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[Sandrine Blazy <Sandrine.Blazy AT irisa.fr>]

8th IFIP Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE 2016)
Co-located with 26th Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV 2016)
Toronto - Canada
July 17 - 18, 2016


The 8th IFIP Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich in 2005 followed by conferences in Toronto (2008), Edinburgh (2010), Philadelphia (2012), Atherton (2013), Vienna (2014), San Francisco (2015). The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art in the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. 

Important Dates

• Abstract submission:	April 25, 2016, anywhere on Earth (11.59 pm, UTC-12) 
• Full paper submission:	May 2, 2015, anywhere on Earth (11.59 pm, UTC-12)
• Notification:			June 6, 2016
• Conference:			July 17–18, 2016 
• Camera-ready:	 	August 28, 2016 

Scope

We welcome submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e., software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, education, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification case studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments. 


Submissions

We are accepting both long (limited to 16 pages) and short (limited to 10 pages) paper submissions. Short submissions also cover Verification Pearls describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. 

Research paper submissions must be in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results, and comparison to existing work. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. 

Papers can be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2016 
Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2016 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. The use of LaTeX and the Springer llncs class files, obtainable from the Springer website is strongly encouraged. 

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

Program Committee

Sandrine Blazy, (Rennes, France) Co-Chair 
Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada) Co-Chair 
Ernie Cohen (Amazon, USA) 
Temeghen Kahsai (NASA Ames / CMU , USA) General Chair
Natarajan Shankar (SRI, USA) 
Arie Gurfinkel (CMU / SEI, USA) 
Rustan Leino (Microsoft, USA) 
Natasha Sharygina (Lugano, Switzerland) 
Jean-Christophe Filliâtre (CNRS, France) 
Tiziana Margaria (LERO, Ireland) 
Vijay Ganesh (University of Waterloo, Canada) 
Bill Harris (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA) 
Nadia Polikarpova (MIT, USA) 
Kristin Yvonne Rozier (University of Cincinnati, USA)
Richard Trefler  (University of Waterloo, Canada) 
Mike Whalen  (University of Minnesota, USA) 
June Andronick (NICTA, Australia) 
Frédéric Besson (INRIA, France) 
Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft, USA) 
Vladimir Klebanov (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) 
David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology, USA) 
Deepak D'Souza (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India) 
Naijun Zhan (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)