********************************************************************** 7th Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments July 18 - 19, 2015 San Francisco, California, USA http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/vstte15 Co-located with 25th Conference on Computer Aided Verification (http://i-cav.org/2015) ********************************************************************** Full Paper Submission Deadline: April 27, 2015 SCOPE: The Seventh Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich in 2005 followed by conferences in Toronto (2008), Edinburgh (2010), Philadelphia (2012), Atherton (2013), and Vienna (2014). The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art in the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. We welcome submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e., software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest include education, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification case-studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments. PAPER SUBMISSION Papers will be evaluated by at least three members of the Program Committee. We are accepting both long (limited to 16 pages) and short (limited to 10 pages) paper submissions, written in English. Short submissions also cover Verification Pearls describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions must be in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results, and comparison to existing work. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. Papers should be submitted through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2015. Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2015 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The use of LaTeX and the Springer LNCS class files, obtainable fromhttp://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, is strongly encouraged. PUBLICATION Accepted papers will be published as post-Proceedings, to appear in Springer's Lectures Notes in Computer Science. IMPORTANT DATES: Abstract submission: April 20, 2015 Full paper submission: April 27, 2015 Notification: June 8, 2015 ORGANIZATION: General Chair: Martin Schaef (SRI International) Program Chairs: Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) Sanjit A. Seshia (University of California, Berkeley) Publicity Chair: Daniel Bundala (UC Berkeley) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Elvira Albert (Complutense University of Madrid) Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research) Evan Chang (University of Colorado, Boulder) Ernie Cohen (University of Pennsylvania) Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (Toyota) Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore) Vijay D'Silva (Google) Vijay Ganesh (University of Waterloo) Alex Groce (Oregon State) Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University) (co-chair) Bill Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology) Chris Hawblitzel (Microsoft Research) Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Susmit Jha (United Technologies) Rajeev Joshi (Laboratory for Reliable Software, Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Vladimir Klebanov, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, DE Akash Lal (Microsoft Research India) Ruzica Piskac (Yale) Zvonimir Rakamaric (University of Utah) Kristin Yvonne Rozier (University of Cincinnati) Sanjit A. Seshia (UC Berkeley) (co-chair) Natarajan Shankar (SRI) Carsten Sinz (KIT) Nishant Sinha (IBM Research Labs) Alexander Summers (ETH Zurich) Zachary Tatlock (University of Washington) Sergey Tverdyshev (Sysgo AG) Arnaud Venet (CMU / NASA Ames Research Center) Karen Yorav (IBM Haifa Research Lab) ********************************************************************** Please contact vstte2015@easychair.org for further information **********************************************************************