CALL FOR PAPERS *** Deadline extension: Nov 18, 2014 *** 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. Within NASA such systems include for example autonomous robots, separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, Next Generation Air Transportation (NextGen), and autonomous rendezvous and docking for spacecraft. Moreover, emerging paradigms such as property-based design, code generation, and safety cases are bringing with them new challenges and opportunities. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques, their theory, current capabilities, and limitations, as well as their application to aerospace, robotics, and other mission- and safety-critical systems in all design life-cycle stages. We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches marrying formal verification techniques with advances in critical system development, such as requirements generation, analysis of aerospace operational concepts, and formal methods integrated in early design stages and carrying throughout system development. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Model checking - Theorem proving - SAT and SMT solving - Symbolic execution - Static analysis - Runtime verification - 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 to aerospace systems - Applications of formal methods to cyber-physical systems - Applications of formal methods to human-machine interaction analysis 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. IMPORTANT DATESPaper Submission (*** deadline extended one week ***):18 Nov 2014Paper Notifications:12 Jan 2015Camera-ready Papers:9 Feb 2015Symposium:27 – 29 April 2015LOCATION AND COST 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 submit, to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register. SUBMISSION DETAILS There are two categories of submissions: 1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages) 2. Short papers describing tools, experience reports, or descriptions of work in progress with preliminary results (6 pages) All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the Programme Committee. Papers will appear in a volume of Springer’s Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and must use LNCS style formatting. Papers should be submitted in PDF format. 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