SPIN 2019

Submission timeline

• 5 Apr 2019 Full paper AoE
• 27 Apr 2019 Notification

• 15 Jul 2019 Conference opens

What to submit

Format

16 pages + references (technical) / 6 pages (short) + references / 4 pages (tool demo)

Proceedings

Springer LNCS — Paywalled, for-profit

Collocated with ISSTA 2019. Best Paper awards will be given and announced at the conference. Selection of the best papers in a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Software Technology Transfer (STTT).

Call for papers

• As first published SPIN-2019.txt · TXT · shown below

The call, as published

Reproduced verbatim from the organisers’ announcement. The conference’s own page is at conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2019.

SPIN 2019
24th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software
Beijing, China, July 15-19, 2019
https://conf.researchr.org/home/spin-2019
Co-located with ISSTA 2019

The 26th edition of the SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software, but does not exclude analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

    Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of software
    Formal analysis for modeling languages, such as UML/state charts
    Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract
    Model checking
    Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT
    Verifying compilers
    Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques
    Static analysis and abstract interpretation
    Combination of verification techniques
    Modular and compositional verification techniques
    Verification of timed and probabilistic systems
    Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques
    Combination of static and dynamic analyses
    Derivation of specifications, test cases, or other useful material via formal analysis
    Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results
    Engineering and implementation of software verification and analysis tools
    Benchmark and comparative studies for formal verification and analysis tools
    Formal methods education and training
    Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to the symposium

Invited Speakers

Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University

Kuldeep S. Meel, National University of Singapore
Call for Papers

The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on concurrent software, but does not exclude analysis of sequential software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel algorithms, tool development, empirical evaluation, and education.

History: The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state model checking, specifically as related to the Spin model checker. However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly scoped symposium for software analysis using any automated techniques, including model checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution.

An overview of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: http://spinroot.com/spin/symposia.

SPIN 2019 will be organized as an ACM SIGSOFT event, colocated with the International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis (ISSTA 2019): https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-2019.
Submission Guidelines

The contributions to SPIN 2019 will be published as ACM Proceedings, and should be submitted in the ACM Conference Format: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template (please use the sigconf template).

Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this symposium. Authors are required to adhere to the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism and the ACM Policy on Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions.

    We are soliciting three categories of papers:
        Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete results (16 pages – references are not included in this limit);
        Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel contributions to formal methods (6 pages – references are not included in this limit).
        Tool Demo Papers presenting the foundations, capabilities, application domains and relevant examples using the tools, with a clear description of what is expected to be shown in a live demonstration (4 pages to describe the tool foundations, features and use examples, plus an appendix explaining the content of the demo).

Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2019 submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin19.

A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).
Important Dates

    Please keep in mind the following dates for submission:
        Paper Submission: April 5th, 2019 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth)
        Author Notification: April 27th, 2019
        Camera-Ready Paper: May 2019
        Symposium: July 15-19, 2019