We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email. See below on how to be removed from our mailing list. -------------------------------------------------- NASA Langley/NIA Formal Methods Team invites you to submit an abstract and/or register to attend: The Sixth NASA Langley Formal Methods Workshop LFM 2008 http://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/LFM2008/LFM2008.html April 30 - May 2, 2008 Newport News, Virginia -------------------------------------------------- Important Deadlines: -------------------------------------------------- Abstract Submissions for Contributed Talks: March 1, 2008 Acceptance: March 15, 2008 Registration: April 15, 2008 -------------------------------------------------- Theme of Conference: -------------------------------------------------- Safety critical systems represent an ever-increasing problem domain, challenging verification techniques to catch up. Within the field of aeronautics alone, we find the need for verification of algorithms for separation assurance, air traffic control, auto-pilot, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), adaptive avionics, automated decision authority, and much more. Recent advances in formal methods have made verifying more of these problems realistic. Thus we need to continually re-assess what we can solve now and identify the next barriers to overcome. Only through an exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners from academia to industry can we extend formal methods for the verification of ever more challenging problem domains. The goal of this workshop on formal methods for verification is to examine formal verification techniques, their theory, application areas, current capabilities, and limitations. This format is designed to introduce researchers, graduate students, and partners in industry to those topics that are of fundamental interest and importance, to survey current research, and to discuss major unsolved problems and directions for future research. The meeting will be comprised of invited talks covering the major research areas, and more specialized contributed talks, including student talks. Contributed talks will consist of 30-minute research expositions providing state-of-the-art information on recent developments related to formal methods, and a number of 15-minute talks on current research given by undergraduate and graduate students. -------------------------------------------------- Topics of Interest: -------------------------------------------------- Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: * advances in formal verification techniques * formal models of distributed computing * planning and scheduling * automated air traffic management * fault tolerance * hybrid systems/hybrid automata * embedded systems * safety critical applications * safety cases * accident/safety analysis -------------------------------------------------- Invited Tutorials: -------------------------------------------------- * Gerard J. Holzmann (NASA JPL) - On Limits * John Rushby (SRI) - Formal Methods and Certification * Moshe Y. Vardi (Rice University) - From Philosophical to Industrial Logics -------------------------------------------------- Submissions: -------------------------------------------------- There are two categories of submissions: * Regular Talks. These talks will be 30 minutes in length, including questions. * Student Talks. These talks will be 15 minutes in length, including questions. Both categories of talks will be selected from the abstracts submitted to the LFM 2008 web site. -------------------------------------------------- Location and Cost: -------------------------------------------------- The workshop will take place at the Marriott Hotel, City Center at Oyster Point, Newport News, Virginia, USA. Information on hotel block reservations and travel are located on the LFM 2008 web site. Note that hotel reservations at the special block rate must be made on or before 30 March 2008. There will be no 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. We especially encourage students and other researchers possibly interested in specializing in formal methods to attend as this will be a good opportunity to become more knowledgeable about this area of research. Please visit the official LFM 2008 web site for further information: http://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/LFM2008/LFM2008.html. Cheers, Kristin Yvonne Rozier LFM 2008 General Chair -------------------------------------------------- We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this email. 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