-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AVoCS 2018 Call for Papers 18th International Workshop on Automated Verification of Critical Systems Oxford University, UK, July 18-19, 2018 Website: http://avocs18.irisa.fr -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW The aim of the AVoCS workshop series 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. In particular, AVoCS 2018 aims to bring together scientists and engineers that are active in the area of formal methods, develop tools and techniques for the automated verification of critical systems, and are interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage of these methods and tools. 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 INVITED SPEAKERS We are please to announce the following invited talks: - Michael Emmi, SRI International, USA - Antoine Miné, Sorbonne Université, LIP6, France VENUE The event will at the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford. AVoCS is an affiliated event of FM 2018 and it will be hosted within FLoC 2018 (http://www.floc2018.org). FLoC is a federated conference of several international conferences related with mathematical logics and computer science, for example CAV, FSCD, ICLP, IJCAR, ITP and SAT. 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=avocs2018 The papers must be written in English and should not exceed 15 pages, not counting references and appendices, in Springer LNCS format. 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 Springer LNCS format. The presentation of these ideas will be organised around discussions, where the presenter should also prepare a set of questions in which the audience will discuss. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: April 10th, 2018 Paper submission: April 15th, 2018 Notification: May 15th, 2018 Final version of papers due: May 31st, 2018 AVoCS Conference: July 18-19th, 2018 FLoC Conference: July 6-19th, 2018 PROCEEDINGS At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a FLoC 2018 pre-proceedings; 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS, France Stefania Gnesi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Gregor Goessler, INRIA, France Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands Bart Jacobs, KU Leuven, Belgium Thierry Lecomte, ClearSy, France Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy/LORIA, France David Pichardie (co-chair), IRISA/ENS Rennes/Inria, France Andrew Reynolds, University of Iowa, USA Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK Mihaela Sighireanu (co-chair), University Paris Diderot, France Bernhard Steffen, University of Dortmund, Germany Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Maurice Ter Beek, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy Caterina Urban, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France Florian Zuleger, Vienna University of Technology, Austria STEERING COMMITTEE Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, UK Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, UK CONTACT All questions about submissions should be emailed to AVOCS'18 chairs.