HVC 2017

Submission timeline

• 28 Jul 2017 Full paper GMT 21 Jul 2017 → 28 Jul 2017 +7 days
• 1 Sep 2017 Notification

• 13 Nov 2017 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

16 pages LNCS (regular) / 6 pages (tool / experience)

Proceedings

Springer — Paywalled, for-profit

Deadline GMT. Organized by IBM Research - Haifa. Always in Haifa. Student grants available.

Call for papers

• After a deadline extension HVC-2017-extended.txt · TXT · shown below
• As first published HVC-2017.txt · TXT

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement, after a deadline extension. The conference’s own page is at www.research.ibm.com/haifa/conferences/hvc2017.

Thirteenth Haifa Verification Conference 2017
https://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/conferences/hvc2017
November 13 - 15, 2017
Tutorials: November 13, 2017
Haifa, Israel - Organized by IBM Research - Haifa
HVC Facebook page
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HVC is an annual conference dedicated to advancing the state-of the art
and state-of-the-practice in verification and testing. At the conference,
researchers and practitioners from academia and industry network, share
ideas, and ponder the future directions of testing and verification for
hardware, software, and complex hybrid systems.
The common goal of the conference topics and participants is to ensure the
correct functionality and performance of complex systems. HVC is the only
conference that brings together experts from all verification and testing
sub-fields, thereby encouraging the migration of methods and ideas among
domains.
HVC 2017 invites the submission of technical papers reporting original
research and experience results in all sub-fields of testing and
verification applicable to software and hardware. The conference includes
the presentation of peer-reviewed, original technical papers, as well as
lectures by guests from industry and academia.

Special theme this year: verification for security
In addition to the traditional HVC topics (see below), we plan at least
one session dedicated to the research and application of verification
techniques in security. At least one of our invited keynote talks will be
dedicated to this topic.
New this year: tool demos category
In addition to the research and poster sessions, we plan to hold a tool
demos session.
The conference proceedings will be published in Springer?s Lecture Notes
in Computer Science series (LNCS), and distributed in digital format to
registered conference participants.
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Keynote Speakers
Prof. Eli Ben-Sasson, Technion
Prof. Dino Distefano, Queen Mary, University of London
Prof. Subhasish Mitra, Stanford University
Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs, Nokia
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Tutorial Speakers
Dr. Dimitris E. Simos, SBA Research, Austria
Litan Ilany, Intel, Israel
Prof. Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada

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Important dates:
·       Submission deadline (all categories): July 21, 2017 - 11.59 pm GMT
 July 28, 2017 - 11.59 pm GMT
·       Author acceptance notification: September 1, 2017
·       Final manuscripts due: September 15, 2017
·       Conference: November 13 - 15, 2017
·       Tutorials: November 13, 2017
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Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
·       Simulation-based verification
·       Formal and semi-formal specification, modeling, and verification
·       Functional and non-functional software testing
·       Software and hardware equivalence checking
·       SAT/SMT-based verification algorithms
·       Static analysis
·       Model checking
·       High-level stimuli generation
·       Hardware/software co-verification
·       Cloud quality
·       Validation of data-intensive solutions
·       Validation of machine learning algorithms
·       Triage and debug technologies
·       Post-silicon validation including emulation and acceleration
·       Coverage analysis and test minimization
·       Testing of mobile and cloud applications
·       Software artifacts review and inspection
·       Test planning
·       Empirical studies on hardware and software quality
·       Security verification
·       Machine learning techniques for verification
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Submissions:
Detailed instructions for electronic submissions can be found on the HVC
conference web site. For additional information regarding paper
submissions, please contact the HVC program chair Ofer Strichman.
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Venue:
The lovely city of Haifa resides on a mountain overlooking the
Mediterranean Sea, and is home to Jews, Muslims, and Christians. Haifa is
also the world center of the Baha?i faith, and the wondrous Baha?i gardens
are a must-see attraction. The conference will be held at IBM Research -
Haifa, situated at the top of the Carmel mountains.
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Student grants:
We anticipate a number of student grants to cover part of the travel
expenses for full-time students who are authors of accepted papers.
Precedence in allocation of these travel grants will be to students who
are also presenting a poster at the conference.
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General chair: Rachel Tzoref-Brill (rachelt@il.ibm.com)
Program chair: Ofer Strichman (ofers@ie.technion.ac.il)
Local organization: Revivit Yankovich (revivity@il.ibm.com)
Publicity chair: Tali Rabetti (talis@il.ibm.com)
Tutorial chair: Tom Kolan (tomk@il.ibm.com)
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For more information, please refer to HVC2017 web page:
http://www.research.ibm.com/haifa/conferences/hvc2017