CALL FOR PAPERS

Workshop on High-Consequence Control Verification

http://www.sandia.gov/hccv/

July 18, 2016 - Toronto, Ontario, Canada

In conjunction with the 28th International Conference on Computer Aided
Verification (venue and registration information will be available at
http://i-cav.org/2016/).


DATES

Paper submission (6 pages maximum): April 21, 2016 (final extension)
Notification: May 12, 2016
Final version: June 9, 2016
Workshop: July 18, 2016


SCOPE

The Workshop on High-Consequence Control Verification (HCCV) focuses on formal
methods concepts and techniques to ensure the highest levels of reliability,
safety, and security for digitally controlled devices, including the effects
of possibly extreme physical environments. The workshop targets applications
where the severe consequences of failure justify extraordinary investments not
appropriate for less critical devices -- including special methodologies at
the design stage to enable verifying stringent reliability, safety, and
security requirements in the resulting devices under both nominal and
out-of-nominal (fault) conditions. Such needs exist in domains including
defense, medical devices, and scientific instrumentation.

The willingness to make greater investments for small but high-consequence
devices can provide an opportunity to leverage emerging, more powerful formal
methods techniques that may currently be considered too costly for
"mainstream" industrial applications. Novel ideas for design and analysis
techniques that promote in-depth verifiability are of strong interest for
these high-consequence digital controllers. The HCCV workshop offers a new
forum for engagement among formal methods researchers, tool developers, and
practitioners.

Topics of interest include:

* Theory and techniques for formally verified high-consequence digital
  design (via model checking and/or theorem proving), such as:
    - Abstraction/refinement
    - Correct-by-construction synthesis
    - Exhaustive or probabilistic analysis of fault consequences
    - Incorporation of analog physics

* Applications to safety-critical digitally controlled devices in domains
  such as:
    - Defense
    - Medical
    - Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)

Important notes:

* Submissions should target requirements for high-consequence devices, *not*
  general-purpose software verification or cybersecurity.

* Submissions should target mathematical analyzability of designs, *not
  merely* testing- and simulation-based verification or the use of standard
  electronic design automation (EDA) tools.


SUBMISSION

Papers of up to 6 pages, as PDF generated by LaTeX using EasyChair format
(http://www.easychair.org/publications/easychair.zip), should be submitted at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hccv2016 on or before April 21, 2016.
Submitted papers must represent original work and will be peer-reviewed. Each
accepted paper will be allotted an approximately 25-minute speaking slot. The
collection of accepted papers will be made available for download from the
workshop website.


ORGANIZERS

Jackson R. Mayo (co-chair)
Sandia National Laboratories
Livermore, California, United States
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Michael J. Butler (co-chair)
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
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