The 17th International Conference on Runtime Verification - RV 2017

 

September 13-16, Seattle, WA, USA

 

http://rv2017.cs.manchester.ac.uk

 

Call for Papers and Tutorials

 

Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. 

 

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

 

    specification languages

    monitor construction techniques

    program instrumentation

    logging, recording, and replay

    combination of static and dynamic analysis

    specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces

    monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems

    runtime checking of privacy and security policies

    statistical model checking

    metrics and statistical information gathering

    program/system execution visualization

    fault localization, containment, recovery and repair

    integrated vehicle health management (IVHM)

 

Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy.

 

We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis. Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories will not be treated differently from other contributions.

 

An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org.

 

RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017 will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days (September 14-16).

Important Dates

 

Papers as well as tutorial proposals will follow the following timeline:

 

    Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)

    Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)

    Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017

    Paper notification: June 26, 2017

    Conference: September 13-16, 2017

 

General Information on Submissions

 

All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here:

 

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

 

Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here:

 

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17

 

The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings.

 

At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present. 

Paper Submissions

 

There are three categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee.

 

    Regular Papers (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification.

    Short Papers (up to 6 pages, not including references) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. 

    Tool Demonstration Papers (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available with their submission.

 

The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and a selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal Methods in System Design.

Tutorial Submissions

 

Tutorials are two-to-three-hour presentations on a selected topic. Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of up to 20 pages in the LNCS conference proceedings, not including references.

 

A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a proposed timeline, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable) and the differences to this incarnation, and a brief biography of the presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages. 

Organization

 

General Chair

 

Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA

 

Program Chairs

 

Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK

Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research, USA

 

Finance Chair

 

Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA

 

Publicity Chair

 

Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France

 

Local Organisation Chairs

 

Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA

Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA

 

Program Committee

 

Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden

Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester, UK

Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Andreas Bauer, KUKA Systems, Germany

Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France

Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT and Technische University Darmstadt, Germany

Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada

Christian Colombo, University of Malta, Malta

Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, France

Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA

Lu Feng, University of Virginia, USA

Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA

Jean Goubault-Larrecq, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France

Alex Groce, Northern Arizona University, USA

Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Sylvain Hallé, University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada

Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands

Franjo Ivancic, Google

Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala University, Sweden

Felix Klaedtke, NEC Europe Ltd.

Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA

Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark

Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Axel Legay, Inria Rennes, France

Martin Leucker, University of Lübeck, Germany

Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research, USA

David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore

Francesco Logozzo, Facebook

Parthasarathy Madhusudan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy

Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research

Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France

Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta

Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel

Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Veselin Raychev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain

Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden

Rahul Sharma, Microsoft Research, USA

Julien Signoles, CEA LIST, France

Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA

Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Bernhard Steffen, University of Dortmund, Germany

Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA

Volker Stolz, University of Olso, Norway

Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University, Netherlands

Neil Walkinshaw, University of Leicester, UK

Chao Wang, University of Southern California, USA

Eugen Zalinescu, Technische Universitat München, Germany