[ecoop-info] RV and RV-CuBES 2017 - Call for papers and tutorials

Ayoub Nouri ayoub.nouri at univ-grenoble-alpes.fr
Sat Apr 15 20:39:09 CEST 2017 

RV 2017

*Call for Papers and Tutorials*

           The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification

           September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA

http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk <http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk/>

rv2017 at easychair.org <mailto:rv2017 at easychair.org>

Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of 
the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime 
verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, 
and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and 
effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally more 
practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can 
be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging 
purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and 
security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as 
online system repair.

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

  * specification languages
  * monitor construction techniques
  * program instrumentation
  * logging, recording, and replay
  * combination of static and dynamic analysis
  * specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces
  * monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems
  * runtime checking of privacy and security policies
  * statistical model checking
  * metrics and statistical information gathering
  * program/system execution visualization
  * fault localization, containment, recovery and repair
  * integrated vehicle health management (IVHM)

Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical 
systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems 
software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and 
diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy.

We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime 
verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. 
Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories 
will not be treated differently from other contributions.

An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be 
found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org.

RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will 
feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days 
(September 14-16).


    Important Dates

*Papers*as well as *tutorial proposals*will follow the following timeline:

  * Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)
  * Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)
  * Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017
  * Paper notification: June 26, 2017
  * Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017
  * Conference: September 13-16, 2017


    Invited Speakers

We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017:

  * Rodrigo Fonseca <http://cs.brown.edu/%7Erfonseca/>, Brown
    University, USA
  * Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg
    <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/drivers/devtest/tools-for-verifying-drivers>,
    Microsoft, USA
  * Andreas Zeller <https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/zeller/>, Saarland
    University, Germany


    General Information on Submissions

All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an 
LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer 
style detailed here:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication 
elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted 
electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17

The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but 
exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations 
may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at 
the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings.

At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 
2017 to present.


    Paper Submissions

There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, 
short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at 
least 3 members of the Program Committee.

  * *Regular Papers* (up to 15 pages, not including references) should
    present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers,
    system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and
    case studies on runtime verification.
  * *Short Papers* (up to 6 pages, not including references) may present
    novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example
    emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or
    techniques and applications that establish relationships between
    runtime verification and other domains.
  * *Tool Demonstration Papers* (up to 8 pages, not including
    references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or
    novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification.
    The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity,
    selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a
    website containing the theoretical background and user guide.
    Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and
    benchmarks available with their submission.

The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and a 
selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a 
special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal Methods in System Design 
<http://link.springer.com/journal/10703>.


    Tutorial Submissions

Tutorials are two-to-three-hour presentations on a selected topic. 
Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of 
up to 20 pages in the LNCS conference proceedings, not including references.

A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a 
proposed timeline, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable) 
and the differences to this incarnation, and a brief biography of the 
presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages.


    RV-CuBES: A Workshop Replacement for the Competition

The Runtime Verification Competition will not be running in 2017. In its 
place a Workshop is being organised to discuss the future of the 
competition and showcase existing Runtime Verification tools. Please see 
the relevant page <http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk/rv-cubes/> on the 
conference website for details.



    Organization

*General Chair*

Klaus Havelund <http://www.havelund.com/>, NASA Jet Propulsion 
Laboratory, USA

*Program Chairs*

Shuvendu Lahiri 
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/shuvendu/>, Microsoft 
Research, USA
Giles Reger <http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/%7Eregerg/>, University of 
Manchester, UK

*Finance Chair*

Oleg Sokolsky <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Esokolsky/>, University of 
Pennsylvania, USA

*Publicity Chair*

Ayoub Nour <http://www-verimag.imag.fr/%7Enouri/>i, University Grenoble 
Alpes, France

*Local Organisation Chairs*

Grigory Fedyukovich 
<http://homes.cs.washington.edu/%7Egrigory/about.html>, University of 
Washington, USA
Rahul Kumar <http://rahulku.com/>, Microsoft Research, USA

