CAV Call for Papers

[Geoff Sutcliffe]

Call for Papers
27th International Conference on
Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2015)
July 18-24 2015, San Francisco, California
http://i-cav.org/2015/

Aims and Scope

CAV 2015 is the 27th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the 
theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for 
hardware and software systems.  CAV considers it vital to continue 
spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding 
to new domains such as biological systems and computer security. The 
conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete 
applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the 
algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The 
proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS 
series. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of 
Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

*    Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations
*    Hardware verification techniques
*    Deductive, compositional, and abstraction techniques for verification
*    Program analysis and software verification
*    Verification methods for parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
*    Testing and run-time analysis based on verification technology
*    Applications and case studies in verification
*    Decision procedures and solvers for verification
*    Mathematical and logical foundations of practical verification tools
*    Verification in industrial practice
*    Algorithms and tools for system synthesis
*    Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification
*    Verification techniques for security
*    Formal models and methods for biological systems

Paper Submission

Submissions should contain original research and sufficient detail to 
assess the merits and relevance of the contribution. We welcome papers 
on theory, case studies and comparisons with existing experimental 
research, tool papers, as well as combinations of new theory with 
experimental evaluation. Similar to last year, we welcome both long tool 
papers and short papers of any kind.

Tool papers should describe system and implementation aspects of a tool 
with a large (potential) user base (experiments not required, rehash of 
theory strongly discouraged). Papers describing tools that have already 
been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant 
and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented.

Submissions reporting on case studies in an industrial context are 
strongly invited, and should describe details, weaknesses, and strengths 
in sufficient depth. Papers reproducing and comparing existing results 
experimentally do not require new theoretical insights. Examples of 
contributions of such papers are evaluations of existing results in a 
superior experimental setting and comparisons of methods that have not 
previously been thoroughly experimentally compared.

Papers can be submitted in either a regular or a short format.

*    Regular Papers should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS format, not 
counting references.

*    Short Papers should not exceed 6 pages, not counting references. 
Short papers are encouraged for any subject that can be described within 
the page limit, and in particular for novel ideas without an extensive 
experimental evaluation. Accepted short papers will be accompanied by 
short presentations.

An appendix can provide additional material such as details on proofs or 
experiments. The appendix is not guaranteed to be read or taken into 
account by the reviewers and it should not contain information necessary 
for the understanding and the evaluation of the presented work. Papers 
will be accepted or rejected in the category in which they were 
submitted, there will be no demotions from a regular to a short paper.

Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or 
submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not 
allowed.

The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors 
will have the option to respond to reviewer comments. The PC chairs may 
solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period.

Papers must be submitted in PDF format. Submission is done via EasyChair.

Deadlines

Deadlines are anywhere on earth

*    Abstract submission: January 30 2015
*    Paper submission (firm): February 6 2015
*    Author feedback/rebuttal period: March 23-26 2015
*    Notification of acceptance/rejection: April 17 2015
*    Final version due: May 1 2015

Chairs

Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK.
Corina Pasareanu, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley/NASA Ames, USA.

Program Committee

Aws Albarghouthi, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Jade Alglave, University College London, UK
Domagoj Babic, Google, USA
Clark Barrett, New York University, USA
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology, Austria
Ahmed Bouajjani, LIAFA, University Paris Diderot, France
Marius Bozga, Verimag/CNRS, France
Aaron Bradley, Mentor Graphics, USA
David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Tevfik Bultan, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Krishnendu Chatterjee, Institute of Science and Technology (IST), Austria
Swarat Chaudhuri, Rice University, USA
Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
Hana Chockler, King's College London
Byron Cook, Microsoft Research, USA
Isil Dillig, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Dino Distefano, Facebook, UK
Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College London, UK
Azadeh Farzan, University of Toronto, Canada
Antonio Filieri, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Jasmin Fisher, Microsoft Research, UK
Indradeep Ghosh, Fujitsu Labs of America, USA
Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA
Aarti Gupta, USA
Arie Gurfinkel, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon 
University, USA
Gerard Holzmann, NASA/JPL, USA
Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego, USA
Barbara Jobstmann, EPFL and Cadence Design Systems, Switzerland
Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen University, Germany/University of 
Twente, the Netherlands
Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK (chair)
Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK
Akash Lal, Microsoft Research, India
Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA
Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs, USA
David Parker, University of Birmingham, UK
Corina Pasareanu, CMU/NASA Ames Research Center, USA (chair)
Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Zvonimir Rakamaric, University of Utah, USA
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Mooly Sagiv, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Sriram Sankaranarayanan, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Koushik Sen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, USA
Natasha Sharygina, Universitat della Svizzera Italiana, Switzerland
Sharon Shoham, Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo, Israel
Nishant Sinha, IBM Research Labs, India
Fabio Somenzi, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA
Manu Sridharan, Samsung Research America, USA
Ofer Strichman, Technion, Israel
Zhendong Su, University of California, Davis, USA
Cesare Tinelli, The University of Iowa, USA
Emina Torlak, University of Washington, USA
Tayssir Touili, CNRS, LIPN, France
Thomas Wahl, Northeastern University, USA
Georg Weissenbacher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Eran Yahav, Technion, Israel

Steering Committee

Michael Gordon, University of Cambridge, UK
Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel
Aarti Gupta, USA
Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft, USA