[FM-India] Call for Papers: ACM-IEEE MEMOCODE 2016

[Madhavan Mukund]

The 14th ACM-IEEE International Conference on Formal Methods and
Models for Co-Design (MEMOCODE 2016) will be organized at IIT Kanpur
between November 18, 2016 till November 20, 2016. This is an
international conference which started in 2003 in France, and has been
alternating between locations in the United States, and in Europe for
the first 13 years. This is the first time, this conference will be
held outside the US, and Europe. It has been quite a work to get the
steering committee to agree on locating at IIT Kanpur.  Even though
the size of the conference is not very large, it is a rather well
known and respected conference where hardware and software
practitioners, and researchers meet to present their work on
application of formal methods in system design.  You can find more
information on the conference at http://memocode.irisa.fr/ 2016/.

There are several unique attractions of this conference since its
inception.  Usually 3 key note speeches high light the conference
theme by inviting keynote speakers from software design, hardware
design, and formal methods. It also has a design contest which invites
participants from around the world to design in hardware/software or
in mixed hardware/software some embedded system, and awards are given
to top three based on various criteria.

The 14th edition of this conference to be held at IIT Kanpur is a
great opportunity for our faculty, post doctoral fellows, and
researcher students to interact with world class researchers, attend
the various talks, and also network with researchers for further
collaboration.

 
                           CALL FOR PAPERS

  14th ACM/IEEE International Conf. on Formal Methods and Models for
                            System Design
                           (MEMOCODE 2016)
 Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India, November 18-20, 2016
                    http://memocode.irisa.fr/2016/

IMPORTANT DATES

    Abstract submission deadline:   July 22, 2016
    Paper submission deadline:      July 29, 2016
    Notification of acceptance:     September 9, 2016
    Final version of papers:        October 7, 2016
    Conference:                     November 18-20, 2016

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

    * Robert de Simone, INRIA
    * Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research
    * Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University

TOPICS OF INTEREST

Over the last decade, the boundaries between computer system
components, such as hardware, software, firmware, middleware, and
applications, have blurred.  This evolution in system design and
development practices led in 2014 to a change in the title and scope
of the MEMOCODE conference from its original focus on
hardware/software co-design to its new focus on formal methods and
models for developing computer systems and their
components. MEMOCODE's objective is to emphasize the importance of
models and methodologies in correct system design and development, and
to bring together researchers and industry practitioners interested in
all aspects of computer system development to exchange ideas, research
results and lessons learned.

MEMOCODE 2016 seeks research contributions on all aspects of methods
and models for system, hardware, and software design and development:
formal foundations, engineering methods, tools, and experimental case
studies.

Research areas of interest include but are not limited to the
following:

* Modeling Languages, Methods and Tools: Programming languages and
  models; software and system modeling languages; architecture and
  high-level hardware description languages; timing models; model and
  program synthesis methods; model transformation methods

* Formal Methods and Tools: Correct-by-construction methods; static,
  dynamic, and type theoretic analysis; verification; validation; test
  generation; platform-based design; refinement-based,
  component-based, and compositional approaches to design and
  verification

* Models and Methods for Developing Critical Systems: Fault-tolerant
  systems; security-critical and safety-critical systems;
  cyber-physical systems; autonomous and unmanned systems; assurance
  cases

* Quantitative/Qualitative Reasoning: Power/performance/cost/latency
  trade-off methods; power models; reasoning techniques, data mining,
  and other analytical methods for predicting power/performance;
  system models for quantitative design space exploration

* Formal Methods/Models in Practice: Design/empirical case studies

PAPER SUBMISSION

MEMOCODE 2016 calls for three kinds of submissions: regular papers,
work in progress papers, and tool presentations. All papers must be
written in English and formatted according to the following IEEE
Computer Society guidelines:

  http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Submission of papers is handled via the following web page in Easychair:

  https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=memocode2016

Regular papers must be no longer than 10 pages and must describe
original work that does not overlap with another publication or a
submission under review or accepted for publication by any other
conference or journal.

Reviewers will check regular papers for the novelty of the proposed
solution and the proofs given for the claims made. One of the authors
has to summarize the paper at the conference in a regular
presentation.

Work-in-progress (WIP) papers must be no longer than 4 pages and must
describe ongoing work. Reviewers will judge the novelty of the idea,
but do not yet expect proofs for the envisioned results. WIP papers
will be presented during a poster presentation at the conference.

Tool papers must be no longer than 8 pages and should describe an
existing and publicly available tool that implements some
state-of-the-art methods that might have been already published (but
not as a tool paper).

