9th NASA Formal Methods Symposium  - NFM 2017

NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, USA May 16-18, 2017

Theme of the Conference

The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and safety-critical systems at NASA and the aerospace industry requires advanced techniques that address their specification, design, verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal Methods Symposium is a forum to foster collaboration between theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and the industry, with the goal of identifying challenges and providing solutions towards achieving assurance for such critical systems. New developments and emerging applications like autonomous on-board Software for Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), UAS Traffic Management (UTM), advanced separation assurance algorithms for aircraft, and the need for system-wide fault detection, diagnosis, and prognostics provide new challenges for system specification, development, and verification approaches. Similar challenges need to be addressed during development and deployment of on-board software for spacecraft ranging from small and inexpensive CubeSat systems to manned spacecraft like Orion, as well as for ground systems. The focus of the symposium will be on formal techniques and other approaches for software assurance, their theory, current capabilities and limitations, as well as their potential application to aerospace, robotics, and other NASA-relevant safety-critical systems during all stages of the software life-cycle. We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others.

Topics of Interest

• Model checking
• Theorem proving
• SAT and SMT solving
• Symbolic execution
• Static analysis
• Model-based development
• Runtime verification
• Software and system testing
• Safety assurance
• Fault tolerance
• Compositional verification
• Security and intrusion detection
• Design for verification and correct-by-design techniques
• Techniques for scaling formal methods
• Formal methods for multi-core, GPU-based implementations
• Applications of formal methods in the development of:
  • autonomous systems
  • safety-critical artificial intelligence systems
  • cyber-physical, embedded, and hybrid systems
  • fault-detection, diagnostics, and prognostics systems
• Use of formal methods in:
  • assurance cases
  • human-machine interaction analysis
  • requirements generation, specification, and validation
  • automated testing and verification

Submission

There are two categories of submissions:

1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results (15 pages)
2. Short papers describing tools, experience reports, or descriptions of work in progress with preliminary results (6 pages)

All papers should be in English and describe original work that has not been published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed by members of the program committee. Papers must use Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style and be put in PDF format, as the papers will appear as a volume in Lecture Notes of Computer Science. Papers must be submitted in PDF format at the EasyChair submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nfm2017

Important Dates

Nov 28 , 2016	Abstract Submission Deadline
Dec 05, 2016 Midnight (AOE)	Paper Submission Deadline
Feb 3, 2017	Paper Notification
March 1, 2017	Camera-Ready Submission

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