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FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended deadline



International Conference on

Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD)

Mountain View, CA, USA, October 3-6, 2016



http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/hunt/FMCAD/FMCAD16/index.shtml



IMPORTANT DATES



Abstract Submission:            May 09, 2016

Paper Submission:               May 16, 2016

Author Response Period:         June 17-21, 2016

Author Notification:            July 09, 2016

Camera-Ready Version:           Aug 09, 2016



All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anytime on Earth)



FMCAD Tutorial Day:            October 3, 2016

FMCAD Regular Program:         October 4-6, 2016





CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION



FMCAD 2016 is the sixteenth in a series of conferences on the theory

and applications of formal methods in hardware and system

verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in

academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking

methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning

formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of

computer-aided system design including verification, specification,

synthesis, and testing.



FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are

distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition,

published articles are made available freely on the conference page;

the authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At

least one of the authors is required to register for the conference

and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD

submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the

journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD).





TOPICS OF INTEREST



FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on

advances in all aspects of formal methods technology and its

application to computer- aided design. Topics of interest include (but

are not limited to):



-- Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction

    and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit-

    and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive

    methods and decision procedures.



-- Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions,

    modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal

    semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design

    derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods.



-- Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and

    non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software,

    including timing and power modeling, verification of computing
    systems
  on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and
    verification for
  embedded and cyberphysical systems, hardware-
    software co-design and
  verification, transaction-level verification.



-- Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods

    to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification

    enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the

    automation of formal methods.



-- Application of formal methods in areas beyond computer systems,

    including formal methods describing processes studied in other areas

    of science, engineering, and humanities.



-- (New) Application of formal methods to verifying safety,

    connectivity and security properties of networks and distributed

    systems.





SUBMISSIONS



Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair, at



https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad2016



Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case

Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational

ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing

methods etc, along with experimental impact validation where

applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the

design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology

in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and

its impact on design processes.



Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE

Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size.

Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4

pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either

category. Authors will be required to select the appropriate paper

category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an

optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the

paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the

relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix.



Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has

not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for

publication.  Any partial overlap with published or concurrently

submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results

are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide adequate

access to their data, at submission time, so that results can be

independently verified.





FMCAD 2016 COMMITTEES



Program Committee:



Pranav Ashar                 Real Intent

Domagoj Babic                Google

Armin Biere                  Johannes Kepler University Linz

Roderick Bloem               Graz University of Technology

Ahmed Bouajjani              University of Paris

Gianpiero Cabodi             Politecnico di Torino

Leonardo de Moura            Microsoft Research

Michael Emmi                 IMDEA Software Institute

Malay Ganai                  Synopsys

Arie Gurfinkel               SEI, Carnegie Mellon University

Ziyad Hanna                  Cadence Design System

Fei He                       Tsinghua University

Keijo Heljanko               Aalto University

Warren Hunt                  University of Texas Austin

Himanshu Jain                Synopsys

Gerwin Klein                 NICTA and UNSW

Shuvendu Lahiri              Microsoft Research

Rebekah Leslie-Hurd          Intel

Panagiotis Manolios          Northeastern University

Kenneth McMillan             Microsoft Research

John O'Leary                 Intel

Lee Pike                     Galois, Inc.

Ruzica Piskac                Yale University

Ahmed Rezine                 Linköping University

Sean Safarpour               Synopsys

Divjyot Sethi                CISCO

Natasha Sharygina            University of Lugano

Sharon Shoham                Tel Aviv

Muralidhar Talupur           FormalSim Inc (co-chair)

Michael Tautschnig           Queen Mary University of London

Shobha Vasudevan             University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Helmut Veith                 Technische Universität Wien (co-chair)

Tomas Vojnar                 Brno University of Technology

Chao Wang                    Virginia Tech

Eran Yahav                   Technion

Florian Zuleger              Technische Universität Wien





Program chairs:



Ruzica Piskac, Yale University

Muralidhar Talupur, FormalSim Inc

Helmut Veith, Technische Universität Wien





Publication Chair:



Florian Zuleger, Technische Universität Wien





Local Arrangements Chair & Webmaster:



Sean Safarpour, Synopsys

Divjyot Sethi, CISCO

Jens Katelaan, TU Wien





FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE



Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria

Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada

Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech