May 6, 2025
Workshop on Formal Arguments for CPS Certification FACCT 2025
CPS IoT Week. Irvine, CA USA
Submission Deadline Extended Until March 2, 2025
The CPS (Cyber-Physical Systems) research community has created a large number of formal analysis methods that verify different properties of CPS. Unfortunately, while the analyses are proven to be correct by themselves, their combination and verification of assumptions are mostly left to the user. However, safety critical CPS used in practice require certification that can use all of these analyses if only its integration could be as formal as the analyses themselves. In this workshop we focus on the formal integration of analysis into sound arguments able to automate the discharging of certification claims.
This workshop is not only concerned about the creation and processing of formal arguments to integrate analyses from multiple domains but also the consumption of the arguments by certification authorities.
Topics of Interest Include but not limited to
Composition and integration of multiple formal arguments
Integration of formal arguments from different analysis domains
Automated verification and validation of certification claims
Arguments modularization
Incremental development of certification arguments
Reuse of certification arguments
Formal treatment of uncertainty in certification arguments
Automated generation of certification artifacts
Validation of argument assumptions
Traceability between models and requirements
Runtime behavioral constraints to meet constraints
Runtime behavioral isolation for modularization and cross-domain constraints
Model-Based verification and validation arguments
GenAI to support formal arguments
Types of Submission
Position Papers: submitted to the committee as extended abstracts that present positions on challenges and research directions. The extended abstract should be formatted in a double column ACM conference format with at most 2 pages in length.
Regular Innovation Papers: reporting innovations in the field. This should be formatted in double column ACM conference format with at most 6 pages.
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: March 2, 2025
Notification of Acceptance: March 7, 2025.