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THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS<BR>
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NFM 2011<BR>
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Third NASA Formal Methods Symposium<BR>
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Pasadena, California, USA<BR>
April 18 - 20, 2011<BR>
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IMPORTANT DATES<BR>
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Submission deadline : <BR>
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*** December 19, 2010 ***<BR>
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Notification of acceptance/rejection : January 21, 2011<BR>
Final version due : February 18, 2011<BR>
Conference : April 18-20, 2011<BR>
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THEME<BR>
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The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and<BR>
practitioners from academia, government and industry, with the goals<BR>
of identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving<BR>
assurance in mission- and safety-critical systems. The focus of the<BR>
symposium is on formal methods, and aims to foster collaboration<BR>
between NASA researchers and engineers and the wider aerospace and<BR>
academic formal methods communities. The symposium will be comprised<BR>
of a mixture of invited talks by leading researchers and<BR>
practitioners, presentation of accepted papers, and panels.<BR>
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TOPICS OF INTEREST<BR>
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* Theorem proving<BR>
* Model checking<BR>
* Real-time, hybrid, stochastic systems<BR>
* SAT and SMT solvers<BR>
* Symbolic execution<BR>
* Abstraction<BR>
* Compositional verification<BR>
* Program refinement<BR>
* Static analysis<BR>
* Dynamic analysis<BR>
* Automated testing<BR>
* Model-based testing<BR>
* Model-based development<BR>
* Fault protection<BR>
* Security and intrusion detection<BR>
* Application experiences<BR>
* Modeling and specification formalisms<BR>
* Requirements specification and analysis<BR>
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INVITED SPEAKERS<BR>
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Rustan Leino<BR>
Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
"From Retrospective Verification to Forward-Looking Development"<BR>
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Oege de Moor<BR>
University of Oxford, UK<BR>
"Do Coding Standards Improve Software Quality?"<BR>
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Andreas Zeller<BR>
Saarland University, Germany<BR>
"Specifications for Free"<BR>
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TUTORIALS<BR>
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Bart Jacobs<BR>
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium<BR>
"VeriFast: a Powerful, Sound, Predictable, Fast Verifier for C and Java"<BR>
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Michal Moskal<BR>
Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
"Verification of Functional Correctness of Concurrent C Programs with VCC"<BR>
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HISTORY<BR>
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NFM 2011 is the third edition of the NASA Formal Methods Symposium,<BR>
organized by NASA on a yearly basis. The first in 2009 and was<BR>
organized at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California. The<BR>
second in 2010 was organized at NASA head quarters, Washington<BR>
D.C. The symposium originated from the earlier Langley Formal Methods<BR>
Workshop series.<BR>
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PAPER SUBMISSION<BR>
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There are two categories of submissions:<BR>
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* Regular paper: up to 15 pages, describing fully developed work and<BR>
complete results. Papers can present theory, software engineering aspects,<BR>
or case studies.<BR>
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* Tool papers: up to 6 pages, describing an operational tool. The<BR>
authors of accepted tool papers will give demonstrations of their<BR>
tools in tool demo sessions. Tool papers should explain enhancements<BR>
that have been done compared to previously published work. A tool<BR>
paper does not need to present the theory behind the tool but can<BR>
focus more on its features, and how it is used, with screen shots and<BR>
examples.<BR>
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All papers should be in English and describe original work that has<BR>
not been published or submitted elsewhere.<BR>
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Submissions will be fully reviewed and the symposium proceedings will<BR>
appear as a volume in Lecture Notes of Computer Science. Papers must<BR>
use the LNCS style, and be in pdf format.<BR>
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COSTS<BR>
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There will be no registration fee charged to participants.<BR>
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PROGRAMME CHAIRS<BR>
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Mihaela Bobaru, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory<BR>
Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory<BR>
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory<BR>
Rajeev Joshi, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory<BR>
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<BR>
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Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania, USA<BR>
Tom Ball, Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
Howard Barringer, University of Manchester, UK<BR>
Saddek Bensalem, Verimag Laboratory, France<BR>
Nikolaj Bjoerner, Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
Eric Bodden, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany<BR>
Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada<BR>
Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland, USA<BR>
Dennis Dams, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium<BR>
Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<BR>
Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA<BR>
Cormac Flanagan, UC Santa Cruz, USA<BR>
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<BR>
Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA<BR>
Radu Grosu, Stony Brook, USA<BR>
John Hatcliff, Kansas State University, USA<BR>
Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA<BR>
Mike Hinchey, Lero - the Irish SW. Eng. Research Centre, Ireland<BR>
Sarfraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin, USA<BR>
Orna Kupferman, Jerusalem Hebrew University, Israel<BR>
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark<BR>
Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany<BR>
Kenneth McMillan, Cadence Berkeley Labs, USA<BR>
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley, USA<BR>
Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA<BR>
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<BR>
Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA<BR>
Nicolas Rouquette, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA<BR>
Kristin Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<BR>
John Rushby, SRI International, USA<BR>
Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA<BR>
Koushik Sen, Berkeley University, USA<BR>
Sanjit Seshia, Berkeley University, USA<BR>
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA<BR>
Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa<BR>
Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, USA<BR>
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley, USA<BR>
Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA<BR>
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STEERING COMMITTEE<BR>
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Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center<BR>
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center<BR>
Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory<BR>
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory<BR>
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley<BR>
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center<BR>
James Rash, NASA Goddard<BR>
Kristin Y. Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center<BR>
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley<BR>
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