NFM 2021: 13th NASA Formal Methods Symposium Norfolk, VA, United States, May 24-28, 2021 |
Conference website | https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2021 |
Abstract registration deadline | December 7, 2020 |
Submission deadline | December 14, 2020 |
The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems.
The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities, and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.
The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the NASA Formal Methods (NFM)Research Group, comprised of researchers spanning six NASA centers. NFM2021 is being organized by the NASA Langley Formal Methods Team.
Submission Guidelines
There are two categories of submissions:
- Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (maximum 15 pages);
- Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with preliminary results (maximum 6 pages).
The submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be self-contained, as appendices will not be included in the published proceedings. In addition to appendices, authors are encouraged to make available any other supplementary material supporting the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental data, as the availability and reproducibility of these artifacts may be considered by reviewers in scoring. All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee in a single-blind reviewing format.
Papers will appear in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must use LNCS style formatting (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2021.
Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/11334).
List of Topics
We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of formal methods:
Advances in formal methods:
- Formal verification, model checking, and static analysis techniques
- Theorem proving: advances in interactive and automated theorem proving (SAT, SMT, etc.)
- Program and specification synthesis, code transformation, and generation
- Run-time verification
- Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods
- Test case generation
- Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques
- Requirements generation, specification, and validation
Integration of formal methods techniques:
- Use of machine learning techniques in formal methods
- Integration of formal methods into software engineering practices
- Integration of diverse formal methods techniques
- Combination of formal methods with simulation and analysis techniques
Formal methods in practice:
- Experience report of application of formal methods in industry
- Use of formal methods in education
- Verification of machine learning techniques
- Applications of formal methods in the development of: autonomous systems, safety-critical systems, concurrent and distributed systems, cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems, fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems, human-machine interaction analysis
Committees
Program Committee
- Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
- Julia Badger, NASA, USA
- Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA
- Jasmin Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Sylvie Boldo, INRIA, France
- Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
- Misty Davies, NASA, USA
- Gilles Dowek, INRIA / ENS Paris-Saclay, France
- Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France
- Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France
- Gabriel Ebner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
- Marco Feliu, National Institute of Aerospace, USA
- Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France
- Pierre-Loic Garoche, ENAC, France
- Alwyn Goodloe, NASA, USA
- John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA
- Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
- Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Brian Jalaian, ARL / Virginia Tech, USA
- Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA
- Michael Lowry, NASA, USA
- Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA
- Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace, USA
- Anastasia Mavridou, SGT Inc. / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
- Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
- Yannick Moy, AdaCore / INRIA, France
- Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA
- Laura Panizo, University of Malaga, Spain
- Corina Pasareanu, CMU / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
- Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah, USA
- Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia
- Nicolas Rosner, Amazon Web Services, USA
- Kristin-Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA
- Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
- Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA
- Johann Schumann, SGT Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA
- Tanner Slagel, NASA, USA
- Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands
- Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA
- Caterina Urban, INRIA, France
- Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France
Organizing committee
- Cesar Muñoz, NASA, USA (General Co-Chair)
- Ivan Perez, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (General Co-Chair)
- Aaron Dutle, NASA, USA (PC Co-Chair)
- Mariano Moscato, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair)
- Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair)
Publication
Papers will appear in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must use LNCSstyle formatting (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines).
Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site:https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2021.
Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue inSpringer's Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (https://www.springer.com/journal/11334).
Contact
Email: nfm2021 [at] easychair [dot] org
Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/nfm2021/