MEMOCODE'18
16th ACM-IEEE International Conference
on Formal Methods and Models
for System Design
http://memocode.irisa.fr/

October 15-18, 2018
Beijing, China


Important Dates
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- Abstract submission deadline: June 1, 2018 (extended deadline)
- Paper submission deadline: June 8, 2018 (extended deadline)
- Notification of acceptance: July 23, 2018
- Final version of papers: August 10, 2018
- Conference: October 15-18, 2018

MEMOCODE is a leading conference that brings together researchers and practitioners interested in formal methods for system design and development, research results, and lessons learned. The conference focuses on the foundations and applications of formal methods in the development of hardware, firmware, middleware, and application software for systems ranging from single embedded devices to highly networked Cyber-Physical Systems and the Internet of Things.


Topics of Interest
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MEMOCODE 2018 solicits research papers on formal methods in systems design that address the foundations, engineering methods, tools, or experimental case studies. Research areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- Modeling Languages, Methods and Tools
Programming languages and models; software and system modeling languages; architecture and high-level hardware description languages; timing models; model and program synthesis methods; model transformation methods
- Formal Methods and Tools
Correct-by-construction methods; contract-based design and verification; static, dynamic, and type theoretic analysis; verification; validation; probabilistic model checking; test generation; refinement-based and compositional approaches to design and verification
- Models and Methods for Developing Critical Systems
Fault-tolerant systems; security-critical and safety-critical systems; cyber-physical systems; hybrid systems; autonomous systems; self-adapting systems
- Quantitative/Qualitative Reasoning
Power/performance/cost/latency estimation methods; system models for quantitative design space exploration
- Formal Methods/Models in Practice
Design case studies; empirical case studies


Submissions
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MEMOCODE 2017 calls for three kinds of submissions: regular papers, work in progress papers, and tool presentations. All papers must be written in English and formatted according to the following IEEE Computer Society guidelines. Submission of papers is handled via Easychair.
- Regular papers must be less than 10 pages and describe original work that does not overlap with another publication or a submission under review or accepted for publication by any other conference or journal. Reviewers will check regular papers for the novelty of the proposed solution and the proofs given for the claims made.
- Work-in-progress papers must be less than 4 pages and describe ongoing work. Reviewers will judge the novelty of the idea, but do not yet expect proofs for the envisioned results.
- Tool papers must be less than 8 pages and should describe an existing and publicly available tool that implements relevant methods. The methods might have been published before, but the tool should not have been described in a tool paper previously. In addition to reviewing the paper, reviewers will assess the tool itself using inputs and a user's manual provided by the authors on the tool's web page.
For questions regarding technical submissions, feel free to contact one of the Program Committee co-chairs: Patricia Derler (patricia.derler@ni.com) and Sicun Gao (sicung@ucsd.edu).
All accepted papers (regular paper, WIP papers, and tool papers) will be published as IEEE conference proceedings with IEEE Xplore. Publication in the proceedings is contingent on one author registering for and presenting the paper at the conference. Selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems.


KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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We are excited to announce the following keynote speakers
- Kwangheun Yi, Seoul National University
- Wang Yi, Uppsala University
- Sanjit Seshia, University of California, Berkeley


MEMOCODE'18 Special Session
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Embedded workshop on formal methods in China's Industry

MEMOCODE'18 features a special session in the form of an embedded workshop, where engineers and architects from China's industry in domains such as aerospace, automotive, and railways, share their experiences using formal methods for system design. The special session will be introduced with the keynote presentation of Dr. Chen Gang, from China Aerospace, and followed by two sessions of invited presentations, addressing the wide variety of industry domains and formal models for analysis, verification, synthesis, certification employed in China.


Organization
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Program Chairs
- Patricia Derler, National Instruments
- Sicun Gao, UC San Diego

General Chairs
- Kai Hu, Beihang University
- Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Science

Organization Chairs
- Kai Hu, Beihang University
- Yushi Zhang, Nankai University

Finance Chair
- Jean-Pierre Talpin, INRIA


Program Committee
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Paul Attie, American University of Beirut
Bernd Becker, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg
Marco Bekooij, University Twente and NXP semiconductors
Shuvra Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland
Jani Boutellier, Tampere University of Technology
Jens Brandt, Hochschule Niederrhein
Mingsong Chen, East China Normal University
Silviu Craciunas, TTTech Computertechnik AG
Robert De Simone, INRIA
Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California
Stephen A., Edwards Columbia University
Mamoun Filali-Amine, IRIT
Martin Fränzle, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg
Franco Fummi, University of Verona
Abdoulaye Gamatie, CNRS
Angelo Gargantini, University of Bergamo
Marc Geilen, Eindhoven University of Technology
Fei He, Tsinghua University
John Koo, Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute
Axel Legay, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes
Elizabeth Leonard, Naval Research Laboratory
Xuandong Li, Nanjing University
Katell Morin-Allory, TIMA Laboratory
Thanhvu Nguyen, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Pierluigi Nuzzo, University of Southern California
John O'Leary, Intel
Claire Pagetti, ONERA
Roberto Passerone, University of Trento
Pavithra Prabhakar, Kansas State University
Murali Rangarajan, The Boeing Company
Indrakshi Ray, Colorado State University
Sanjai Rayadurgam, University of Minnesota
Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan
Partha Roop, The University of Auckland
Neda Saeedloei, The University of Texas at Dallas
Phillip Stanley-Marbell, University of Cambridge
Ji Wang, National University of Defense Technology
Bican Xia, Peking University
Fei Xie, Portland State University
Tuba Yavuz, University of Florida
Naijun Zhan, Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Paolo Zuliani, Newcastle University