17-19 Apr 2018
Newport News VA, U.S.A.
----------------------------------------- Call for Participation: NFM 2018 ----------------------------------------- Tenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium 30 Years of Formal Methods at NASA April 17-19, Newport News, VA, USA https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ Celebrating 30 years of formal methods research at NASA Langley, the Tenth 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. Keynote speakers: Ricky Butler (NASA, USA) Gilles Dowek (INRIA, CNRS, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, France) The program of symposium is available at: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/program.html Attendance to the symposium is free, but all attendees must register in order to participate. Registrations are open until ** April 1, 2018 ** at: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/registration.html The symposium will be held at Newport News Marriott at City Center 740 Town Center Drive Newport News, VA 23606, USA. Phone: +1 (757) 873-9299. A group rate to attend NFM2018 is available at the Newport News Marriot until ** March 16, 2018 **. Reservations can be made by calling +1 (866) 329-1758, and asking for the group code: NASA, or through web at https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/hotel_reservation.html List of Accepted Papers: * Ansgar Fehnker, Kaylash Chaudhary and Vinay Mehta. An Even Better Approach - Improving the B.A.T.M.A.N. Protocol Through Formal Modelling and Analysis * Massimo Narizzano, Luca Pulina, Armando Tacchella and Simone Vuotto. Consistency of Property Specification Patterns with Boolean and Constrained Numerical Signals * Marcus Gerhold, Arnd Hartmanns and Mariëlle Stoelinga. Model-Based Testing for General Stochastic Time * Ruben Giaquinta, Ruth Hoffmann, Murray Ireland, Alice Miller, and Gethin Norman. Strategy Synthesis for Autonomous Agents using PRISM * Miguel Romero and Camilo Rocha. Symbolic Execution and Reachability Analysis using Rewriting Modulo SMT for Spatial Concurrent Constraint Systems with Extrusion * Lola Masson, Jérémie Guiochet, Helene Waeselynck, Martin Törngren, Sofia Cassel and Kalou Cabrera. Tuning permissiveness of active safety monitors for autonomous systems * Radha Nakade, Eric Mercer, Peter Aldous and Jay McCarthy. Model Checking Task Parallel Programs for Data-race * Aymeric Fromherz, Abdelraouf Ouadjaout and Antoine Miné. Static Value Analysis of Python Programs by Abstract Interpretation * Flavio M. de Paula, Arvind Haran and Brad Bingham. An Efficient Rewriting Framework for Trace Coverage of Symmetric Systems * Ansgar Fehnker and Kaylash Chaudhary. Twenty Percent and a Few Days - Optimising a Bitcoin Majority Attack (short paper) * Jeroen Meijer and Jaco van de Pol. Sound Black-Box Checking in the LearnLib * Philipp Koerner and Jens Bendisposto. Distributed Model Checking Using ProB * Saksham Chand and Yanhong A. Liu. Simpler Specifications and Easier Proofs of Distributed Algorithms Using History Variables * Siddhartha Bhattacharyya, Thomas Eskridge, Natasha Neogi, Marco Carvalho and Milton Stafford. Formal Assurance for Cooperative Intelligent Autonomous Agents * Yassmeen Elderhalli, Osman Hasan, Waqar Ahmed and Sofiène Tahar. Formal Dynamic Fault Trees Analysis using an Integration of Theorem Proving and Model Checking * Sarah Benyagoub, Meriem Ouederni, Yamine Ait Ameur, and Atif Mashkoor. Incremental Construction of Realizable Choreographies * César Augusto Ochoa Escudero, Rémi Delmas, Thomas Bochot, Matthieu David, and Virginie Wiels. Automatic Generation of DO-178 Test Procedures * Andrew Ireland, Maria Teresa Llano and Simon Colton. The Use of Automated Theory Formation in Support of Hazard Analysis (short paper) * Zhuo Chen and Werner Dietl. Don't Miss the End: Preventing Unsafe End-of-File Comparisons (short paper) * András Vörös, Márton Búr, István Ráth, Ákos Horváth, Zoltán Micskei, László Balogh, Bálint Hegyi, Benedek Horváth, Zsolt Mázló and Dániel Varró. MoDeS3: Model-based Demonstrator for Smart and Safe Cyber-Physical Systems (short paper) * Giovanna Broccia, Paolo Milazzo and Peter Csaba Ölveczky. An Executable Formal Framework for Safety-Critical Human Multitasking * Marco Feliú and Mariano Moscato. Towards a Formal Safety Framework for Trajectories (short paper) * Rui Qiu, Sarfraz Khurshid, Corina Pasareanu, Junye Wen and Guowei Yang. Using Test Ranges to Improve Symbolic Execution * Allan Blanchard, Nikolai Kosmatov and Frédéric Loulergue. Ghosts for Lists: A Critical Module of Contiki Verified in Frama-C * Souradeep Dutta, Susmit Jha, Sriram Sankaranarayanan and Ashish Tiwari. Output Range Analysis for Deep Feedforward Neural Networks * Bruno Dutertre, Dejan Jovanovi? and Jorge Navas. Verification of Fault-Tolerant Protocols with Sally (short paper) * Alfons Laarman. Optimal Storage of Combinatorial State Spaces * Alfons Laarman. Stubborn Transaction Reduction * Cumhur Erkan Tuncali, Bardh Hoxha, Guohui Ding, Georgios Fainekos and Sriram Sankaranarayanan. Experience Report: Application of Falsification Methods on the UxAS System (short paper) * Hendrik Maarand and Tarmo Uustalu. Certified Foata Normalization for Generalized Traces * Francesco Marconi, Giovanni Quattrocchi, Luciano Baresi, Marcello M. Bersani and Matteo Rossi. On the Timed Analysis of Big-Data Applications Organizing Committee ---------------- Anthony Narkawicz (Conference Chair) Aaron Dutle (Program Co-Chair) Cesar Munoz (Program Co-Chair) Contact -------- Email: nfm2018 [at] easychair [dot] org Web: https://shemesh.larc.nasa.gov/NFM2018/ -- [LOGIC] mailing list http://www.dvmlg.de/mailingliste.html Archive: http://www.illc.uva.nl/LogicList/ provided by a collaboration of the DVMLG, the Maths Departments in Bonn and Hamburg, and the ILLC at the Universiteit van Amsterdam