*Program Committee*

Wolfgang Ahrendt <http://www.cse.chalmers.se/%7Eahrendt/>, Chalmers 
Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden
Cyrille Artho <https://people.kth.se/%7Eartho/>, KTH Royal Institute of 
Technology, Sweden
Howard Barringer 
<http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/Howard.barringer/>, The University 
of Manchester, UK
Ezio Bartocci <http://www.eziobartocci.com/>, Vienna University of 
Technology, Austria
Andreas Bauer <http://www.immerundewig.at/>, KUKA Systems, Germany
Saddek Bensalem <http://www-verimag.imag.fr/%7Ebensalem/>,  University 
of Grenoble Alpes/VERIMAG, France
Eric Bodden <http://www.bodden.de/>, Paderborn University / Fraunhofer 
IEM, Germany
Borzoo Bonakdarpour <http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/borzoo/>, McMaster 
University, Canada
Christian Colombo 
<https://www.um.edu.mt/ict/cs/staff/christian_colombo>, University of 
Malta, Malta
Ylies Falcone <http://www.ylies.fr>, University Grenoble Alpes/Inria, France
Grigory Fedyukovich 
<http://homes.cs.washington.edu/%7Egrigory/about.html>, University of 
Washington, USA
Lu Feng <https://www.cs.virginia.edu/%7Elufeng/>, University of 
Virginia, USA
Patrice Godefroid <https://patricegodefroid.github.io>, Microsoft 
Research, USA
Jean Goubault-Larrecq <http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/%7Egoubault/>, 
CNRS/ENSde Cachan, France
Alex Groce <http://eecs.oregonstate.edu/people/groce-alex>, Northern 
Arizona University, USA
Radu Grosu <https://ti.tuwien.ac.at/cps/people/grosu>, Vienna University 
of Technology, Austria
Sylvain Hallé <http://leduotang.ca/sylvain/>, University of Québec at 
Chicoutimi, Canada
Marieke Huisman <http://wwwhome.ewi.utwente.nl/%7Emarieke/>, University 
of Twente, Netherlands
Franjo Ivancic <https://sites.google.com/site/ivancic/>, Google, USA
Bengt Jonsson <http://user.it.uu.se/%7Ebengt/>, Uppsala University, Sweden
Felix Klaedtke <https://sites.google.com/site/felixklaedtkeshomepage/>, 
NEC Europe Ltd., Germany
Rahul Kumar <http://rahulku.com/>, Microsoft Research, USA
Kim Larsen <http://people.cs.aau.dk/%7Ekgl/>, Aalborg University, Denmark
Insup Lee <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Elee/home/home/index.shtml>, 
University of Pennsylvania, USA
Axel Legay <https://people.irisa.fr/Axel.Legay/>, Inria Rennes, France
Martin Leucker <https://www.isp.uni-luebeck.de/leucker>, University of 
Lübeck, Germany
Ben Livshits <http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/livshits/>, 
Imperial College, UK
David Lo <http://www.mysmu.edu/faculty/davidlo/>, Singapore Management 
University, Singapore
Francesco Logozzo 
<https://www.linkedin.com/in/francesco-logozzo-4106386>, Facebook, USA
Parthasarathy Madhusudan <http://madhu.cs.illinois.edu>, University of 
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Leonardo Mariani 
<http://www.lta.disco.unimib.it/lta/personalPages/leonardoMariani/leonardoMariani.php>, University 
of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Madan Musuvathi 
<https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/madanm/>, Microsoft 
Research, USA
Ayoub Nouri <http://www-verimag.imag.fr/%7Enouri/>, University of 
Grenoble Alpes, France
Gordon Pace <http://www.cs.um.edu.mt/gordon.pace/>, University of Malta, 
Malta
Doron Peled <http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/%7Edoronp/>, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Veselin Raychev <http://www.srl.inf.ethz.ch/raychev.php>, ETH Zurich, 
Switzerland
Grigore Rosu <http://fsl.cs.illinois.edu/index.php/Grigore_Rosu>, 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Cesar Sanchez <http://software.imdea.org/%7Ecesar/>, IMDEA Software 
Institute, Spain
Gerardo Schneider, <http://www.cse.chalmers.se/%7Egersch/> Chalmers 
Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden
Rahul Sharma <https://cs.stanford.edu/people/sharmar/>, Microsoft 
Research, India
Julien Signoles <http://julien.signoles.free.fr/index.en.html>, CEA 
LIST, France
Scott Smolka <http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/%7Esas/>, Stony Brook 
University, USA
Oleg Sokolsky <https://www.cis.upenn.edu/%7Esokolsky/>, University of 
Pennsylvania, USA
Bernhard Steffen 
<http://ls5-www.cs.tu-dortmund.de/cms/de/mitarbeiter/prof/Bernhard_Steffen.html>, 
University of Dortmund, Germany
Scott Stoller <http://www3.cs.stonybrook.edu/%7Estoller/>, Stony Brook 
University, USA
Volker Stolz <http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/personer/vit/stolz/>, University 
of Olso, Norway
Frits Vaandrager <http://www.cs.ru.nl/%7Efvaan/>, Radboud University, 
Netherlands
Neil Walkinshaw 
<http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/informatics/people/neil-walkinshaw>, 
University of Leicester, UK
Chao Wang <http://www-bcf.usc.edu/%7Ewang626/>, University of Southern 
California, USA
Eugen Zalinescu <http://www2.in.tum.de/hp/Main?nid=315>, Technische 
Universitat München, Germany

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