FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

NFM 2011

Third NASA Formal Methods Symposium

Pasadena, California, USA
April 18 - 20, 2011

http://lars-lab.jpl.nasa.gov/nfm2011


IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline : December 26, 2010
Notification of acceptance/rejection : January 28, 2011
Final version due : February 18, 2011
Conference : April 18-20, 2011


THEME

The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and
practitioners from academia, government and industry, with the goals
of identifying challenges and providing solutions to achieving
assurance in mission- and safety-critical systems. The focus of the
symposium is on formal methods, and aims to foster collaboration
between NASA researchers and engineers and the wider aerospace and
academic formal methods communities. The symposium will be comprised
of a mixture of invited talks by leading researchers and
practitioners, presentation of accepted papers, and panels.


TOPICS OF INTEREST

* Theorem proving
* Model checking
* Real-time, hybrid, stochastic systems
* SAT and SMT solvers
* Symbolic execution
* Abstraction
* Compositional verification
* Program refinement
* Static analysis
* Dynamic analysis
* Automated testing
* Model-based testing
* Model-based development
* Fault protection
* Security and intrusion detection
* Application experiences
* Modeling and specification formalisms
* Requirements specification and analysis


HISTORY

NFM 2011 is the third edition of the NASA Formal Methods Symposium,
organized by NASA on a yearly basis. The first in 2009 and was
organized at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, California. The
second in 2010 was organized at NASA head quarters, Washington
D.C. The symposium originated from the earlier Langley Formal Methods
Workshop series.


PAPER SUBMISSION

There are two categories of submissions:

* Regular paper: up to 15 pages, describing fully developed work and
complete results. Papers can present theory, software engineering aspects,
or case studies.

* Tool papers: up to 6 pages, describing an operational tool. The
authors of accepted tool papers will give demonstrations of their
tools in tool demo sessions. Tool papers should explain enhancements
that have been done compared to previously published work. A tool
paper does not need to present the theory behind the tool but can
focus more on its features, and how it is used, with screen shots and
examples.

All papers should be in English and describe original work that has
not been published or submitted elsewhere.

Submissions will be fully reviewed and the symposium proceedings will
appear as a volume in Lecture Notes of Computer Science. Papers must
use the LNCS style, and be in pdf format.


COSTS

There will be no registration fee charged to participants.


PROGRAMME CHAIRS

Mihaela Bobaru, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rajeev Joshi, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory


PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Tom Ball, Microsoft Research, USA
Howard Barringer, University of Manchester, UK
Saddek Bensalem, Verimag Laboratory, France
Nikolaj Bjoerner, Microsoft Research, USA
Eric Bodden, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany
Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland, USA
Dennis Dams, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska, USA
Cormac Flanagan, UC Santa Cruz, USA
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA
Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA
Radu Grosu, Stony Brook, USA
John Hatcliff, Kansas State University, USA
Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA
Mike Hinchey, Lero - the Irish SW. Eng. Research Centre, Ireland
Sarfraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Orna Kupferman, Jerusalem Hebrew University, Israel
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany
Kenneth McMillan, Cadence Berkeley Labs, USA
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley, USA
Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research, USA
Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Shaz Qadeer, Microsoft Research, USA
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Nicolas Rouquette, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Kristin Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center, USA
John Rushby, SRI International, USA
Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, USA
Koushik Sen, Berkeley University, USA
Sanjit Seshia, Berkeley University, USA
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA
Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, USA
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley, USA
Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA


STEERING COMMITTEE

Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center
Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center
Klaus Havelund, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley
Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center
James Rash, NASA Goddard
Kristin Y. Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center
Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley