http://cavconference.org/2017/

 

Important Dates

 

All deadlines are AOE (Anywhere on Earth).

 

Papers:

  Paper submission:             January 24, 2017 (Tuesday)

  Author response period:    March 20-22, 2017 (Monday - Wednesday)

  Author notification:             April 12, 2017 (Wednesday)

  Final version:                     May 5, 2017 (Friday)

 

Conference:

Workshops                         July 22-23, 2017

Main conference                July 24-28, 2017

 

Submission URL

http://cav2017.mpi-sws.org/

 

Scope

CAV 2017 is the 29th in a series dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis and synthesis methods for hardware and software systems.  CAV considers it vital to continue spurring advances in hardware and software verification while expanding to domains such as cyber-physical, social, and biological systems.  The conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical verification tools and the algorithms and techniques that are needed for their implementation. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series. A selection of papers will be invited to a special issue of Formal Methods in System Design and the Journal of the ACM.

 

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Algorithms and tools for verifying models and implementations

Algorithms and tools for system synthesis

Mathematical and logical foundations of verification and synthesis

Specifications and correctness criteria for programs and systems

Deductive verification using proof assistants

Hardware verification techniques

Program analysis and software verification

Software synthesis

Hybrid systems and embedded systems verification

Compositional and abstraction-based techniques for verification

Probabilistic and statistical approaches to verification

Verification methods for parallel and concurrent systems

Testing and run-time analysis based on verification technology

Decision procedures and solvers for verification and synthesis

Applications and case studies in verification and synthesis

Verification in industrial practice

New application areas for algorithmic verification and synthesis

Formal models and methods for security

Formal models and methods for biological systems

 

Paper Submission

 

NEW this year:

1. There is no separate registration deadline. Full papers should be uploaded by the submission deadline.

2. Tool papers require a concurrent artifact submission together with the paper submission. Artifact evaluation occurs concurrently with the review process and the PC gets access to the artifact evaluation during the PC discussions.

 

Submissions on a wide range of topics are sought, particularly ones that identify new research directions.  CAV 2017 is not limited to topics discussed in previous instances of the conference.  Authors concerned about the appropriateness of a topic may communicate with the conference chairs prior to submission.

 

As explained below, CAV 2017 will follow a lightweight double-blind review process.  Submissions that are not "blinded" will be rejected without review.  Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed.  The review process will include a feedback/rebuttal period where authors will have the option to respond to reviewer comments.  The PC chairs may solicit further reviews after the rebuttal period.

 

Papers must be submitted in PDF format a href="https://cav2017.mpi-sws.org>here</a>.</p> <p> </p> <p>Submissions will be in two categories: Regular Papers and Tool Papers.</p> <p> </p> <p>Regular Papers</p> <p> </p> <p>Regular Papers should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format, not counting references and appendices.  Authors can include a clearly marked appendix at the end of their submissions, that is exempt from the page limit restrictions. However, the reviewers are not obliged to read the contents of these appendices.  These papers should contain original research and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the contribution.  Papers will be evaluated on basis of a combination of correctness, technical depth, significance, novelty, clarity, and elegance. We welcome papers on theory, case studies, and comparisons with existing experimental research, as well as combinations of new theory with experimental evaluation.  A strong theoretical paper is not required to have an experimental component.  On the other hand, strong papers reproducing and comparing existing results experimentally do not require new theoretical insights.</p> <p> </p> <p>We encourage authors to provide any supplementary material that is required to support the claims made in the paper, such as detailed proofs or experimental data.  These materials should be uploaded at submission time, as a single pdf or a tarball, not via a URL.  It will be made available to reviewers only after they have submitted their first-draft reviews and hence need not be anonymized.  Reviewers are under no obligation to look at the supplementary material but may refer to it if they have questions about the material in the body of the paper.</p> <p> </p> <p>Tool Papers</p> <p> </p> <p>Tool Papers should not exceed 6 pages, not counting references.  These papers should describe system and implementation aspects of a tool with a large (potential) user base (experiments not required, rehash of theory strongly discouraged).  Papers describing tools that have already been presented (in any conference) will be accepted only if significant and clear enhancements to the tool are reported and implemented.  Note that tool papers require the submission of an artifact for evaluation by the submission deadline.  Artifacts will be evaluated concurrently with the review process and the program committee will have access to the artifact evaluation while making their decision.  In special cases, where an artifact cannot be submitted, the authors should contact the program chairs to find alternate modes of artifact evaluation.</p> <p> </p> <p>Lightweight Double-Blind Reviewing Process</p> <p> </p> <p>CAV 2017 will employ a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. This means that committee members will not have access to authors' names or affiliations as they review a paper; however, authors' names will be revealed once reviews have been submitted.</p> <p> </p> <p>To facilitate this, submitted papers must adhere to two rules: Author names and institutions must be omitted, and references to authors' own related work should be in the third person (e.g., not "We build on our previous work..." but rather "We build on the work of ...").

