CFP
FMCAD 2018: Formal Methods in Computer Aided Design 2018 AT&T Center UT Austin Austin, TX, United States, October 30-November 2, 2018 |
Conference website | http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD18/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad18 |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/FMCAD2018/ |
Abstract registration deadline | May 18, 2018 |
Submission deadline | May 25, 2018 |
FMCAD 2018 is the eighteenth 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 distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the copyright. 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).
Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad18
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.
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. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and short papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in
either category. Authors will be required to select the 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.
size. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and short papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in
either category. Authors will be required to select the 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.
The review process is "single blind". Thus, authors are not required to hide their identities.
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.
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.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: May 18, 2018
Paper Submission: May 25, 2018
Author Notification: July 18, 2018
Camera-Ready Version: Aug 19, 2018
Author Notification: July 18, 2018
Camera-Ready Version: Aug 19, 2018
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
FMCAD Tutorial Day: Oct 30, 2018
Regular Program: Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2018
Part of the FMCAD 2018 program:
FMCAD Student Forum
Co-located with FMCAD:
15th International Workshop on the ACL2 Theorem Prover
and Its Applications (ACL2-2018)
November 5-6, 2018, Austin, Texas, USA
Web page
and Its Applications (ACL2-2018)
November 5-6, 2018, Austin, Texas, USA
Web page
List of Topics
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.
Committees
Program Committee
Jade Alglave University College London
June Andronick CSIRO|Data61 and UNSW
Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University Linz
Per Bjesse Synopsys Inc.
Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology
Gianpiero Cabodi Politechnico Torino
Supratik Chakraborty IIT Bombay
Sylvain Conchon Universite Paris-Sud
Bruno Dutertre SRI international
Alberto Griggio University of Trento
Liana Hadarean Synopsys
Fei He Tsinghua University
Joe Hendrix Galois Inc.
Warren Hunt The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Ivrii IBM
Dejan Jovanovic SRI International
Temesghen Kahsai Amazon
George Karpenkov Apple
June Andronick CSIRO|Data61 and UNSW
Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University Linz
Per Bjesse Synopsys Inc.
Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology
Gianpiero Cabodi Politechnico Torino
Supratik Chakraborty IIT Bombay
Sylvain Conchon Universite Paris-Sud
Bruno Dutertre SRI international
Alberto Griggio University of Trento
Liana Hadarean Synopsys
Fei He Tsinghua University
Joe Hendrix Galois Inc.
Warren Hunt The University of Texas at Austin
Alexander Ivrii IBM
Dejan Jovanovic SRI International
Temesghen Kahsai Amazon
George Karpenkov Apple
Tim King Google
Igor Konnov Vienna University of Technology
Ken McMillan Microsoft
Alexander Nadel Intel
Giles Reger The University of Manchester
Leonid Ryzhyk VMware Research
Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Linz
Natasha Sharygina Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
Sharon Shoham Tel Aviv University
Anna Slobodova Centaur
Mathias Soeken Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Igor Konnov Vienna University of Technology
Ken McMillan Microsoft
Alexander Nadel Intel
Giles Reger The University of Manchester
Leonid Ryzhyk VMware Research
Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Linz
Natasha Sharygina Università della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland)
Sharon Shoham Tel Aviv University
Anna Slobodova Centaur
Mathias Soeken Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Daryl Stewart ARM
Christoph Sticksel The MathWorks
Niklas Sörensson Chalmer University of Technology
Murali Talupur FormalSim
Yakir Vizel Technion
Georg Weissenbacher Vienna University of Technology
Jaco van de Pol University of Twente
Christoph Sticksel The MathWorks
Niklas Sörensson Chalmer University of Technology
Murali Talupur FormalSim
Yakir Vizel Technion
Georg Weissenbacher Vienna University of Technology
Jaco van de Pol University of Twente
Organizing committee
STUDENT FORUM CHAIR
Dejan Ivanovic, SRI International
WEBMASTER
Tom van Dijk, Johannes Kepler University
PUBLICATION CHAIR
Jade Alglave, University College London and Microsoft
PUBLICITY CHAIR
Yakir Vizel, Technion
FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria
Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada
Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech
Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada
Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech
George Weissenbacher, TU Vienna, Austria
CONFERENCE CHAIRS
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft
Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo
Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo
Venue
The conference will be held in the AT&T conference center on the campus of University of Texas Austin.