[FM-India] Call for Papers: NFM 2014

[Madhavan Mukund]

 From: Kristin Yvonne Rozier <Kristin.Y.Rozier at nasa.gov>
 To: undisclosed-recipients:;
 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2013 08:53:12 -0700
 Subject: [fm-announcements] Call for Papers: NFM 2014

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      The Sixth NASA Formal Methods Symposium

         http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/

               29 April - 1 May 2014
   NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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 Theme of the Symposium:
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 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:
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     * 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:
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 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:
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 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:
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 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:
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 * Larry Paulson, University of Cambridge, UK
 * Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University, USA
 * Special Guest Talk: "NASA Future Challenges in Formal Methods"


 Organizers:
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 Mike Hinchey (General Chair)
 Julia Badger (PC Chair)
 Kristin Yvonne Rozier (PC Chair)


 Steering Committee:
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 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. Rozier, NASA Ames


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