SBMF 2023: 26th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods Universidade Federal do Amazonas Manaus, Brazil, December 4-8, 2023 |
Conference website | https://sbmf23.ufam.edu.br/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbmf2023 |
Submission deadline | August 11, 2023 |
Notification | September 15, 2023 |
Camera-ready | October 9, 2023 |
Scope and Topics
The aim of SBMF is to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of high-quality work in formal methods. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Applications of formal methods to:
- Software or/and hardware design
- Software or/and hardware development
- Software or/and hardware code generation
- Software or/and hardware testing
- Software maintenance, evolution or/and reuse
- Intelligent systems
- Specification and modeling languages
- Logic and semantics for specification or/and programming languages
- Formal methods for timed, real-time, hybrid, or/and safety-critical systems
- Formal methods for service-oriented, cloud-based, or/and cyber-physical systems
- Theoretical foundations
- Domain theory
- Term rewriting
- Computational models
- Type systems and category systems
- Computation complexity of methods and models
- Models of time, concurrency, security or/and mobility
- Verification and validation
- Abstraction, modularization or/and refinement techniques
- Static analysis
- Model checking
- Theorem proving
- Software certification
- Correctness by construction
- Experience reports
- Reports on teaching formal methods
- Reports on industrial application of formal methods
Submission Guidelines
We invite submissions of papers with a strong emphasis on formal methods, whether practical or theoretical, in the following categories:
- Regular papers (limit of 15 pages). Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit the page limit may be provided in an appendix.
- Short papers (limit of 8 pages). Short papers include system descriptions, user experiences, and case studies. We encourage authors to make the data needed to reproduce their experiments available.
The page limits exclude references and appendices.
Contributions should not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. They should be written in English, and prepared using Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. More information is available at the following link:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines
Papers should present unpublished and original work that has a clear contribution to the state-of-the-art on the theory and practice of formal methods. Papers will be judged by at least three reviewers on the basis of originality, relevance, technical soundness and presentation quality and should contain sound theoretical or practical results. Industry papers should emphasize the practical application of formal methods or report on open challenges.
Submissions should be made via the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbmf2023
Committees
Program Committee
- Yoni Zohar (Bar-Ilan University), co-chair
- Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), co-chair
- Katalin Fazekas (TU Wien)
- Mathias Preiner (Stanford University)
- Daniela Kaufmann (TU Wien)
- Edjard Mota (Institute of Computing/Federal University of Amazonas)
- Maurice ter Beek (ISTI-CNR, Pisa)
- Vince Molnár (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
- Mathias Fleury (University of Freiburg)
- Leila Ribeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul)
- Luís Soares Barbosa (University of Minho)
- Volker Stolz (Høgskulen på Vestlandet)
- Nils Timm (University of Pretoria)
- Thierry Lecomte (CLEARSY)
- Lucas Lima (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco)
- Marcel Vinicius Medeiros Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte)
- Gustavo Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
- Márcio Cornélio (Centro de Informática - UFPE)
- Clark Barrett (Stanford University)
- Juliano Iyoda (Centro de Informática, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco)
- Sergio Campos (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
- Adenilso Simao (ICMC/USP)
- Ahmed Irfan (SRI International)
- Leopoldo Teixeira (Informatics Center, Federal University of Pernambuco)
- David Deharbe (ClearSy System Engineering)
- Michael Leuschel (University of Düsseldorf)
- Giselle Reis (Carnegie Mellon University)
- Rohit Gheyi (Department of Computing Systems - UFCG)
- Augusto Sampaio (Federal university of Pernambuco)
- Armin Biere (Freiburg)
- Sophie Tourret (INRIA and MPI for Informatics)
- Natarajan Shankar (SRI International)
- Sidney C. Nogueira (DC - UFRPE)
- Cesare Tinelli (The University of Iowa)
- Lucas Cordeiro (University of Manchester)
- Clare Dixon (University of Manchester)
Organizing committee
- Edjard Mota (Universidade Federal do Amazonas, Brazil) -- General Chair
- Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil) -- PC co-chair
- Yoni Zohar (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) -- PC co-chair
Invited Speakers
- Artur d'Avila Garcez (City, University London)
- Chantal Keller (Université Paris-Saclay)
- TBA
Publication
Accepted papers will be published, after the conference, in a volume of LNCS. The authors will be requested to complete and sign a consent-to-publish form. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered in the symposium by the time the camera-ready copy is submitted. The registered author is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper.
A special issue of the Science of Computer Programming Journal (Elsevier) is going to be organised (to be confirmed) with selected and extended papers from the 25th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF 2023).
Venue
The conference will be held in the Institute of Computing of the UFAM, which has only 30 years of history, is one of the two most important centers of higher education and research and entrepreneurship in computing startups in the North and Northeast of Brazil, being recognised as a postgraduate program of international level according to the most recent ranking by Capes, an agency of the Ministry of Education that promotes research and graduate studies.