In addition to reviewing the paper, reviewers will assess the tool
itself using inputs and a user's manual provided by the authors on the
tool's web page. Authors of accepted tool papers must demonstrate
their tool at the conference.

For questions regarding submissions, feel free to contact one of the
Program Committee co-chairs:

  * Elizabeth Leonard (elizabeth.leonard at nrl.navy.mil)
  * Klaus Schneider (klaus.schneider at cs.uni-kl.de)

All accepted papers (regular paper, WIP papers, and tool papers) will
be published as IEEE conference proceedings and in IEEE Xplore. For
all three paper categories, publication is contingent on one author
registering for and presenting the paper at the conference. Selected
papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of ACM
Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.
 

DESIGN CONTEST

This year's conference will include the 10th annual MEMOCODE co-design
contest, which poses a computational challenge that participants may
solve using hardware or software on FPGAs, GPUs, and CPUs. Past
contests have included interesting problems in areas of machine
learning, bioinformatics, data analytics, and image processing; past
winners have built innovative solutions targeting GPUs, CPUs, and
FPGAs.

The conference will sponsor at least one prize with a monetary award
for the contest winners. Additionally, each team delivering a complete
and working solution will be invited to prepare an abstract and
present it at the conference, and the winning teams will be invited to
contribute a short paper for presentation in the conference program.

The 2016 contest problem will be unveiled on the MEMOCODE website on
July 29, 2016.

       CONTEST SCHEDULE:

            Contest begins:         July 29
            Contest ends:           August 29
            Contest results:        September 12
            Contest papers due: October 7

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

    Jean-Pierre Talpin, INRIA, General and Finance Chair
    Sandeep Shukla, IIT Kanpur, Local Arrangements and Panel Chair
    Elizabeth Leonard, Naval Research Laboratory, Program co-Chair
    Klaus Schneider, TU Kaiserslautern, Program co-Chair
    Peter Milder, Stony Brook University, Design Contest Chair
    Yi Deng, EagleForce Associates, Inc., Publication Chair

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

    Myla Archer, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
    Paul Attie, American University of Beirut (Lebanon)
    Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland (U.S.)
    Bernd Becker, University of Freiburg (Germany)
    Jani Boutellier, University of Oulu (Finland)
    Jens Brandt, Hochschule Niederrhein (Germany)
    Patricia Derler, National Instruments (U.S.)
    Stephen Edwards, Columbia University (U.S.)
    Mamoun Filali-Amine, IRIT (France)
    Martin Franzle, Carl von Ossietzky University (Germany)
    Masahiro Fujita, University of Tokyo (Japan)
    Franco Fummi, University di Verona (Italy)
    Abdoulaye Gamatie, CNRS (France)
    Angelo Gargantini, University di Bergamo (Italy)
    Marc Geilen, Eindhoven University of Technology (Netherlands)
    Constance Heitmeyer, Naval Research Laboratory (U.S.)
    Rick Kuhn, National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S.)
    Thomas Kuhn, Fraunhofer IESE, Kaiserslautern (Germany)
    Luciano Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
    Axel Legay, INRIA (France)
    Peter Milder, Stony Brook University (U.S.)
    Katell Morin-Allory, TIMA Laboratory (France)
    ThanhVu Nguyen, University of Maryland (U.S.)
    John O'Leary, Intel Corporation (U.S.)
    Claire Pagetti, ONERA (France)
    Roberto Passerone, University di Trento (Italy)
    Maxime Pelcat, IETR/INSA (France)
    Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University (Israel)
    Murali Rangarajan, Boeing Company (U.S.)
    Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University (U.S.)
    Sanjai Rayadurgam, University of Minnesota (U.S.)
    Elvinia Riccobene, University di Milano (U.S.)
    Neda Saeedloei, University of Minnesota, Duluth (U.S.)
    Jean-Pierre Talpin, INRIA (France)
    Jurgen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany)
    Reinhard von Hanxleden, Kiel University (Germany)
    Alan Wassyng, McMaster University (Canada)
    Fei Xie, Portland State University (U.S.)


STEERING COMMITTEE

    Arvind, MIT (U.S.)
    Masahiro Fujita, U. Tokyo (Japan)
    Rajesh Gupta, UC-San Diego (U.S.)
    Constance Heitmeyer, NRL (U.S.)
    James Hoe, Carnegie Mellon U. (U.S.)
    Sandeep Shukla, IIT Kanpur (IN)
    Jean-Pierre Talpin, INRIA-IRISA (FR)

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