[fg-arc] iFM 2023 - Second Call for Papers

[Laarman, A.W. (Alfons)]

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                      iFM 2023 - Call for Papers
      18th International Conference on integrated Formal Methods
             13-15 November 2023, Leiden, the Netherlands
                        https://ifm23.liacs.nl
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IMPORTANT DATES IFM 2023
Abstract submission:              25 May 2023
Paper submission:                 1 June 2023
Acceptance notification:       10 August 2023
Early registration:	     15 August-10 October 2023
Late registration:	     from 11 October 2023
iFM 2023 main conference: 13-15 November 2023

Important dates IFM 2023 artifacts 
Artifact registration deadline:	17 August 2023
Artifact submission deadline: 	24 August 2023
Test phase notification:		31 August 2023
Communication phase: 		  1 - 10 September 2023
Final artifact notification:	20 September 2023

KEYNOTE AND INVITED SPEAKERS (confirmed)
Rustan Leino (Amazon Web Services, USA) – IFM 2023
Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, NL) – PhD Symposium

OBJECTIVE AND SCOPE
In the last decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of approaches 
that integrate several modelling, verification, and simulation 
techniques, facilitating more versatile and efficient analysis of 
software-intensive systems. These approaches provide powerful support 
for the analysis of different functional and non-functional properties 
of the systems, complex interaction of components of different natures 
as well as validation of diverse aspects of system behaviour. The iFM 
conference series is a forum for discussing recent research advances 
in the development of integrated approaches to formal modelling and 
analysis. The conference covers all aspects of the design of 
integrated techniques, including language design, verification and 
validation, automated tool support, and the use of such techniques in 
software engineering practice. To credit the effort of tool developers, 
we use EAPLS artifact badging. <https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/>.

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

  * Formal and semi-formal modelling notations
  * Combining formal methods with different performance, simulation and
    system analysis techniques
  * Program verification, model checking, and static analysis
  * Theorem proving, decision procedures and SAT/SMT solving
  * Runtime analysis, monitoring and testing
  * Program synthesis
  * Modelling, analysis and synthesis of cyber-physical, hybrid,
    embedded, probabilistic, distributed or concurrent systems
  * Abstraction and refinement
  * Model learning and inference
  * Approaches to integrating formal methods into software engineering
    practice or industry
  * Approaches to integrating formal methods into standardisation or
    certification processes
  * Formal methods for AI
  * Tools and case studies supporting the integration of formal methods


PAPER CATEGORIES
iFM 2023 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or
experience reports related to the overall theme of formal methods
integration.

We accept papers in the following categories:

(1) Regular papers (limit 16 pages) on
    * original scientific research results
    * tools, their foundation and evaluations
    * applications of formal methods, including rigorous evaluations

(2) Short papers (limit 6 pages) on
    * any subject of interest in the area of formal methods that can be
      described with sufficient detail within the page limit

All page limits exclude the references. Appendices may be included, but
they will only be read by a reviewer at their discretion.

Regular and short papers must be original, unpublished, and not
submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers will undergo a thorough
review process. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance,
relevance, correctness, originality and clarity.

The submissions will be reviewed and selected for publication based on
the above mentioned criteria as well as suitability to the conference’s
technical program.


SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions for all categories should be made using the iFM 2023
EasyChair site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm-2023

Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files.

Springer requires that 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. After a paper is accepted, the corresponding author 
of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must 
complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author 
signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked 
on the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating 
to the authorship of the papers cannot be made.

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes 
in Computer Science series. A special issue of the Formal Aspects of 
Computing journal is planned for extended versions of selected papers from 
iFM 2023. We will apply for a special issue of the Original Software 
Publication track in Science of Computer Programming (see EAPLS Artifact 
Badging below).


EAPLS ARTIFACT BADGING
The reproducibility of experiments is crucial to foster an atmosphere of 
open, reusable, and trustworthy research. To improve and reward 
reproducibility and to give more visibility and credit to the effort of 
tool developers in our community, authors of accepted papers will be 
invited to submit possible artifacts associated with their paper for 
evaluation, and based on the level of reproducibility they will be 
awarded one or more badges. Artifact submission is optional, and the
result of the artifact evaluation will not alter the paper’s acceptance 
decision. Please, refer to the call at https://ifm23.liacs.nl/artifacts.html 
for more detailed information.

To credit the effort of tool developers, we plan to apply for a special 
issue of the Original Software Publication track in the Science of Computer 
Programming journal. Authors of selected artifacts will be invited to 
contribute to this issue.

GENERAL CHAIR
Marcello M. Bonsangue (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherlands)

PROGRAM COMMITTE CHAIRS
Paula Herber (University of Münster, Germany)
Anton Wijs (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)

ARTIFACT EVALUAION COMMITTEE CHAIRS
Muhammad Osama (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Anna-Lena Lamprecht (University of Potsdam, Germany)

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Alfons Laarman (LIACS, Leiden University, The Netherland)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Wolfgang Ahrendt (Chalmers University, Sweden)
Maurice H. ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Petra van den Bos (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
Alessandro Cimatti (University of Trento, Italy)
David Safranek (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
Pedro D’Argenio (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Spain)
Richard DeFrancisco (Augusta University, Georgia, USA)
John Derrick (University of Sheffield, United Kingdom)
Claire Dross (AdaCore, France)
Karine Even-Mendoza (King’s College London, United Kingdom)
Marie Farrell (University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Carlo A. Furia (Universita della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland)
Dilian Gurov (KTH Stockholm, Sweden)
Marieke Huisman (University of Twente, The Nethrlands)
Sebastian Junges (Radboud University, The Netherlands)
Einar Broch Johnson (University of Oslo, Norway)
Nikolai Kosmatov (CEA List, CEA Saclay, France)
Alfons Laarman (Leiden University, The Netherlands)
Martin Leucker (University of Lübeck, Germany)
Rosemary Monahan (Maynooth University, Ireland)
Thomas Neele (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Wytse Oortwijn (TNO, The Netherlands)
Jun Pang (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Luigia Petre (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Giles Reger (Amazon Web Services and University of Manchester, United Kingdom)
Anne Remke (University of Münster, Germany)
Thomas Santen (Formal Assurance, Germany)
Ina Schäfer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Germany)
Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa (University of Oslo, Norway)
Heike Wehrheim (University of Oldenburg, Germany)
Kirsten Winter (University of Queensland, Australia)
Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. of China)


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