[ecoop-info] SPIN 2017 in Santa Barbara, CA, USA - 1 month from the paper submission deadline

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SPIN 2017

24th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software
Santa Barbara, CA, USA, July 13-14, 2017


http://conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2017 <http://conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2017>

Collocated with ISSTA 


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 analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation.

History: 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, symbolic execution, etc.

SPIN 2017 will be arranged as a ACM SIGSOFT event, collocated with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2017): http://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2017 <http://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2017>. An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: http://spinroot.com/spin/symposia <http://spinroot.com/spin/symposia>.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software
Formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts
Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract
Model checking
Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT
Verifying compilers
Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques
Static analysis and abstract interpretation
Combination of verification techniques
Modular and compositional verification techniques
Verification of timed and probabilistic systems
Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques
Combination of static and dynamic analyses
Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material via formal analysis
Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results
Engineering and implementation of software verification and analysis tools
Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification and analysis tools
Formal methods education and training
Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the symposium

Submission Guidelines

The contributions to SPIN 2017 will be published as ACM Proceedings, and should be submitted in the ACM Conference Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>.

With the exception of survey and history papers, submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. 

We are soliciting two categories of papers:

Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (10 pages);
Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods education (4 pages).
Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2017 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2017 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2017>.

Best Paper awards will be given and announced at the conference. 

A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).

Important Dates

Paper Submission: February 10, 2017 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth)
Author Notification : April 15, 2017
Camera-Ready Paper: May 20, 2017
Symposium : July 13-14, 2017

Program Chairs

Hakan Erdogmus, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Klaus Havelund, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

Awards Chair

Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA

Program Committee

Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Christel Baier, Technical University of Dresden, Germany
Tom Ball, Microsoft Research, USA
Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Dirk Beyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU Munich), Germany
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Dragan Bosnacki, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Zmago Brezocnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Sagar Chaki, Software Engineering Institute CMU, USA
Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Lucas Cordeiro, University of Oxford, UK
Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA
Susanne Graf, VERIMAG Laboratory, France
Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, USA
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Stefan Leue, University of Konstanz, Germany
Alice Miller, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Neha Rungta, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Theo Ruys, RUwise, Netherlands
Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA
Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, United States
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Stavros Tripakis, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Willem Visser, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Farn Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Michael Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA
Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands