CfP: 12th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2020)

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     The Twelfth NASA Formal Methods Symposium     

 https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2020/

                   11 - 15 May 2020                   

        NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

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Theme of the Symposium:

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The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and the aerospace industry requires advanced techniques that address their specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry, with the goal of identifying challenges and providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such critical systems.

New developments and emerging applications like autonomous on-board Software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. The focus of these symposiums are on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle.

Topics of Interest:

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We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others.

• Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis

• Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving

• Run-time verification

• Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, such as abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and/or distributed techniques

• Code generation from formally verified models

• Safety cases and system safety

• Formal approaches to fault tolerance

• Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques

• Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems

• Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development

• Applications of formal methods in the development of:

• autonomous systems

• safety-critical artificial intelligence systems

• cyber-physical, cyber-security, embedded, and hybrid systems

• fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems

• Use of formal methods in:

• assurance cases

• human-machine interaction analysis

• requirements generation, specification, and validation

• automated testing and verification

Important Dates:

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Abstract Submission:  12 Dec 2019

Paper Submission:    19 Dec 2019

Paper Notifications: 20 Feb 2020

Camera-ready Papers: 27 Mar 2020

Symposium:          11-15 May 2020

Location & Cost:

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The symposium will take place in Building 3, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA,USA, May 11--15, 2020.

There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees must register.

Organizers:

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Dimitra Giannakopoulou (General Chair)

Anastasia Mavridou (General Chair)

Ritchie Lee (PC Chair)

Susmit Jha (PC Chair)

Maxime Arthaud (Local Organization)

Hamza Bourbouh (Local Organization)