Call for Papers
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission of abstract (full papers): 15th June 2015 (5th June 2015)
Submission of full papers: 19th June 2015 (12th June 2015)
Notification (full papers): 14th July 2015
Submission of research idea papers: 10th August 2015 (7th August 2015)
Submission of student grant application: 10th August 2015 (7th August 2015)
Notification (research idea & student grant application): 14th August 2015
Early registration: 18th August 2015
Submissions of final versions: 21st August 2015
INVITED SPEAKERS
Colin O'Halloran (D-RisQ & the University of Oxford)
Don Sannella (Contemplate & the University of Edinburgh)
SPONSORS
Formal Methods Europe (FME)
The Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)
D-RisQ Software Systems
Altran
BACKGROUND
The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2015
is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members
of the international research community on tools and techniques for the
verification of critical systems.
SCOPE
The subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers
all aspects of automated verification, including model checking,
theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation,
and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which
need to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical,
business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that
describe different techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged.
The technical programme will consist of invited and contributed talks
and also allow for short presentations of research ideas. The workshop
will be relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion where special
discussion sessions will be organised around the research ideas presentations.
Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Model Checking
- Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving
- SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification
- Abstract Interpretation
- Specification and Refinement
- Requirements Capture and Analysis
- Verification of Software and Hardware
- Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience
- Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems
- Dependable Systems
- Verified System Development
- Industrial Applications
WORKSHOPS
AI4FM 2015: 1 September 2015 -- www.ai4fm.org/ai4fm-2015/
VENUE
The event will be held in the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences
(ICMS) in the centre of the historic old town of Edinburgh - an UNESCO world
heritage site.
STUDENT GRANTS
Thanks to student sponsorships from Altran, FME and SICSA we can offer financial support for a
limited number of students registering for AVoCS in the form of a registration
fee waiver (full or partial). As this is limited, we ask the students that
would like to take the advantage of this support to submit a short application.
The details on how to apply will be available in due course from the AVoCS
webpage.
SUBMISSION DETAILS
Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have been published
or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions
will be peer-reviewed and judged on the basis of originality, contribution
to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the
workshop. Submissions are handled via Easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2015
The papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages and should
use the dedicated AVoCS 2015 EASST template available rom the the
following link (for LaTeX and Word):
http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/eceasst
AVoCS also encourages the submissions of research ideas in order to stimulate
discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work
published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select
research ideas on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance
and general interest. Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed
2 pages using the EASST template. The presentation of these ideas will be organised
around discussions, where the presenter should also prepare a set of question in
which the audience will discuss.
PROCEEDINGS
At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a Heriot-Watt
University Technical Report; this report will also include the research ideas.
After the workshop, the authors of accepted full papers will have about one
month in order to revise their papers for publication in the workshop post-
proceedings which will appear in the Electronic Communications of the EASST
Open Access Journal. Research ideas will not be part of the proceedings in the
Open Access Journal.
SPECIAL SCP JOURNAL ISSUE
Authors of a selection of the best papers presented at the workshop will be
invited to submit extended versions of their work for publication in a
special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer Programming.