The 
conference
encompasses a wide range of topics related to formal aspects of 
computer-aided system
design, including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing 
and 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.
## General Information
Conference Website: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/__;!!IBzWLUs!RavNSm8E3ZheiOEzYWIquLC3r_io8kRXwvkvy6Eqyi_4O-mmPU5-ik4SAOBYTOc_aTN4Ik9QgvOkducRt3kxQl40VqqnPVpeqTT4YC5BKgA7-w$ 
Conference Location: SRI Headquarters, Menlo Park, California, US
Conference Dates: October 6 - October 10, 2025
FMCAD 2025 includes the FMCAD Student Forum 
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/student_forum/__;!!IBzWLUs!RavNSm8E3ZheiOEzYWIquLC3r_io8kRXwvkvy6Eqyi_4O-mmPU5-ik4SAOBYTOc_aTN4Ik9QgvOkducRt3kxQl40VqqnPVpeqTT4YC7wwgPQ4g$ )
and is co-located with VSTTE 2025.
## 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, introduce 
new features,
or substantially improve 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.
*Application of formal methods to the analysis of machine learning 
systems, and
applications of machine learning to enhance formal methods techniques.
## Important Dates
*Abstract Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025
*Paper Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025
*Author Response: June 17 - June 19, 2025
*Author Notification: July 1, 2025
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
### FMCAD/VSTTE Program Outline
*Main VSTTE Day: October 6, 2025
*Joint FMCAD/VSTTE Tutorial Day: October 7, 2025
*Main FMCAD days: October 8 - October 10, 2025
## Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:
https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=fmcad2025__;!!IBzWLUs!RavNSm8E3ZheiOEzYWIquLC3r_io8kRXwvkvy6Eqyi_4O-mmPU5-ik4SAOBYTOc_aTN4Ik9QgvOkducRt3kxQl40VqqnPVpeqTT4YC52xQWyLQ$ 
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; preferably, use the FMCAD 
template for
papers. Papers in both categories can be either 8 pages (long) or 4 
pages (short)
in length excluding 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 all 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.
FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process and each submission will be 
reviewed
by at least four members of the program committee. The review process is 
single-blind.
The review process will incorporate a feedback and rebuttal period 
during which authors
will have the opportunity to formally respond to reviewer comments.
**New - Artifact Evaluation:**FMCAD 2025 introduces optional artifact 
evaluation
to enhance transparency and the usability of research outcomes. Authors 
reporting
experimental results are strongly encouraged to publish their final data 
in a long-term
repository (e.g. zenodo (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://zenodo.org__;!!IBzWLUs!RavNSm8E3ZheiOEzYWIquLC3r_io8kRXwvkvy6Eqyi_4O-mmPU5-ik4SAOBYTOc_aTN4Ik9QgvOkducRt3kxQl40VqqnPVpeqTT4YC70FCTJew$ )). With artifacts serving as 
supplementary
evidence, high-quality artifacts can improve the likelihood of paper 
acceptance.
Artifact evaluation will be integrated into the main review process, 
with one selected
program committee member assessing the quality of the artifact alongside 
the paper.
Accepted artifacts require a DOI and will be clearly identified in the 
published
paper. Details are available on the Artifacts Page 
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/cfa__;!!IBzWLUs!RavNSm8E3ZheiOEzYWIquLC3r_io8kRXwvkvy6Eqyi_4O-mmPU5-ik4SAOBYTOc_aTN4Ik9QgvOkducRt3kxQl40VqqnPVpeqTT4YC7kAUX47A$ ).
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. IEEE CEDA is a technical co-sponsor of FMCAD. There are 
no publication
fees. 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!RavNSm8E3ZheiOEzYWIquLC3r_io8kRXwvkvy6Eqyi_4O-mmPU5-ik4SAOBYTOc_aTN4Ik9QgvOkducRt3kxQl40VqqnPVpeqTT4YC4GyRCfqQ$ .
For each accepted paper, at least one unique author must register for 
the conference.
Moreover, authors of accepted papers ensure that at least one of them 
will attend
the conference and present the work.
## Student Forum
Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2025 will host 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 student forum 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 that has been partly published previously might 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 selected group of FMCAD student 
forum committee
members. Details are available on the Student Forum Page 
(https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/student_forum__;!!IBzWLUs!RavNSm8E3ZheiOEzYWIquLC3r_io8kRXwvkvy6Eqyi_4O-mmPU5-ik4SAOBYTOc_aTN4Ik9QgvOkducRt3kxQl40VqqnPVpeqTT4YC4m3tV9vw$ ).
## FMCAD 2025 Committees
### Program Chair
Ahmed Irfan, SRI, CA, USA
Daniela Kaufmann, TU Wien, Austria
### Local Chair
Stéphane Graham-Lengrand, SRI, CA, USA
### Registration Chair
Jenny McNeill, SRI, CA, USA
### Student Forum Chairs
Tanja Schindler, University of Basel, Switzerland
Lee A. Barnett, AWS, CA, USA
### Sponsorship Chair:
Alex Ozdemir, Stanford University, CA, USA
### Publication Chair
Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien, Austria
### Web Chair
Thomas Hader, TU Wien, Austria
### FMCAD Steering Committee
Clark Barrett, Stanford University, CA, USA
Armin Biere, University of Freiburg, Germany
Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA
Anna Slobodova, ARM, USA
Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien, Austria
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