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The 7th NASA Formal Methods Symposium<br>
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<a href="http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/nfm2015" target="_blank">http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/nfm2015</a><br>
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<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">27 – 29 April <span class="">2015</span></span></span><br>
Pasadena, California, USA<br>
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<span class="">Paper</span> Submission: 10 Nov 2014<br>
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THEME<br>
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The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and
safety-critical systems require advanced techniques that address their
specification, verification, validation, and certification.<br>
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The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and
practitioners from academia, industry, and government, with the goals of
identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving assurance
in mission- and safety-critical systems. Within NASA such systems
include for example autonomous robots, separation assurance algorithms
for aircraft, Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen), and
autonomous rendezvous and docking for spacecraft. Moreover, emerging
paradigms such as property-based design, code generation, and safety
cases are bringing with them new challenges and opportunities. The focus
of the symposium will be on formal techniques, their theory, current
capabilities, and limitations, as well as their application to
aerospace, robotics, and other mission- and safety-critical systems in
all design life-cycle stages. We encourage submissions on cross-cutting
approaches marrying formal verification techniques with advances in
critical system development, such as requirements generation, analysis
of aerospace operational concepts, and formal methods integrated in
early design stages and carrying throughout system development.<br>
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TOPICS<br>
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>
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Model checking<br>
Theorem proving<br>
SAT and SMT solving<br>
Symbolic execution<br>
Static analysis<br>
Runtime verification<br>
Program refinement<br>
Compositional verification<br>
Modeling and specification formalisms<br>
Model-based development<br>
Model-based testing<br>
Requirement engineering<br>
Formal approaches to fault tolerance<br>
Security and intrusion detection<br>
Applications of formal methods to aerospace systems<br>
Applications of formal methods to cyber-physical systems<br>
Applications of formal methods to human-machine interaction analysis<br><br><br>
INVITED SPEAKERS<br>
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Dino Distefano<br>
Software Engineer at Facebook, California, USA and Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK.<br>
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Viktor Kuncak<br>
Leads Lab for Automated Reasoning and Analysis at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.<br>
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Rob Manning<br>
Chief Engineer at NASA/JPL.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES<br>
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<span class="">Paper</span> Submission: <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">10 Nov 2014</span></span><br>
<span class="">Paper</span> Notifications: <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">12 Jan <span class="">2015</span></span></span><br>
Camera-ready <span class="">Papers</span>: <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">9 Feb <span class="">2015</span></span></span><br>
Symposium: <span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">27 – 29 April <span class="">2015</span></span></span><br>
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LOCATION AND COST<br>
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The symposium will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA, April 27-<span tabindex="0" class=""><span class="">29, <span class="">2015</span></span></span>.<br>
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There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested
individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to submit, to
attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions;
however, all attendees must register.<br>
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SUBMISSION DETAILS<br>
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There are two categories of submissions:<br>
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- Regular <span class="">papers</span> describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages)<br>
- Short <span class="">papers</span> describing tools, experience reports, or descriptions of work in progress with preliminary results<br>
(6 pages)<br>
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All <span class="">papers</span> should be in English and describe
original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All
submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the Programme
Committee. <span class="">Papers</span> will appear in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and must use LNCS style formatting. <span class="">Papers</span> should be submitted in PDF format.<br><br>
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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<br>
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Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany<br>
Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA<br>
Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany<br>
Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG/UJF, France<br>
Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany<br>
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria<br>
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA<br>
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada<br>
Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy<br>
Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA<br>
Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<br>
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA<br>
Dawson Engler, Stanford University, USA<br>
Jean-Christophe Filliatre, Université Paris-Sud, France<br>
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<br>
Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, USA<br>
Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France<br>
Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA<br>
Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria<br>
John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA<br>
Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick/Lero, Ireland<br>
Bart Jacobs, University of Leuven, Belgium<br>
Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA<br>
Gerwin Klein, NICTA, Australia<br>
Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK<br>
Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel<br>
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark<br>
Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA<br>
Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany<br>
Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany<br>
Pete Manolios, Northeastern University, USA<br>
Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland<br>
Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA<br>
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<br>
Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel<br>
Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA<br>
Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg, Germany<br>
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, USA<br>
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center, USA<br>
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA<br>
Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland<br>
Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA<br>
Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa<br>
Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, USA<br>
Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA<br>
Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK<br>
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PC CHAIRS<br><br>Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br>Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br>Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br><br><br>PUBLICITY SUPPORT<div><br></div><div>Ylies Falcone, Universite Joseph Fourier, France<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
STEERING COMMITTEE<br>
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Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center<br>
Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center<br>
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center<br>
Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br>
Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<br>
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center<br>
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center<br>
Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center<br>
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center<br>
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