[Event at CIG] FMICS 2024: 2nd call-for-papers

[Anne Elisabeth Haxthausen]

Call for Papers

FMICS 2024:
29th International Conference on Formal Methods for Industrial Critical 
Systems

Co-located with FM 2024 in Milan, Italy, 9-11 September 2024
https://fmics.inria.fr/2024

The aim of the FMICS conference series is to provide a forum for 
researchers and practitioners who are interested in the development and 
application of formal methods in industry. FMICS brings together 
scientists and engineers who are active in the area of formal methods 
and interested in exchanging their experiences in the industrial usage 
of these methods. The FMICS conference series also strives to promote 
research and development for the improvement of formal methods and tools 
for industrial applications.


IMPORTANT DATES

- Abstract submission: 25 April 2024
- Paper submission: 1 May 2024
- Notification: 10 June 2024
- Camera-ready version: 23 June 2024
- Conference: 9-11 September 2024

TOPICS

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

- Case studies and experience reports on industrial applications of 
formal methods, focusing on lessons learned or identification of new 
research directions.
- Methods, techniques, and tools to support automated analysis, 
certification, debugging, learning, optimization, and transformation of 
complex, distributed, real-time, embedded, mobile, and autonomous systems.
- Verification and validation methods (model checking, theorem proving, 
SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, etc.) that address 
shortcomings of existing methods with respect to their industrial 
applicability (e.g., scalability and usability issues, tool 
qualification, and certification).
- Transfer to industry and impact of adoption of formal methods on the 
development process and associated costs in industry.
- Application of formal methods in standardization and industrial forums.

SUBMISSION

Papers must describe original research work and results. Submitted 
papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with 
published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any 
other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference, or archival 
journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently 
submitted paper must be clearly indicated.

Submissions should clearly motivate relevance to industrial 
applications. Case study papers should identify lessons learned, 
validate theoretical results (such as scalability of methods) or provide 
specific motivation for further research and development.

Papers should not exceed 15 pages (excluding references) formatted 
according to the Springer author guidelines LNCS style. All submissions 
will be reviewed by at least three members of the Programme Committee, 
which will make a selection among the submissions based on the novelty, 
soundness, and applicability of the presented ideas and results. Papers 
must be written in English and should be submitted as PDF files using 
the EasyChair submission site.


PROCEEDINGS

The conference proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS 
series. Previous FMICS proceedings can be found on SpringerLink. At 
least one author of each accepted paper is expected to present the paper 
at the conference as a registered participant.

Authors should consult Springer's authors' guidelines and use their 
proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, for the preparation 
of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include their ORCIDs in 
their papers.

BEST PAPER AWARD

An monetary award sponsored by Springer will be given to the authors of 
the submission selected by the Program Committee as the best paper of 
FMICS 2024.

SPECIAL ISSUE

The Programme Committee of FMICS 2024 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.

INVITED SPEAKERS

- Byron Cook, Amazon Webservices
- Thierry Lecomte, CLEARSY

COMMITTEES

* PC CHAIRS
- Anne Haxthausen (Technical University of Denmark, co-chair)
- Wendelin Serwe (INRIA Grenoble, France, co-chair)

* PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
- Bernhard Aichernig (TU Graz, Austria)
- Davide Basile (ISTI CNR, Pisa, Italy)
- Alessandro Cimatti (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
- Pedro R. D'Argenio (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba - CONICET, Argentina)
- Jennifer Davis (Collins Aerospace, USA)
- Luca di Stefano (University of Gothenburg and Chalmers, Sweden)
- Kerstin Eder (University of Bristol, United Kingdom)
- Hugues Evrard (Google, France)
- Alessandro Fantechi (DINFO - Universitá di Firenze, Italy)
- Wan Fokkink (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Martin Fränzle (Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany)
- Pierre-Loïc Garoche (ENAC, France)
- Matthias Güdemann (UAS Munich, Germany)
- Klaus Havelund (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of 
Technology, USA)
- Anne Haxthausen (Technical University of Denmark, co-chair)
- Holger Hermanns (Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken, Germany)
- Peter Höfner (Australian National University)
- Bertrand Jeannet (Dassault Systèmes, France)
- Joseph Kiniry (Galois, Inc., USA)
- Jan Křetínský (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic)
- Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark)
- Thierry Lecomte (CLEARSY, France)
- Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick and LERO, Ireland)
- Lina Marsso (University of Toronto, Canada)
- Stephan Merz (Inria Nancy, France)
- Stefan Mitsch (DePaul University, Chicago, USA)
- David Monniaux (VERIMAG, France)
- Charles Pecheur (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
- Cristina Seceleanu (Mälardalen University, Sweden)
- Wendelin Serwe (INRIA Grenoble, France, co-chair)
- Laura Titolo (National Institute of Aerospace, USA)
- Jaco van de Pol (Aarhus University, Denmark)
- Virginie Wiels (ONERA, France)
- Anton Wijs (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
- Jim Woodcock (University of York, United Kingdom)
- Zhen Zhang (Utah State University, USA)

* FMICS STEERING COMMITTEE
- Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, IT)
- Alessandro Fantechi (University of Florence, IT)
- Hubert Garavel (INRIA, FR)
- Tiziana Margaria (University of Limerick and LERO, IE)
- Radu Mateescu (INRIA, FR)
- Jaco van de Pol (Aarhus University, DK)

VENUE

FMICS 2024 is co-located with FM 2024 and will be held at Politecnico di 
Milano in Milan, Italy.

SPONSORS
- Springer
- ERCIM 

CONTACT
- Anne Haxthausen: aeha at dtu.dk
- Wendelin Serwe: wendelin.serwe at inria.fr