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Call for Papers
RV 2020: 20th International Conference on Runtime Verification
Los Angeles, CA, USA, October 6-9, 2020
https://rv20.ait.ac.at
NEW THIS YEAR: Special track on RV for Autonomy
NEW THIS YEAR: Poster and demo session (separate call will follow)
20th BIRTHDAY THIS YEAR: RV will celebrate its 20th birthday in a special way.
INVITED SPEAKERS
- Raj Rajkumar – Carnegie Mellon University
- Tom Henzinger – IST Austria
- Michael Ernst - Amazon
SCOPE
Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the
runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification
techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness;
they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to
conventional testing and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal
verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for
testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for
ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment
and recovery as well as online system repair.
Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
- specification languages for monitoring
- monitor construction techniques
- program instrumentation
- logging, recording, and replay
- combination of static and dynamic analysis
- specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces
- monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems
- runtime checking of privacy and security policies
- metrics and statistical information gathering
- program/system execution visualization
- fault localization, containment, recovery and repair
- dynamic type checking and assurance cases
- runtime verification for autonomy and runtime assurance
Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems,
safety/mission critical systems, enterprise and systems software, cloud
systems, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and
diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy.
PAPERS
There are four categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short,
tool demo, and benchmark papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at
least 3 members of the Program Committee.
- Regular Papers (up to 16 pages, not including references) should
present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system
papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on
runtime verification.
- Short Papers (up to 8 pages, not including references) may
present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example
emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and
applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and
other domains.
- Tool Demonstration Papers (up to 8 pages, not including
references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel
extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. The paper must
include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental
results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical
background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make
their tools and benchmarks available with their submission.
- Benchmark papers (up to 8 pages, not including references)
should describe a benchmark, suite of benchmarks, or benchmark generator useful
for evaluating RV tools. Papers should include information as to what the
benchmark consists of and its purpose (what is the domain), how to obtain and
use the benchmark, an argument for the usefulness of the benchmark to the
broader RV community and may include any existing results produced using the
benchmark. We are interested in both benchmarks pertaining to real-world
scenarios and those containing synthetic data designed to achieve interesting
properties. Broader definitions of benchmark e.g. for generating specifications
from data or diagnosing faults are within scope. We encourage benchmarks that
are tool agnostic, especially if they have been used to evaluate multiple
tools. We also welcome benchmarks that contain verdict labels and with rigorous
arguments for correctness of these verdicts, and benchmarks that are
demonstrably challenging with respect to the state-of-the-art tools. Benchmark
papers must be accompanied by an easily accessible and usable benchmark
submission. Papers will be evaluated by a separate benchmark evaluation panel
who will assess the benchmarks relevance, clarity, and utility as communicated
by the submitted paper.
- SPECIAL TRACK ON RV FOR AUTONOMY: Runtime Verification is of
special importance in systems that have a high degree of autonomy. This
includes applications such as self-driving cars, vehicles equipped with
automated driver assistance systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, robotic vehicles
used in hostile and uncertain environments (e.g. underwater, space, etc.),
general-purpose service robots, human-in-the-loop medical devices, etc. This
year, we specifically solicit papers that focus on RV for autonomy with the
goal of having a special session on autonomy. Papers in this category will be
subject to the same review process as other submissions, and can be regular
papers, short papers, tool demonstrations papers, or benchmark papers.
The Program Committee of RV 2020 will give a Springer-sponsored best paper
award to the eligible regular papers.
SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE: The Program Committee of RV 2020 will invite a selection
of accepted papers to submit extended versions to a special issue of the
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).
TUTORIAL TRACK
Tutorials are two-to-three-hour presentations on a selected topic.
Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of up to
20 pages in the LNCS conference proceedings. A proposal for a tutorial must
contain the subject of the tutorial, a proposed timeline, a note on previous
similar tutorials (if applicable) and the differences to this incarnation, and
a biography of the presenter. The proposal must not exceed 2 pages. Tutorial
proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee.
SUBMISSIONS
All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS
volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style
detailed here:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere.
Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format)
using the EasyChair submission page here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv20
The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude
references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included
in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of
reviewers, but not included in the proceedings.
At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2020 to
present.
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission: May 18, 2020
Paper submission: May 25, 2020
Author notification: July 24, 2020
Camera-ready version: August 7, 2020
Conference: October 6-9, 2020
PC CHAIRS
Jyotirmoy Deshmukh, University of Southern California
Dejan Ničković, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
POSTER AND DEMO CHAIR
Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University
PC MEMBERS
Houssam Abbas, Oregon State University
Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology
Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology
Nicolas Basset, VERIMAG
Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Iowa State University
Chih-Hong Cheng, Denso
Katherine Driggs Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Georgios Fainekos, Arizona State University
Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes/INRIA Grenoble
Chuchu Fan, MIT
Lu Feng, University of Virginia
Thomas Ferrère, Imagination House
Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University
Sebastian Fischmeister, University of Waterloo
Dana Fisman, Ben Gurion University
Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta
Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology
Sylvain Hallé, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL
Stefan Jakšić, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology
Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences
Jim Kapinski, Amazon
Safraz Khurshid, University of Texas at Austin
Bettina Könighofer, TU Graz
Martin Leucker, University of Lübeck
Chung-Wei Lin, National Taiwan University
David Lo, Singapore Management University
Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca
Nicolas Markey, INRIA/Irisa
Laura Nenzi, University of Trieste
Gordon Pace, University of Malta
Nicola Paoletti, University of London
Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University
Giles Reger, University of Manchester
Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University
César Sánchez, IMDEA
Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers University of Technology
Julien Signoles, CEA LIST
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania
Bernhard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund
Stefano Tonetta, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Hazem Torfah, University of California at Berkeley
Dmitriy Traytel, ETHZ
Dogan Ulus, Samsung
STEERING COMMITTEE
Howard Barringer, University of Manchester
Ezio Bartocci, Technical University of Vienna
Saddek Bensalem, Verimag and University Grenoble-Alpes
Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes/INRIA Grenoble
Klaus Havelund, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Martin Leucker, University of Lübeck
Giles Reger, University of Manchester
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania
Dejan Ničković
Senior Scientist
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