FMCAD 2019: Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2019 Hyatt Place San Jose, CA, United States, October 22-25, 2019 |
Conference website | https://fmcad.forsyte.at/FMCAD19/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad2019 |
Conference program | https://easychair.org/smart-program/FMCAD2019/ |
Abstract registration deadline | May 17, 2019 |
Submission deadline | May 24, 2019 |
FMCAD 2019 is the nineteenth 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=fmcad19
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.
Important Dates
Abstract Submission: May 10, 2019 May 17, 2019
Paper Submission: May 17, 2019 May 24, 2019
Author Response Period: June 17-21, 2019
Author Notification: July 3, 2019
Camera-Ready Version: Aug 16, 2019
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
FMCAD Tutorial Day: Oct 22, 2019
Regular Program: Oct 23 - 25, 2019
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, blockchains, and IoT devices.
Committees
Program Chairs
- Clark Barrett, Stanford University
- Jin Yang, Intel
Program Committee
- Erika Abraham, Aachen University
- June Andronick, CSIRO|Data61 and UNSW
- Timos Antonopoulos, Yale University
- Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University
- Per Bjesse, Synopsys
- Jasmin Blanchette, Inria Nancy
- Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology
- Gianpiero Cabodi, Politechnico Torino
- Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay
- Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud
- Vijay D'Silva, Google
- Rayna Dimitrova, University of Leicester
- Malay Ganai, Synopsys
- Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
- Liana Hadarean, Amazon
- Joe Hendrix, Galois
- Marijn Heule, University of Texas at Austin
- Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin
- Alexander Ivrii, IBM
- George Karpenkov, Google
- Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University
- Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research
- Rajdeep Mukherjee, Cadence
- Alexander Nadel, Intel Corporation
- Corina Pasareanu, NASA/CMU
- Sandip Ray, University of Florida
- Giles Reger, University of Manchester
- Anna Slobodova, Centaur
- Armando Solar-Lezama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Niklas Sörensson, Mentor Graphics
- Daryl Stewart, ARM
- Christoph Sticksel, MathWorks
- Chao Wang, University of Southern California
- Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology
- Zhenkun Yang, Intel Corporation
- Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago
Organizing committee
- Tutorial Chair: Sandip Ray, University of Florida
- Student Forum Chair: Grigory Fedyukovich, Princeton University
- Webmaster: Tom van Dijk, Johannes Kepler University
- Local Arrangements: Yoni Zohar, Stanford University
- Publication Chair: Florian Lonsing, Stanford University
FMCAD steering committee
- Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University
- Alan Hu, University of British Columbia
- Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin
- Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech
- Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology