The ISoLA Symposium is a forum for developers, users, and researchers to discuss issues related to the adoption and use of rigorous tools for the specification, analysis, verification, certification, construction, test, and maintenance of systems from the point of view of their different application domains. To bridge the gap between designers and developers of (formal methods based) rigorous tools, and users in engineering and in other disciplines, it fosters and exploits synergetic relationships among scientists, engineers, software developers, decision makers, and other critical thinkers.

In particular, by providing a venue for the discussion of common problems, requirements, algorithms, methodologies, and practices, ISoLA aims at supporting researchers in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, flexibility and efficiency of tools for building systems and users in their search of adequate solutions to their problems. Applications and case studies with a conceptual message and experience papers with a clear link to tool construction are all encouraged.

The Symposium features invited Thematic tracks and sessions containing Research, Survey, Experience, Panel and Tool contributions on the:

Use of Techniques for Application Areas
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*Deduction and model-checking
*System construction and transformation
*Program analysis and verification
*Composition and refinement
*Testing and test-case generation
*Hybrid and safety-critical systems
*Model-based testing and automata learning
*Automotive and mechanical engineering
*Biomechanics, biocomputing
*Electrical engineering, embedded systems, and controllers
*Healthcare and ambient assisted living
*Telecommunications, Internet applications, mobile computing
*Transportation and aviation
*Transformation & processing-oriented industries
*Machine Automation

Track Themes and Thematic Sessions
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*Correctness-by-Construction and Post-hoc Verification: friends or foes?
*Static and Runtime Verification: Competitors or Friends?
*Testing the Internet of Things
*Rigorous Engineering of Collective Adaptive Systems
*RVE: Runtime Verification and Enforcement, the (industrial) application perspective
*ModSyn-PP: Modular Synthesis of Programs and Processes
*Variability modelling for scalable software evolution
*Statistical Model Checking
*Detecting and Understanding Software Doping
*Formal Methods and Safety Certification: Challenges in the Railways Domain
*Semantic heterogeneity in the formal development of complex systems

Associated Events
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*"International School on Tool-based Rigorous Engineering of Software Systems “-STRESS 2016
*Challenge on Rigorous Examination of Reactive Systems (RERS 2016)
*Doctoral Symposium with Poster Session and Postconference Proceedings in Springer’s CCIS
*Industrial Day

Publication
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*All accepted contributions will be published in the Symposiums’ LNCS Proceedings (Springer Verlag). Selected contributions will be invited to the Innovations in *Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (Springer Verlag, London), to *Thematic Sections in STTT (Springer Verlag, Heidelberg) or to the newly founded LNCS Transactions on Foundations for Mastering Change (FoMaC).

Deadlines
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*Abstract Submission: 25 Apr, 2016
*Paper Submission: 15 Apr, 2016 02 May, 2016
*Notification: 31 May, 2016 10 Jun, 2016
*Final Version: 10 Jul, 2016
*Early Registration: TBA