 

The purpose of this process is to help the PC and external reviewers come to an initial judgement about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible for them to discover the authors if they were to try.  Nothing should be done in the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of reviewing the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating new ideas. For example, important background references should *not* be omitted or anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common ideas, techniques, or infrastructure.  Authors should feel free to disseminate their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would.  For instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give talks on their research ideas.

 

 

Artifact Evaluation

 

Authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to submit (but are not required to submit) the relevant artifact for evaluation by the artifact evaluation committee.

 

Authors of tool papers are required to submit their artifact to the artifact evaluation committee at the paper submission time.  Unlike regular papers, the results of the artifact evaluation for tool papers will be available to the program committee during the online discussions.

 

 

Organization

 

Chairs

Viktor Kuncak, EPFL, Switzerland

Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany

 

CAV Award Committee

Tom Ball  (Chair), Microsoft research

Kim G. Larsen, Aalborg University

Natarajan Shankar, SRI International

Pierre Wolper, Liege University

 

Program Committee

Aws Albarghouthi

Christel Baier

Per Bjesse

Jasmin Blanchette

Sergiy Bogomolov

Ahmed Bouajjani

Rohit Chadha

Bor-Yuh Evan Chang

Swarat Chaudhuri

Wei-Ngan Chin

Hana Chockler

Alessandro Cimatti

Isil Dilig

Dino Distefano

Cezara Dragoi

Michael Emmi

Javier Esparza

Georgios Fainekos

Azadeh Farzan

Aarti Gupta

Gerard Holzmann

Marieke Huisman

Radu Iosif

Franjo Ivancic

Stefan Kiefer

Zachary Kincaid

Barbara König

Daniel Kröning

Viktor Kuncak(Co-chair)

Rustan Leino

Rupak Majumdar (Co-chair)

Kenneth McMillan

Alexander Nadel

Madhusudan Parthasarathy

Corina Pasareanu

Nadia Polikarpova

Pavithra Prabhakar

Arjun Radhakrishna

Zvonimir Rakamaric

Andrey Rybalchenko

Roopsha Samanta

Rahul Sharma

Anna Slobodova

Ana Sokolova

Fabio Somenzi

Zhendong Su

Serdar Tasiran

Emina Torlak

Willem Visser

Mahesh Viswanathan

Yakir Vizel

Tomas Vojnar

Thomas Wahl

Bow-Yaw Wang

Georg Weissenbacher

Verena Wolf

Lenore Zuck

Damien Zufferey

 

Workshop Chair

Eva Darulova, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany

 

Publicity Chair

Mikael Mayer, EPFL

 

Steering Committee

Orna Grumberg, Technion, Israel

Aarti Gupta, Princeton University, USA

Daniel Kroening, University of Oxford, UK

Kenneth McMillan, Microsoft Research, USA

 

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