[ecoop-info] RV 2017 - 3rd Call for papers and tutorial proposals + RV-CuBES contributions

Thu Mar 23 04:15:29 CET 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

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/~rfonseca/>, 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/~regerg/>, University of Manchester, UK

*Finance Chair*

Oleg Sokolsky <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sokolsky/>, University of
Pennsylvania, USA

*Publicity Chair*

Ayoub Nour <http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~nouri/>i, University Grenoble
Alpes, France

*Local Organisation Chairs*

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

*Program Committee*

Wolfgang Ahrendt <http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~ahrendt/>, Chalmers Univ. of
Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden
Cyrille Artho <https://people.kth.se/~artho/>, 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/~bensalem/>,  University of
Grenoble Alpes/VERIMAG, France
Eric Bodden <http://www.bodden.de/>, Fraunhofer SIT/Technische University
Darmstadt, 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/~grigory/about.html>, University
of Washington, USA
Lu Feng <https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~lufeng/>, University of Virginia, USA
Patrice Godefroid <https://patricegodefroid.github.io/>, Microsoft
Research, USA
Jean Goubault-Larrecq <http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/~goubault/>, CNRS/ENS de
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/~marieke/>, University of
Twente, Netherlands
Franjo Ivancic <https://sites.google.com/site/ivancic/>, Google, USA
Bengt Jonsson <http://user.it.uu.se/~bengt/>, 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/~kgl/>, Aalborg University, Denmark
Insup Lee <http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lee/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/~nouri/>, 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/~doronp/>, 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/~cesar/>, IMDEA Software
Institute, Spain
Gerardo Schneider, <http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~gersch/> 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/~sas/>, Stony Brook University,
USA
Oleg Sokolsky <https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~sokolsky/>, 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/~stoller/>, 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/~fvaan/>, 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/~wang626/>, University of Southern
California, USA
Eugen Zalinescu <http://www2.in.tum.de/hp/Main?nid=315>, Technische
Universitat München, Germany