Apologies for multiple postings ================================================================== 5th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) 2013 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, USA May 14-16, 2013 http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2013/ ================================================================== Theme of the Conference: The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia, industry, and government, with the goals of identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving assurance in mission- and safety-critical systems. Within NASA, for example, such systems include autonomous robots, separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen), and autonomous rendezvous and docking for spacecraft. Moreover, emerging paradigms such as code generation and safety cases are bringing with them new challenges and opportunities. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques, their theory, current capabilities, and limitations, as well as their application to aerospace, robotics, and other safety-critical systems. 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 Topics of Interest: * Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, including but not restricted to abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and distributed techniques * Use of formal methods in automated software engineering and testing Model-based development * Formal program synthesis * Runtime monitoring and verification * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Formal analysis of cyber-physical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering, modeling, requirements and specifications * Applications of formal methods to aerospace systems * Use of formal methods in safety cases * Use of formal methods in human-machine interaction analysis * Formal methods for multi-core, GPU-based implementations * Application of formal methods to emerging technologies, e.g., mobile applications, autonomous systems, web-based application Important Dates Dec 7, 2012 Abstract Submission Deadline (firm) Dec 16, 2012 Paper Submission Deadline (firm) Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2013 Rebuttal phase Feb 15, 2013 Acceptance Notification March 15, 2013 Camera-Ready Version Submission May 13 - 16, 2013 NFM Symposium Submissions: There are two categories of submissions: * Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages). * Short papers describing tools, experience reports, or descriptions of work in progress with preliminary results (6 pages) All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the program committee. Papers must use Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style and be put in PDF format, as the papers will appear as a volume in Lecture Notes of Computer Science. Submissions are now open through easychair. easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2013 Registration: NFM 2013 will be held at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA on May 14 to 16, 2013. There will not be a registration fee charged to participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register. Details coming soon on Registration. Chairs: Guillaume Brat, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Neha Rungta, SGT Inc/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Arnaud Venet, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Program Committee: Julia Badger, NASA, USA Thomas Ball, Microsoft Research, USA Ricky Butler, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Patrice Chalin, Kansas State University, USA Darren Cofer, Rockwell Collins, USA Radhia Cousot, CNRS/École Normale Supérieure, France Leonardo De Moura, Microsoft Research, USA Ewen Denney, SGT Inc./NASA Ames, USA Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Jim Disbrow, NASA, USA Gilles Dowek, INRIA, France Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA Eric Feron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Kathleen Fisher, Tufts University, USA Pierre-Loic Garoche, ONERA, France Eric Goubault, CEA/Saclay, France Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel Klaus Havelund, JPL, USA Gerard Holzmann, JPL, USA JoeHurd, Galois, Inc., USA Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego, USA Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University, USA Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK Tiziana Margaria, Univ. Potsdam, Germany Célia Martinie, University Paul Sabatier, France Eric Mercer, Brigham Young University, USA Paul Miner, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Natasha Neogi, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Ganesh Pai, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Corina Pasareanu CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Charles Pecheur, UC Louvain, Belgium Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Franco Raimondi, Middlesex University, UK John Regehr, University of Utah, USA Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames, USA Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado, USA Stephen F. Siegel, University of Delaware, USA Radu Siminiceanu, National Institute of Aerospace, USA Henny Sipma, Kestrel Technology, France Sarah Thompson, SGT Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA Oksana Tkachuk, SGT Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Virginie Wiels, ONERA/DTIM, France Reinhard Wilhelm Saarland University, Germany --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request@lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner@lists.nasa.gov [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]