Call for Papers
International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) Mountain View, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2016
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract Submission: May 02, 2016 Extended to May 09
Paper Submission: May 09, 2016 Extended to May 16
Author Response Period: June 17-21, 2016
Author Notification: July 09, 2016
Camera-Ready Version: Aug 09, 2016
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
FMCAD Tutorial Day: October 3, 2016
FMCAD Regular Program: October 4-6, 2016
CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION
FMCAD 2016 is the sixteenth 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).
TOPICS OF INTEREST
FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods technology and its application 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 and cyberphysical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, 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 in areas beyond computer systems, including formal methods describing processes studied in other areas of science, engineering, and humanities.
– (New) Application of formal methods to verifying safety, connectivity and security properties of networks and distributed systems.
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair, at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad2016
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 etc, 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. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be required to select the 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 adequate access to their data, at submission time, so that results can be independently verified.
FMCAD 2016 COMMITTEES
Program Committee:
Pranav Ashar Real Intent
Domagoj Babic Google
Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University Linz
Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology
Ahmed Bouajjani University of Paris
Gianpiero Cabodi Politecnico di Torino
Supratik Chakraborty IIT-Mumbai
Leonardo de Moura Microsoft Research
Michael Emmi IMDEA Software Institute
Malay Ganai Synopsys
Arie Gurfinkel SEI, Carnegie Mellon University
Ziyad Hanna Cadence Design System
Fei He Tsinghua University
Keijo Heljanko Aalto University
Warren Hunt University of Texas Austin
Himanshu Jain Synopsys
Gerwin Klein NICTA and UNSW
Daniel Kroening University of Oxford
Shuvendu Lahiri Microsoft Research
Rebekah Leslie-Hurd Intel
Panagiotis Manolios Northeastern University
Kenneth McMillan Microsoft Research
John O’Leary Intel
Lee Pike Galois, Inc.
Ruzica Piskac Yale University (co-chair)
Ahmed Rezine Linköping University
Sean Safarpour Synopsys
Divjyot Sethi CISCO
Natasha Sharygina University of Lugano
Sharon Shoham Tel Aviv
Muralidhar Talupur FormalSim Inc (co-chair)
Michael Tautschnig Queen Mary University of London
Shobha Vasudevan University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Tomas Vojnar Brno University of Technology
Chao Wang Virginia Tech
Eran Yahav Technion
Florian Zuleger Technische Universität Wien
Program chairs:
Ruzica Piskac, Yale University
Muralidhar Talupur, FormalSim Inc
Helmut Veith, Technische Universität Wien
Publication Chair:
Florian Zuleger, Technische Universität Wien
Local Arrangements Chair & Webmaster:
Sean Safarpour, Synopsys Divjyot Sethi, CISCO Jens Katelaan, TU Wien
FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech