CALL FOR PAPERS
International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) STUDENT FORUM San Jose, California, USA, Oct 22 - 25, 2019 https://fmcad.forsyte.at/FMCAD19/student-forum/
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: July 26, 2019 Notification: August 16, 2019
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
FMCAD Tutorial Day: Oct 22, 2019 Regular Program: Oct 23 - 25, 2019
GOALS AND FORMAT
Student Forum provides a platform for students at any career stage (undergraduate or graduate) to introduce their research to the wider Formal Methods community and solicit feedback. The event will consist of short presentations by the student authors of each accepted submission and of a poster that will be on display throughout the duration of the conference. All participants of the conference are encouraged to attend the talks and approach the students during the poster presentation.
Accepted submissions will be listed in the description of Student Forum in the conference proceedings. The authors will also have the option to upload their poster and presentation to the FMCAD web site. Submissions will not appear in the FMCAD proceedings; thus, the presentation at Student Forum should not interfere with potential future submissions of this research (to FMCAD or elsewhere).
TRAVEL AWARDS
Most of the applicants will receive up to $1000 of travel reimbursement after the conference. The first author of each contribution will be given priority over other authors. Please make sure you hold on to all receipts for reimbursement. Further instructions on how to apply for travel grants will be on the website.
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions for the event must be short reports describing research ideas or ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within the scope of FMCAD. Work, part of which has been previously published, will be considered; the novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in such cases. All submissions will be reviewed by a subgroup of FMCAD program committee members.
Submissions should use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size and be 2 pages long including all figures and references. Please submit using the EasyChair system:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad2019
Advice: Focus on the key idea and try to convey it to the reader in an intuitive way. Provide a clear motivation and emphasize novel concepts/ contributions. Avoid unnecessary notational clutter unless it is a widely used formalism and helps to make the paper more concise and clear. Only describe related work that���s absolutely crucial to your contribution: the limited space available should be used to present your work.
CONFERENCE SCOPE
FMCAD 2019 is the nineteenth 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.
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 systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and 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 to verifying safety, connectivity and security properties of networks, distributed systems, smart contracts, blockchains, and IoT devices.
FMCAD 2019 COMMITTEES
PROGRAM CHAIRS:
Clark Barrett, Stanford University Jin Yang, Intel Corporation
STUDENT FORUM CHAIR:
Grigory Fedyukovich, Princeton University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Erika Abraham, Aachen University June Andronick, CSIRO|Data61 and UNSW Timos Antonopoulos, Yale University Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Per Bjesse, Synopsys Jasmin Blanchette, Inria Nancy Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology Gianpiero Cabodi, Politechnico Torino Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud Vijay D'Silva, Google Rayna Dimitrova, University of Leicester Malay Ganai, Synopsys Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler Liana Hadarean, Amazon Joe Hendrix, Galois Marijn Heule, University of Texas at Austin Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin Alexander Ivrii, IBM George Karpenkov, Google Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research Rajdeep Mukherjee, Cadence Alexander Nadel, Intel Corporation Corina Pasareanu, NASA/CMU Sandip Ray, University of Florida Giles Reger, University of Manchester Anna Slobodova, Centaur Armando Solar-Lezama, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Niklas S��rensson, Mentor Graphics Daryl Stewart, ARM Christoph Sticksel, MathWorks Chao Wang, University of Southern California Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology Zhenkun Yang, Intel Corporation Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago
TUTORIAL CHAIR:
Sandip Ray, University of Florida
WEBMASTER:
Tom van Dijk, Johannes Kepler University
LOCAL ARRANGEMENT:
Yoni Zohar, Stanford University
PUBLICATION CHAIR:
Florian Lonsing, Stanford University
FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE:
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University Alan Hu, University of British Columbia Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology