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CALL FOR PAPERS
26th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract
Interpretation
VMCAI 2025
January 20-21, 2025
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**VMCAI 2025** is the 26th International Conference on Verification, Model
Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. The conference will be held during
January 20-21, 2025. VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the
communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation,
facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid
methods that combine these and related areas.
### Scope
The program will consist of refereed research papers as well as invited
lectures and tutorials. Research contributions can report new results as well
as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Program Verification
- Model Checking
- Abstract Interpretation
- Abstract Domains
- Program Synthesis
- Static Analysis
- Type Systems
- Deductive Methods
- Program Logics
- First-Order Theories
- Decision Procedures
- Interpolation
- Horn Clause Solving
- Program Certification
- Separation Logic
- Probabilistic Programming and Analysis
- Error Diagnosis
- Detection of Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities
- Program Transformations
- Hybrid and Cyber-physical Systems
- Concurrent and Distributed Systems
- Analysis of Numerical Properties
- Analysis of Smart Contracts
- Analysis of Neural Networks
- Case Studies on all of the above topics
Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent,
constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming.
### Important Dates AoE (UTC-12)
- **October 1, 2024 AOE**: Paper submission deadline (extended).
- **November 8, 2024**: Notification
- **November 22, 2024**: Camera-ready version due
### Submissions
Submissions are required to follow Springer’s LNCS format. The page limit
depends on the paper’s category (see below). In each category, additional
material beyond the page limit may be placed in a clearly marked appendix, to
be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final
version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be
found at the Springer website. Submission is via EasyChair. Note: submissions
will open on August 26th.
All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer
Science series. The corresponding author of each paper will need to complete
and sign a License-to-Publish form to be submitted together with the
camera-ready version.
Submissions will undergo a single-blind review process. Submissions should not
be anonymized for the purposes of review. There will be three categories of
papers: regular papers, tool papers, and case studies. Papers in each category
have a different page limit and will be evaluated differently.
**Regular papers** clearly identify and justify an advance to the field of
verification, abstract interpretation, or model checking. Where applicable,
they are supported by experimental validation. Regular papers are restricted to
20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references.
**Tool papers** present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions
to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical
foundations with relevant citations and emphasize the design and implementation
concerns, including software architecture and core data structures. A regular
tool paper should give a clear account of the tool’s functionality, discuss the
tool’s practical capabilities with reference to the type and size of problems
it can handle, describe experience with realistic case studies, and where
applicable, provide a rigorous experimental evaluation. Papers that present
extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or
extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool,
preferably substantiated by data on enhancements in terms of resources and
capabilities. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly
available and submit an artifact. Tool papers are restricted to 12 pages in
LNCS format, not counting references.
**Case studies** are expected to describe the use of verification, model
checking, and abstract interpretation techniques in new application domains or
industrial settings. Papers in this category do not necessarily need to present
original research results but are expected to contain novel applications of
formal methods techniques as well as an evaluation of these techniques in the
chosen application domain. Such papers are encouraged to discuss the unique
challenges of transferring research ideas to a real-world setting and reflect
on any lessons learned from this technology transfer experience. Case study
papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references.
(Shorter case study papers are also welcome.)
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Ashutosh Trivedi
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder
Boulder, Colorado 80309
