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## Workshop: Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS)
#### A satellite workshop of Formal Methods 2019
https://autonomy-and-verification-uol.github.io/events/fmas
This one day workshop will bring together researchers working on a range of
techniques for formal verification of autonomous systems, to present recent
work in the area, discuss key difficulties, and stimulate collaboration between
the robotics and formal methods communities. This workshop will include invited
speakers, contributed papers, experience reports, and a discussion panel.
## Important Dates
* Submission: 7th of July 2019 (AOE
(https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe)) -- Extended
* Notification: 7th of August 2019 -- Extended
* Final Version due: 1st September 2019
* Workshop: 11th of October 2019
## Scope
Autonomous -- and Robotic -- Systems present unique challenges for formal
methods. They are embodied entities that can interact with the real world and
make autonomous decisions. Amongst others, they can be viewed as
safety-critical, cyber-physical, hybrid, and real-time systems. Key issues for
formal methods applied to autonomous systems include capturing how the system
will deal with a dynamic external environment and verification of the system's
decision making capabilities -- including planning, safety, ethical, and
reconfiguration choices. Some autonomous systems require certification before
deployment, others require public trust for wide adoption; both of these
scenarios are being tackled by formal methods.
The goals of this workshop are to bring together leading researchers in this
area to present recent and ongoing work, including experience reports and case
studies as well as identify future directions for this emerging application of
formal methods. This workshop is concerned with the use of formal methods to
specify, model, or verify autonomous or robotic systems, in whole or in part.
Submissions may focus on case studies that identify the challenges for formal
methods in this area, or experience reports that provide guidelines for
tackling these challenges. Work using integrated formal methods, or describing
the future directions of this field, are particularly welcome.
## Programme Information
The workshop will feature invited speakers and presentations of accepted
papers. The workshop will also feature a discussion panel for a structured,
whole-group conversation for scoping the future directions of formal methods
for autonomous systems.
Invited Speakers:
* Claudio Menghi, University of Luxembourg
* Kristin Y. Rozier, Iowa State University
## Submission Information
There are two categories of submission:
* Short papers -- 6 pages
* Long papers -- 15 pages
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Experience reports/case studies on applying formal methods to autonomous
and/or robotic systems
* Novel formal methods that can be applied to autonomous and/or robotic systems
* The modification of existing formal methods to suit autonomous and/or robotic
systems
* Future directions for formal methods for autonomous and/or robotic systems
Submission will be via easychair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmas2019, in LNCS format.
Each submission will receive at least three, single-blind reviews. If a paper
is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present
their work. Revised selected papers will be published in the upcoming FM 2019
Workshops LNCS volume.
## Chairs
* Marie Farrell (https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~marie), University of Liverpool, UK
* Michael Fisher (https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~michael), University of Liverpool,
UK
* Matt Luckcuck (https://cgi.csc.liv.ac.uk/~mattlck), University of Liverpool,
UK
