[clean-list] DIFTS'11: First Call For Papers

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                             DIFTS'11

            DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of FORMAL TOOLS and SYSTEMS

                      FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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First International Workshop on Design and Implementation of Formal
Tools 

and Systems (co-located with FMCAD 2011)

 

http://www.nec-labs.com/research/system/systems_SAV-website/DIFTS11/

 

University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA

November 3, 2011

 

 

IMPORTANT DATES

 

Abstract submission:      May 30, 2011

Paper submission:           June 6, 2011

Author notification:        July 6, 2011

Final version:                     Sept 5, 2011

Workshop:                          Nov 3, 2011

 

 

WORKSHOP SCOPE

 

The first DIFTS (Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and

Systems) workshop  emphasizes insightful experiences in formal

tools and systems design. It provides a forum for sharing

challenges and solutions that are original with ground 

breaking results.

 

Often the design and implementation of tools for formal analysis

require non-trivial engineering decisions. Many challenges are

faced, which often can only be met with ingenious implementation 

techniques. These techniques actually play a crucial role in

making the idea work in practice. The workshop provides an

opportunity for discussing engineering aspects and various

design decisions required to put such formal tools and systems

into practical use.

 

 

TOPICS OF INTEREST

 

DIFTS takes a broad view of the formal tools/systems area, and

solicits contributions from domains including, but not restricted

to, decision procedures, verification, testing, validation,

diagnosis, debugging, and synthesis.

 

This workshop encourages and appreciates system development

activities, and facilitates transparency in the experimentation.

It will also serve as a platform to discuss open problems and

future challenges in practicing formal methods.

 

 

SUBMISSION

 

The workshop specifically solicits contributions with

substantial engineering details that often do not get published

but has significant practical impact.

 

Papers in the following two categories are solicited:

(a) system category (10 pages, double column, 11pt), and

(b) tool category (8 pages, double column, 11pt).

 

In the system category, we invite papers that have original ideas

accompanied with novel integration techniques, adequate

design/implementation details, important design choices made

and explored, and good experimental results.

 

In the tool category, we invite papers that focus primarily

on the engineering aspects of some known/popular algorithm,

with significant emphasis on the design/implementation details,

and various design choices made to advance

current state-of-the-art approaches.

 

The page limit for submissions in the system category is 10 pages

in double column format and for submissions in the tool category

is 8 pages in double column format.

 

Submission of papers should be made electronically in PDF format

via EasyChair. More details will be provided on the DIFTS web site.

 

 

EVALUATION

 

To keep maintain uniformity and fairness in the reviewing process,

the program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of

each submission based on the following guidelines: the paper

should provide enough details for others to reproduce the 

results; and should solve a clearly-stated problem that is 

significant and has wide interest; and the paper should provide 

enough motivation for the design choices made. Overall, the 

paper should also clearly identify what the main contributions 

of the work are.

 

PUBLICATION

 

All accepted contributions will be published in archived electronic

notes. High quality submissions will be considered for a special issue

of Journal such as  FMSD (Formal Methods in System Design) or

STTT (Software Tools for Technology Transfer).

 

ORGANIZATION

 

PROGRAM CHAIRS

 

Malay K. Ganai          NEC Labs America, USA

Armin Biere               Johannes Kepler University, Austria

 

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

 

Clark W. Barrett                                New York University,
USA

Armin Biere                                        Johannes Kepler
University,       Austria

Alessandro Cimatti                          Fondazione Bruno Kessler,
Italy

Cindy Eisner                                       IBM Haifa Research
Lab,               Israel

Malay K. Ganai                                  NEC Labs America,
USA

Ganesh Gopalakrishnan                University of Utah,
USA

Daniel Kroening                                Oxford University,
UK

Robert P. Kurshan                           Cadence Design Systems,
USA

Ken McMillan                                    Microsoft Research,
USA

Chao Wang                                         NEC Labs America,
USA

 

INVITED SPEAKER

 

We are privileged to have Andreas Kuehlmann, VP of Coverity,

President of IEEE Council on EDA (CEDA), and an IEEE fellow

as an invited speaker.

 

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