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The Thirteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium
- 13th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM 2021)
- 24-28 May 2021
- Norfolk, VA, USA
The symposium will be held in an in-person/virtual hybrid format in Norfolk, VA, USA, possibly transitioning to fully virtual depending on the COVID-19 situation.
Theme of the Symposium
The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require advanced techniques that address these systems’ specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM’s goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous 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. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for both spacecraft and ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be 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.
The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Research Group, comprised of researchers spanning six NASA centers. NFM2021 is being organized by the NASA Langley Formal Methods Team.
Topics of Interest
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. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of formal methods:
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Advances in formal methods:
- Formal verification, model checking, and static analysis techniques
- Theorem proving: advances in interactive and automated theorem
proving (SAT, SMT, etc.) - Program and specification synthesis, code transformation and generation
- Run-time verification
- Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods
- Test case generation
- Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques
- Requirements generation, specification, and validation
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Integration of formal methods techniques:
- Use of machine learning techniques in formal methods
- Integration of formal methods into software engineering practices
- Integration of diverse formal methods techniques
- Combination of formal methods with simulation and analysis techniques
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Formal methods in practice:
- Experience report of application of formal methods in industry
- Use of formal methods in education
- Verification of machine learning techniques
- Applications of formal methods in the development of:
- autonomous systems,
- safety-critical systems,
- concurrent and distributed systems,
- cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems
- fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems
- human-machine interaction analysis
Important Dates
- Abstract Submission: 27 November 2020
- Paper Submission: 4 December 2020
- Paper Notifications: 19 February 2021
- Camera-ready Papers: 19 March 2021
- Symposium: 24-28 May 2021
Submission Details
There are two categories of submissions:
- Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results
(maximum 15 pages); - Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with
preliminary results (maximum 6 pages).
The submitted papers should not exceed 15 pages for regular papers and 6 pages for short papers, including tables and figures, but excluding bibliography and clearly marked appendices. The papers should be self-contained, as appendices will not be included in the published proceedings. In addition to appendices, authors are encouraged to make available any other supplementary material supporting the claims made in the paper, such as proof scripts or experimental data, as the availability and reproducibility of these artifacts may be considered by reviewers in scoring. All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the Program Committee in a single-blind reviewing format.
Papers will appear in the Formal Methods subline of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and must use LNCS style formatting (Conference Proceedings guidelines | Springer | Springer — International Publisher). Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: Log in to EasyChair for NFM 2021.
Authors of selected best papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in Springer’s Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering: A NASA Journal (Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering | Home).
Organizers
• Cesar Munoz, NASA, USA (General Co-Chair)
• Ivan Perez, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (General Co-Chair)
• Aaron Dutle, NASA, USA (PC Co-Chair)
• Mariano Moscato, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair)
• Laura Titolo, National Institute of Aerospace, USA (PC Co-Chair)
Program Committee
Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil
Julia Badger, NASA, USA
Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Research, USA
Jasmin Blanchette, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sylvie Boldo, INRIA, France
Alessandro Cimatti, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Misty Davies, NASA, USA
Gilles Dowek, INRIA / ENS Paris-Saclay, France
Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar, France
Alexandre Duret-Lutz, LRDE/EPITA, France
Gabriel Ebner, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Marco Feliu, National Institute of Aerospace, USA
Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France
Pierre-Loic Garoche, ENAC, France
Alwyn Goodloe, NASA, USA
John Harrison, Amazon Web Services, USA
Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Brian Jalaian, ARL / Virginia Tech, USA
Susmit Jha, SRI International, USA
Michael Lowry, NASA, USA
Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, USA
Paolo Masci, National Institute of Aerospace, USA
Anastasia Mavridou, SGT Inc. / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Stefan Mitsch, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Yannick Moy, AdaCore / INRIA, France
Natasha Neogi, NASA, USA
Laura Panizo, University of Malaga, Spain
Corina Pasareanu, CMU / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah, USA
Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia
Nicolas Rosner, Amazon Web Services, USA
Kristin-Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University, USA
Cristina Seceleanu, Malardalen University, Sweden
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA
Johann Schumann, SGT Inc./NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Tanner Slagel, NASA, USA
Marielle Stoelinga, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, USA
Caterina Urban, INRIA, France
Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France
Registration
Registration is required and free of charge.
Contact
Email: nfm2021 [at] easychair [dot] org
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