November 2024 - finite-model-theory

[fm-announcements] NFM 2025 second CFP
by Dutle, Aaron M. (LARC-D320) via fm-announcements 21 Nov '24

21 Nov '24

17th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM’25) 11-13 June 2025 Hampton Roads, VA Call for Papers Symposium Theme The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry requires advanced technologies to address their specification, design, verification, validation, and certification. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, other government agencies, academia, and industry, with the goal of identifying challenges and providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such critical systems. The focus of this symposium is on formal techniques for software and system assurance for applications in space, aviation, robotics, and other NASA-relevant critical systems. Topics of Interest · Advances in Formal Methods – Formal verification, model checking, and static analysis; interactive and automated theorem proving; program and specification synthesis, code transformation and generation; run-time verification and test case generation; techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods; design for verification and correct-by-design techniques; requirements generation, specification, and validation. · Integration of Formal Methods – Use of ML techniques in formal methods; integration of formal methods and software engineering; integration of diverse formal methods techniques; integration of formal methods with simulation, analysis, and test approaches. · Formal Methods in Practice – Experience reports on applications of formal methods in industry; use of formal methods in education; applications of formal methods to concurrent and distributed systems, human-machine systems, autonomous systems, and fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems. Submission There are two categories of submissions: · Regular papers – Up to 15 pages plus references. Regular papers describe fully developed work and complete results. · Short papers — Up to 6 pages plus references. Short papers describe either novel and publicly available tools, case studies detailing applications of formal methods, or new emerging ideas in the topics of interest. All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted papers must present their work in person at the conference. NFM prohibits the use of generative AI to create the textual narrative of the paper. However, the use of generative AI to create examples (such as text, tables, graphics, and code) that support the paper is permitted, but this must be disclosed in the paper. Basic word processing systems that recommend and insert replacement text, perform spelling or grammar checks and corrections, or systems that do language translations need not be disclosed in the paper. All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the Program Committee. NFM is currently arranging to publish accepted regular and short papers in the Formal Methods subline of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Authors should therefore use the LNCS style formatting described at https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sprin…>. Papers must be submitted in PDF format through the EasyChair submission site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2025<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Feasychair…>. Important Dates Paper submission December 13, 2024 Author notification February 14, 2025 Camera ready deadline March 14, 2025 Symposium June 11-13, 2025 Location and Cost The symposium will be hosted by the Computer Science Department at the College of William & Mary, in historic Williamsburg, VA. Williamsburg is located about 150 miles south of Washington, D.C., and midway between Richmond and Norfolk on Interstate 64. It is home to an award-winning theme park, several recreation opportunities and the world's largest living history museum. For information about visiting the William & Mary campus, including lodging options, see www.wm.edu/about/visiting/<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wm.ed…> There will be no registration fee charged to participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, listen to the talks, and participate in discussions. However, all attendees must register. --- To opt-out from this mailing list, send an email to fm-announcements-request(a)lists.nasa.gov with the word 'unsubscribe' as subject or in the body. You can also make the request by contacting fm-announcements-owner(a)lists.nasa.gov

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SPIN 2025: Call for Papers
by Rozier, Kristin-Yvonne [AER E] 18 Nov '24

18 Nov '24

********************************************************** 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-gu…. 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(a)loria.fr) Nian-Ze Lee, LMU Munich / National Taiwan University (nian-ze.lee(a)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

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[Vardi-list] Appeal to support SIGLOG, the LICS sponsor
by Moshe Vardi 17 Nov '24

17 Nov '24

Forwarding email from Catuscia Palamidessi. Moshe ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 10:22:09 +0100 From: catuscia <catuscia(a)lix.polytechnique.fr> Subject: [LICS] Appeal to support SIGLOG, the LICS sponsor Dear LICS colleagues, This message addresses an important and timely subject concerning the sustainability of SIGLOG within ACM. As some of you may already know, in 2022, ACM made the decision to increase the management fee (overhead) for its Special Interest Groups (SIGs), a fee that had remained steady for years. For smaller SIGs like ours, the minimum overhead increased from USD 10,000 to USD 25,000 annually. This change has significantly impacted SIGLOG's finances, and if we cannot find a way to pay the fee, we will be obliged to either merge SIGLOG with another SIG (the best choice, probably, would be SIGPLAN) or de-charter it altogether. We requested additional time from ACM to explore ways of securing the financial foundation necessary to keep SIGLOG independent. We explained that our plan includes to seek increased industry sponsorship, grow our membership, and conduct fundraising activities at LICS and other events. ACM responded positively, SIGLOG now has until July 31, 2025, to develop a concrete, viable financial plan. As a first step, we would like to ask you for support. This is not only a financial matter: to ensure our strength as a committed SIG, we need to increase our membership numbers. While the LICS community comprises around 2,600 people, SIGLOG currently has only about 200 members. We strongly encourage all LICS members to join SIGLOG. The membership fee is very affordable -- just 25 USD, a rate that has remained unchanged since the start of SIGLOG. We plan to maintain this rate, at least for students and early-career researchers, to support inclusivity. Another goal is to promote industry sponsorship. Many in our community have strong connections with industry partners, and securing initial sponsorship would provide vital support as we work toward more stable, long-term financial solutions. If you have connections who might be interested in supporting SIGLOG, now is the time to reach out and explore potential sponsorship opportunities. Finally, we invite your engagement, ideas, and shared experiences to help us build a sustainable future for SIGLOG. Your support is essential in ensuring that SIGLOG continues to exist as an independent entity dedicated to Logic. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. P.s. The SIGLOG web page is here: https://siglog.org/, and the instructions to join SIGLOG are here: https://siglog.org/membership/. Note that you don't need to have a separate ACM membership in order to subscribe to SIGLOG. Best regards, Catuscia Palamidessi SIGLOG's chair Also on behalf of the SIGLOG EC --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- Catuscia Palamidessi Inria Saclay 1 rue Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves Bâtiment Alan Turing Office: +33 (0)1 74 85 42 49 Campus de l'École Polytechnique Email: catuscia(a)lix.polytechnique.fr 91120 Palaiseau, FR URL: www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~catuscia --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------- _______________________________________________ Vardi-list mailing list Vardi-list(a)mailman.rice.edu https://mailman.rice.edu/mailman/listinfo/vardi-list

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