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Third Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS 2021)
This two-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.
FMAS2021 will be held **online**, due to the ongoing disruption caused by
COVID-19, on the **21st and 22nd of October 2021**.
You can register to attend FMAS2021, for free, using our eventbrite page:
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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.
We are especially interested in work using integrated formal methods,
discussing the future directions of the field, using Runtime Verification or
other approaches to deal with the _reality gap_, the cross over of safety and
security, and verification of systems against safety assurance arguments or
standards documents.
Registration
This year, FMAS will be held **online** via a video conference system. We will
circulate details closer to the event, when the number of attendees is clearer.
You can register to attend FMAS2021, for free, using our eventbrite
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Invited Talks
We have two invited talks for FMAS 2021:
"Help or Hazard: Towards Verifying Autonomous Robot Systems" by Clare Dixon,
Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (UK)
"Understanding and Verifying Deep Neural Networks" by Divya Gopinath,
Researcher in Formal Verification in the Robust Software Engineering (RSE)
group at the NASA Ames Research Center
Chairs
Matt Luckcuck <[email protected]>, Maynooth University, Ireland
Marie Farrell <[email protected]>, Maynooth University, Ireland
