NFM 2015CALL FOR PARTICIPATION The 7th NASA Formal Methods Symposium http://www.NASAFormalMethods.org/nfm2015 <http://www.nasaformalmethods.org/nfm2015> 27 – 29 April 2015 Pasadena, California, USA THEME The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission- and safety-critical systems require advanced techniques that address their specification, verification, validation, and certification. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum for theoreticians and practitioners from academia, industry, and government, 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. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Model checking - Theorem proving - SAT and SMT solving - Symbolic execution - Static analysis - Runtime verification - Systematic testing - Program refinement - Compositional verification - Modeling and specification formalisms - Model-based development - Model-based testing - Requirement engineering - Formal approaches to fault tolerance - Security and intrusion detection - Applications of formal methods INVITED SPEAKERS Dino Distefano <http://www.eecs.qmul.ac.uk/~ddino/> Software Engineer at Facebook, California, USA and Professor at Queen Mary University of London, UK. Viktor Kuncak <http://lara.epfl.ch/~kuncak/> Leads Lab for Automated Reasoning and Analysis at EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland. Rob Manning <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/rob-manning/54/16a/71b> Chief Engineer at NASA/JPL. LOCATION, COST, REGISTRATION AND HOTEL ROOM BOOKING The symposium will take place at the Hilton Hotel, Pasadena, California, USA, April 27-29, 2015. There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend; however, all attendees must register (but please only register if you intend to attend). Registration form and hotel booking websites are reachable from the main website. A block of rooms at a low price are reserved with booking deadline of March 26. PC CHAIRS Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA PUBLICITY SUPPORT Ylies Falcone, Université Joseph Fourier, France PROGRAMME COMMITTEE Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center, USA Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG/UJF, France Dirk Beyer, University of Passau, Germany Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy Leonardo de Moura, Microsoft Research, USA Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Dawson Engler, Stanford University, USA Jean-Christophe Filliatre, Université Paris-Sud, France Dimitra Giannakopoulou, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Alwyn Goodloe, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Susanne Graf, VERIMAG, France Alex Groce, Oregon State University, USA Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria John Harrison, Intel Corporation, USA Mike Hinchey, University of Limerick/Lero, Ireland Bart Jacobs, University of Leuven, Belgium Sarfraz Khurshid, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Gerwin Klein, NICTA, Australia Daniel Kroening, Oxford University, UK Orna Kupferman, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Israel Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA Martin Leucker, University of Lubeck, Germany Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute, Germany Pete Manolios, Northeastern University, USA Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs/Alcatel-Lucent, USA Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center, USA Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg, Germany Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, USA Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center, USA Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa Mahesh Viswanathan, University of Illinois, USA Mike Whalen, University of Minnesota, USA Jim Woodcock, University of York, UK STEERING COMMITTEE Julia Badger, NASA Johnson Space Center Ewen Denney, NASA Ames Research Center Ben Di Vito, NASA Langley Research Center Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Gerard Holzmann, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Cesar Munoz, NASA Langley Research Center Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Research Center Suzette Person, NASA Langley Research Center Kristin Yvonne Rozier, NASA Ames Research Center