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The Eleventh NASA Formal Methods Symposium
https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/pages/nfm2019.html
7 - 9 May 2019
Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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Theme of the Symposium:
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The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and
safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require
advanced techniques that address these systems' specification, design,
verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA
Formal Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration
between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and
industry. NFM's goals are to identify challenges and to provide
solutions for achieving assurance for such critical systems.
New developments and emerging applications like autonomous software for
uncrewed deep space human habitats, caretaker robotics, Unmanned Aerial
Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), and the need for
system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new
challenges for system specification, development, and verification
approaches. The focus of these symposiums are on formal techniques and
other approaches for software assurance, including their theory, current
capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to
aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems
during all stages of the software life-cycle.
The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is an annual event organized by the
NASA Formal Methods (NFM) Steering Committee, comprised of researchers
spanning several NASA centers. NFM 2019
(https://robonaut.jsc.nasa.gov/R2/pages/nfm2019.html) is being
co-organized by Rice University and NASA- Johnson Space Center in
Houston, TX.
Topics of Interest:
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We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together
formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic
reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum
computing among others.
* Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking,
and static analysis
* Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving
* Use of formal methods in software and system testing
* Run-time verification
* Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, such as
abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as
parallel and/or distributed techniques
* Code generation from formally verified models
* Safety cases and system safety
* Formal approaches to fault tolerance
* Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods
techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded
systems
* Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development
* Correct-by-design controller synthesis
* Formal assurance methods to handle adaptive systems
Important Dates:
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Abstract Submission: 7 Dec 2018
Paper Submission: 14 Dec 2018
Paper Notifications: 22 Feb 2019
Camera-ready Papers: 22 Mar 2019
Symposium: 7-9 May 2019
Location & Cost:
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The symposium will take place in the McMurtry Auditorium, Rice
University, Houston, Texas, USA, May 7--9, 2019.
There will be no registration fee for participants. All interested
individuals, including non-US citizens, are welcome to attend, to listen
to the talks, and to participate in discussions; however, all attendees
must register.
Organizers:
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Moshe Y. Vardi (General Chair)
Julia Badger (PC Chair)
Kristin Yvonne Rozier (PC Chair)
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