<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div>CALL FOR PAPERS<br><br>The 7th NASA Formal Methods Symposium<br><br><a href="http://www.nasaformalmethods.org/nfm2015">http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/nfm2015</a><br><br>27 – 29 April 2015<br>Pasadena, California, USA<br><br>Paper Submission: *** 10 Nov 2014 ***<br><br><br>THEME<br><br>The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and safety-critical systems require advanced techniques that address their specification, verification, validation, and certification.<br><br>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><br><br>TOPICS<br><br>Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br><br>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><br>Dino Distefano<br>Software Engineer at Facebook, California, USA and Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK.<br><br>Viktor Kuncak<br>Leads Lab for Automated Reasoning and Analysis at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland.<br><br>Rob Manning<br>Chief Engineer at NASA/JPL.<br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br>Paper Submission:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>10 Nov 2014<br>Paper Notifications:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>12 Jan 2015<br>Camera-ready Papers:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>9 Feb 2015<br>Symposium: 27 – 29 April 2015<br><br><br>LOCATION AND COST<br><br>The symposium will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA, April 27-29, 2015.<br><br>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><br><br>SUBMISSION DETAILS<br><br>There are two categories of submissions:<br><br>- Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages)<br>- Short papers describing tools, experience reports, or descriptions of work in progress with preliminary results <br> (6 pages)<br><br>All papers 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. Papers will appear in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and must use LNCS style formatting. Papers should be submitted in PDF format.<br><br><br>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>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<br><br>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><br><br>STEERING COMMITTEE<br><br>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><br>---</div></body></html>