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25th International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
FMCAD 2025
October 6-10, 2025, SRI Headquarters, Menlo Park, CA, US
https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/
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FMCAD 2025 is the twenty-fifth edition in a series of conferences on the th
eory and
applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. The con
ference
encompasses a wide range of topics related to formal aspects of computer-ai
ded system
design, including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing and p
rovides
a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and
discussing
groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for re
asoning
formally about computing systems.
## General Information
Conference Website: https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/
Conference Location: SRI Headquarters, Menlo Park, California, US
Conference Dates: October 6 - October 10, 2025
FMCAD 2025 includes the FMCAD Student Forum (https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/stud
ent_forum/)
and is co-located with VSTTE 2025.
## Topics of Interest
FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances
in all
aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer-aided design.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and re
duction,
compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, prob
abilistic
methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures.
* Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, spe
cification,
and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subse
ts, model-based
design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction metho
ds.
* Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-funct
ional
specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and
power
modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, s
ystem-level
design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, autom
otive
systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and
verification,
and transaction-level verification.
* Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to indu
strial-scale
designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, introducenew
features,
or substantially improve the automation of formal methods.
* Application of formal methods to verifying safety, connectivity and secur
ity properties
of networks, distributed systems, smart contracts, block chains, and IoT de
vices.
* Application of formal methods to the analysis of machine learning systems
, and
applications of machine learning to enhance formal methods techniques.
## Important Dates
* Abstract Submission Deadline: April 20, 2025
* Paper Submission Deadline: April 27, 2025
* Author Response: June 17 - June 19, 2025
* Author Notification: July 1, 2025
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
### FMCAD/VSTTE Program Outline
* Main VSTTE Day: October 6, 2025
* Joint FMCAD/VSTTE Tutorial Day: October 7, 2025
* Main FMCAD days: October 8 - October 10, 2025
## Submission Guidelines
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=fmcad2025
Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study
papers.
* *Regular papers* are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoreti
cal results,
or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental im
pact validation
where applicable.
* *Tool & Case Study papers* are expected to report on the design, implemen
tation
or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant co
ntext
(which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes.
Both Regular and Tool & Case Study papers must use the IEEE Transactions fo
rmat on
letter-size paper with a 10-point font size; preferably, use the FMCAD temp
late for
papers. Papers in both categories can be either 8 pages (long) or 4 pages (
short)
in length excluding references. Short papers that describe emerging results
, practical
experiences, or original ideas that can be described succinctly are encoura
ged. Authors
will be required to select an appropriate paper category at abstract submis
sion time.
Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the
final
version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality an
d the
relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix.
Submissions in all categories must contain original research that has not b
een previously
published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overl
ap with
published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated.
FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process and each submission will be re
viewed
by at least four members of the program committee. The review process is si
ngle-blind.
The review process will incorporate a feedback and rebuttal period during w
hich authors
will have the opportunity to formally respond to reviewer comments.
**New - Artifact Evaluation:** FMCAD 2025 introduces optional artifact eval
uation
to enhance transparency and the usability of research outcomes. Authors rep
orting
experimental results are strongly encouraged to publish their final data in
a long-term
repository (e.g. zenodo (https://zenodo.org)). With artifacts serving as su
pplementary
evidence, high-quality artifacts can improve the likelihood of paper accept
ance.
Artifact evaluation will be integrated into the main review process, with o
ne selected
program committee member assessing the quality of the artifact alongside th
e paper.
Accepted artifacts require a DOI and will be clearly identified in the publ
ished
paper. Details are available on the Artifacts Page (https://fmcad.org/FMCAD
25/cfa).
Accepted papers are published by TU Wien Academic Press under a Creative Co
mmons
license (the authors retain the copyright) and distributed through the IEEE
XPlore
digital library. IEEE CEDA is a technical co-sponsor of FMCAD. There are no
publication
fees. Authors of accepted contributions will be required to sign the FMCAD
copyright
transfer form found here: https://fmcad.or.at/pdf/copyright.pdf.
For each accepted paper, at least one unique author must register for the c
onference.
Moreover, authors of accepted papers ensure that at least one of them will
attend
the conference and present the work.
## Student Forum
Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2025 will host a Stud
ent Forum
that provides a platform for graduate students at any career stage to intro
duce their
research to the wider Formal Methods community, and solicit feedback.
Submissions for the student forum must be short reports describing research
ideas
or ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be within
the scope
of FMCAD. Work that has been partly published previously might be considere
d; the
novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in su
ch cases.
All submissions will be reviewed by a selected group of FMCAD student forum
committee
members. Details are available on the Student Forum Page (https://fmcad.org
/FMCAD25/student_forum).
## FMCAD 2025 Committees
### Program Chair
Ahmed Irfan, SRI, CA, USA
Daniela Kaufmann, TU Wien, Austria
### Local Chair
Stphane Graham-Lengrand, SRI, CA, USA
### Registration Chair
Jenny McNeill, SRI, CA, USA
### Student Forum Chairs
Tanja Schindler, University of Basel, Switzerland
Lee A. Barnett, AWS, CA, USA
### Sponsorship Chair:
Alex Ozdemir, Stanford University, CA, USA
### Publication Chair
Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien, Austria
### Web Chair
Thomas Hader, TU Wien, Austria
### FMCAD Steering Committee
Clark Barrett, Stanford University, CA, USA
Armin Biere, University of Freiburg, Germany
Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA
Anna Slobodova, ARM, USA
Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien, Austria
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