The 16th NASA Formal Methods Symposium NFM 2024

June 4-6, 2024 Moffett Field, California

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Abstract submission: December 1, 2023 Full paper submission: December 8, 2023 Notification: February 16, 2024 Camera-ready version: March 15, 2024

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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 processes. For example, there is an increasing need for autonomous systems in deep space missions including NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration plans. 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 safety-critical systems. This year’s symposium extends the focus to safety assurance of machine learning enabled autonomous systems, formal methods for digital transformation, and accessibility for new industries.

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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

Safety Assurance of Autonomous Systems * Verification of machine learning (ML) enabled systems * Run-time monitoring or model checking to ensure safe operation * Formal specifications and modeling of ML enabled systems * Case-studies/experience reports exploring the application of formal methods in autonomous safety-critical, cyber-physical and hybrid systems * Using formal evidence for certification of ML enabled systems

Formal Methods in Practice * Experience reports of application of formal methods in industry * Use of formal methods in education * Applications of formal methods in: - concurrent and distributed systems - fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems - human-machine interaction analysis

Safety Assurance of Autonomous Systems * Verification of machine learning (ML) enabled systems * Runtime monitoring or model checking to ensure safe operation * Formal specifications and modeling of ML enabled systems * Case-studies/experience reports exploring the application of formal methods in autonomous safety-critical, cyber-physical and hybrid systems * Using formal evidence for certification of ML enabled systems

Formal Methods for Digital Transformation * Applications related to Digital Twin & Digital Thread * Verification for integrated design and manufacturing * AI digital assistants for system design * Runtime monitoring for Smart Campus & Smart Cities

Accessibility of Formal Methods for New Industries * "New Space" markets * Advanced Air Mobility and Startup Aviation * Formal Methods as a Service

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There are two categories of submissions: * Regular Papers (15 pages) including references, describing fully developed work and complete results * Short Papers (6 pages) including references, in one of the categories below: - Tool papers describing novel and publicly available tools - Case studies detailing applications of formal methods - 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. NFM24 will be a hybrid conference. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged to present their work in person at the conference.

There will be a tool demonstration session at the conference, where tool developers get to showcase their tools interactively with the attendees. All tool papers, under the short papers category, are required to participate in the tool demonstration session. uthors of regular papers are also welcome to participate in the tool demonstration session to showcase their application.

All submitters who are interested in participating in the tool demonstration session must include an additional appendix (maximum 4 pages and will not appear in the proceedings) containing the description of the proposed demo and the URL to a screencast demonstrating the tool. Authors of all accepted papers additionally have an opportunity to present a poster.

All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the Program Committee. Accepted regular and short papers will be published in the Formal Methods subline of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must use LNCS style formatting described on https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui.... Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site, https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2024.

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The symposium will take place at the NASA Ames Conference Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.

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.

Nathan Benz Divya Gopinath Nija Shi

NFM '24 Chairs nfm24-chairs@lists.nasa.gov