************************************************** The Sixth NASA Formal Methods Symposium http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/ 29 April - 1 May 2014 NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA ************************************************** Theme of the Symposium: ----------------------- The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and safety-critical systems require advanced techniques that address their specification, verification, validation, and certification requirements. 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 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 property-based design, 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 in all design life-cycle stages. We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches marrying formal verification techniques with advances in safety-critical system development, such as requirements generation, analysis of aerospace operational concepts, and formal methods integrated in early design stages carrying throughout system development. Topics of Interest: ------------------- * Model checking * Theorem proving * Static analysis * Model-based development * Runtime monitoring * Formal approaches to fault tolerance * Applications of formal methods to aerospace systems * Formal analysis of cyber-physical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems * Formal methods in systems engineering, modeling, requirements, and specifications * Requirements generation, specification debugging, formal validation of specifications * Use of formal methods in safety cases * Use of formal methods in human-machine interaction analysis * Formal methods for parallel hardware implementations * Use of formal methods in automated software engineering and testing * Correct-by-design, design for verification, and property-based design techniques * Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods; e.g. abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, parallel and distributed techniques * Application of formal methods to emerging technologies Important Dates: ---------------- Abstract Submission: 14 Nov 2013 Paper Submission: 21 Nov 2013 Paper Notifications: 14 Jan 2014 Camera-ready Papers: 11 Feb 2014 Symposium: 29 April - 1 May 2014 Location & Cost: ---------------- The symposium will take place at the Gilruth Center, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA, 29 April to 1 May 2013. There will be no registration fee for 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. Submission Details: ------------------- There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages) 2. 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 Programme Committee. Papers will appear in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and must use LNCS style formatting. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. Keynote Speakers: ----------------- * Larry Paulson, University of Cambridge, UK * Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA * Special Guest Talk: "NASA Future Challenges in Formal Methods" by Bill McAllister, Chief, Safety and Mission Assurance, International Space Station Safety Panels, Avionics and Software Branch Panel Feature: "Future Directions of Specifications for Formal Methods" ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Specifications are required for all applications of formal methods yet extracting specifications for real-life safety critical systems often proves to be a huge bottleneck or even an insurmountable hurdle to the application of formal methods in practice. This is the state for safety-critical systems today and as these systems grow more complex, more pervasive, and more powerful in the future, there is not a clear path even for maintaining the bleak status quo. Therefore, we propose highlighting this issue in the home of an important critical system, the Mission Control Center of NASA's most famous critical systems, and asking our panelists where we can go from here. Organizers: ----------- Mike Hinchey (General Chair) Julia Badger (PC Chair) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (PC Chair) Program Committee: ------------------ Domagoj Babic, Google Research, USA Calin Belta, Boston University, USA Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Jonathan P. Bowen, Museophile Limited, UK Guillaume Brat, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Gianfranco Ciardo, Iowa State University, USA Frederic Dadeau, FEMTO-ST/INRIA, France Ewen Denney, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA James Disbrow, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, USA Steven Drager, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France Cindy Eisner, IBM Research-Haifa, Israel Éric Féron, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Shalini Ghosh, SRI, USA Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Arie Gurfinkel, Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, USA John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory, USA Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Hadas Kress-Gazit, Cornell University, USA Joe Leslie-Hurd, Intel Corporation, USA David R. Lester, University of Manchester, UK Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA Steven Miller, Rockwell Collins, USA Sheena Judson Miller, Barrios Technology/NASA Johnson Space Center, USA Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Lee Pike, Galois, Inc., USA André Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Neha Rungta, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Johann Schumann, SGT/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden Sandeep K. Shukla, Virginia Tech, USA Radu Siminiceanu Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Stefano Tonetta, FBK-irst, Italy Helmut Veith, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Arnaud Venet, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota Software Engineering Center, USA Nok Wongpiromsarn, Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, Singapore Karen Yorav, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel Steering Committee: ------------------- Ewen Denney, SGT/NASA Ames Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Klaus Havelund, NASA/JPL Gerard Holzmann, NASA/JPL Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames Suzette Person, NASA Langley Kristin Y. 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