[fg-arc] SPIN 2024: first Call for Papers

[Thomas Neele]

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS

SPIN 2024 - 30th International Symposium on Model Checking of Software

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, April, 2024
co-located with ETAPS 2024 (6-11 April)

Conference website: https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2024/

Submission link: will be published later

Celebration of the 30th SPIN symposium: special anniversary track

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The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and 
practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the 
analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of 
verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on 
concurrent software but does not exclude the analysis of sequential 
software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel 
algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation.

The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state 
model checking, specifically as related to the SPIN model checker. 
However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly-scoped symposium for 
software analysis using any automated techniques, including model 
checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview 
of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: 
https://spinroot.com/spin/Workshops/. In celebration of the 30th edition 
of the symposium, SPIN 2024 features a special track for historical 
accounts and other broad discussions (see below).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to 
the symposium, for the special anniversary track (see below)

- Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of (concurrent) 
software/hardware, including:
     - Model checking
     - Deductive verification
- Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT
- Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques
- Static analysis and abstract interpretation
- Modular and compositional verification techniques
- Verification of timed and probabilistic systems
- Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques
- Program synthesis
- Derivation of specifications, test cases etc. via formal analysis
- Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract
- Formal analysis of learned systems
- Any combination of the above

- Application and/or engineering of verification tools, including:
     - Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results
- Implementation of novel verification tools
- Benchmarks and comparative studies for verification tools
- Verification tools using modern hardware, e.g.: multi-core CPU, GPU, 
TPU, cloud, and quantum

  IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due: January 15, 2024 (23:59:59 Anywhere on Earth)
Author notification: February 26, 2024
Camera ready: March 11, 2024
Symposium: between April 6 and 11, 2024. Exact dates will be announced 
later.

  SUBMISSION CATEGORIES AND GUIDELINES

Papers should be submitted via the EasyChair SPIN 2024 submission 
website. The link will be published later on the SPIN 2024 website.

The proceedings of SPIN 2024 will be published in Springer’s Lecture 
Notes in Computer Science series. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS 
format: 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

With the exception of survey and history papers, the papers should 
contain original work that has not been submitted or accepted for 
publication elsewhere.

We are soliciting three categories of papers:

* Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete 
results (16 pages, excluding bibliography);

* Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons 
learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel 
contributions to formal methods (6 pages, excluding bibliography).

* Special anniversary track: to celebrate the 30th edition of SPIN, we 
invite submissions that present the field of formal methods in a broad 
sense. These may be historical accounts, discussion of successful 
research lines, surveys, position papers etc (16 pages, excluding 
bibliography).

All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed 
by members of the program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on 
the basis of originality, the importance of contribution, soundness, 
evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to 
related work.

At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the symposium and 
present the paper.

A Best Paper award will be announced and handed out at the conference.

Traditionally, a selection of papers were invited to a special issue of 
the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).

  ARTIFACTS

SPIN 2024 introduces an artifact evaluation, performed by an Artifact 
Evaluation Committee (AEC). The AEC evaluates artifacts based on 
documentation, availability, reproducibility of results and reusability. 
Papers with an accompanying artifact may be awarded one or more badges 
from the EAPLS artifact badging scheme 
(https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/). Submission of an artifact is 
optional.

  ORGANIZATION

Program Chairs

Thomas Neele, Eindhoven University of Technology
Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology

Program Committee

TBA

  CONTACT INFORMATION

Thomas Neele, t.s.neele at tue.nl
Anton Wijs, a.j.wijs at tue.nl