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NFM 2017: NASA Formal Methods Symposium

16-18 May 2017
Moffett Field CA, U.S.A.

NFM 2017 - Call For Papers

The 9th NASA Formal Methods Symposium
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http://ti.arc.nasa.gov/events/nfm-2017/
May 16 - 18, 2017
NASA Ames Research Center
Moffett Field, CA, USA

Theme of the Symposium
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The widespread use and increasing complexity of mission-critical and 
safety-critical systems at NASA and in the aerospace industry require 
advanced techniques that address these systems? specification, design, 
verification, validation, and certification requirements. The NASA Formal 
Methods Symposium (NFM) is a forum to foster collaboration between 
theoreticians and practitioners from NASA, academia, and industry. NFM?s 
goals are to identify challenges and to provide solutions for achieving 
assurance for such critical systems.

New developments and emerging applications like autonomous 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, including 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.


Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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* 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

Important Dates
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Abstract Submission: November 28, 2016
Paper Submission: December 5, 2016
Paper notification: February 3, 2017
Camera Ready Deadline: March 1, 2017
Symposium: May 16-18, 2017

Location
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The symposium will take place at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.
Registration is required but is free of charge.

Submission Details
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There are two categories of submissions:

1. Regular papers describing fully developed work and complete results 
(maximum 15 pages)

2. Short papers on tools, experience reports, or work in progress with 
preliminary results (maximum 6 pages)

All papers must be in English and describe original work that has not been 
published or submitted elsewhere. All submissions will be fully reviewed 
by at least three members of the Program Committee.

Papers will appear in a volume of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science (LNCS), and must
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