********************************************************** SPIN 31st International Symposium on Model Checking Software https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/ 7 - 8 May 2025 co-located with ETAPS 2025, Hamilton, Canada ********************************************************* Theme of the Symposium: ----------------------- The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software but does not exclude the analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation. The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the SPIN model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly-scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: https://spinroot.com/spin/Workshops/. Topics of Interest: ------------------- Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of (concurrent) software/hardware, including: -- Model checking -- Deductive verification -- Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT -- Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques -- Static analysis and abstract interpretation -- Modular and compositional verification techniques -- Verification of timed and probabilistic systems -- Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques -- Program synthesis -- Derivation of specifications, test cases etc. via formal analysis -- Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract -- Formal analysis of learned systems -- Any combination of the above * Application and/or engineering of verification tools, including: -- Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results -- Implementation of novel verification tools -- Benchmarks and comparative studies for verification tools -- Verification tools using modern hardware, e.g.: multi-core CPU, GPU, TPU, cloud, and quantum Important Dates: ---------------- Paper Submission: 13 Feb 2025 Artifact Submission (Tool Papers): 27 Feb 2025 Paper/Artifact Notifications: 24 Mar 2025 Artifact Submission (Other Papers): 12 Mar 2025 Non-tool Paper Artifact Notification: 1 May 2025 Symposium: 7-8 May 2025 Submission Details: ------------------- We are soliciting three categories of papers: * Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (16 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices); * Full Tool Papers, accompanied by a *Mandatory Artifact*, describing work that is closely-related to the development or the evaluation of a verification tool or similar (16 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices); * Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods (6 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices). Note: Artifact evaluation is optional for short papers but highly recommended for those with a focus on tools. If you want to have the accompanying artifact of your short paper evaluated, please submit it to the mandatory AE on February 27. Papers submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2025 -- in the track Research Papers, select the respective paper category. All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, the importance of contribution, soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to related work. The proceedings of SPIN 2025 will be published as part of post-conference proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format; see https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui.... Please take into account Springer’s Book authors code of conduct when preparing submissions: https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/book-authors-code-of-conduct. Artifact Evaluation: -------------------- SPIN 2025 will feature artifact evaluation, performed by an Artifact Evaluation Committee (AEC). The AEC evaluates artifacts based on documentation, availability, reproducibility of results, and tool reusability (if applicable). Artifact submission is mandatory for Full Tool Papers. While artifact submission is optional for papers in other categories, we highly encourage authors of papers involving tool development and empirical evaluation to submit an artifact for evaluation. Papers with an accompanying artifact may be awarded one or more badges from the EAPLS artifact badging scheme (https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/). More details can be found at: https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/artifacts Keynote Speakers: ----------------- Alexandre Duret-Lutz (EPITA Research Laboratory (LRE)) Orna Grumberg (Technion, Israel) PC Chairs: ---------- Gidon Ernst (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University) Artifact Evaluation Chairs: --------------------------- Julie Cailler (University of Lorraine & Inria, France) Nian-Ze Lee (LMU Munich / National Taiwan University) ***************** This edition of SPIN will include artifact evaluation, cf. https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/artifacts. We are now forming an Artifact Evaluation Committee headed by our artifact evaluation chairs: Julie Cailler, University of Lorraine & Inria, France (julie.cailler@loria.fr) Nian-Ze Lee, LMU Munich / National Taiwan University (nian-ze.lee@sosy.ifi.lmu.de) If you have experience in artifact creation and evaluation or a passion for tools and empirical experiments, you are welcome to nominate yourself via an email to the AEC chairs. ***************** -- ____________________________________________________________ __ /\ \ \_____ / \ ###[==_____> / \ /_/ __ / __ \ \ \_____ | ( ) | ###[==_____> /| /\/\ |\ /_/ / | | | | \ / |=|==|=| \ Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Ph.D. / | | | | \ Associate Professor, Iowa State Univ / USA | ~||~ |NASA \ Departments of Aerospace Engineering, |______| ~~ |______| Computer Science, Mathematics, and (__||__) Electrical and Computer Engineering /_\ /_\ !!! !!! laboratory.temporallogic.org