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Call for Papers
SEFM 2020
18th International Conference on
Software Engineering and Formal Methods
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 14-18 September 2020
https://event.cwi.nl/sefm2020/
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IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission deadline: Monday 27 April 2020 (AoE)
Paper submission deadline: Monday 4 May 2020 (AoE)
Paper notification: Friday 26 June 2020
Camera ready: Tuesday 7 July 2020 (AoE)
OVERVIEW AND SCOPE
SEFM aims to bring together leading researchers and practitioners
from academia, industry, and government, to advance the state of
the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the
software industry, and to encourage their integration within
practical software engineering methods and tools.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following
aspects of software engineering and formal methods:
# Software Development Methods
Formal modeling, specification, and design
Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse
# Design Principles
Programming languages
Domain-specific languages
Type theory
Abstraction and refinement
# Software Testing, Validation, and Verification
Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
Testing and runtime verification
Statistical and probabilistic analysis
Synthesis
Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional
properties
Other light-weight and scalable formal methods
# Security and Safety
Security, privacy, and trust
Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems
Software certification
# Applications and Technology Transfer
Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things
Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems
Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
Intelligent systems and machine learning
HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis
Education
# Case studies, best practices, and experience reports
PAPER SUBMISSION
We solicit two categories of papers:
Regular papers describing original research results, case studies,
or surveys. Regular papers should not exceed 15 pages, excluding
bibliography.
Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its
contributions. Tool papers should not exceed 6 pages (including
bibliography) and should include the URL of the tool.
All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted
concurrently for publication elsewhere. Paper submission is done
via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2020
Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer
LNCS papers (see http://www.springer.com/lncs).
PUBLICATION
All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference
that will be published as a volume in the Formal Methods sublime of
the Springer's LNCS series.
The authors of a selected subset of accepted papers will be invited
to submit extended versions of their papers to a journal special
issue.
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands)
Antonio Cerone (Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan)
CONTACT: sefm2020@easychair.org