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iFM 2024 Call for Papers - 19th International Conference on Integrated Formal 
Methods
https://ifm2024.cs.manchester.ac.uk/

***Objectives and scope***
In the last decades, we have witnessed a proliferation of approaches that 
integrate several modelling, verification and simulation techniques, 
facilitating more versatile and efficient analysis of software-intensive 
systems. These approaches provide powerful support for the analysis of 
different functional and non-functional properties of the systems, complex 
interaction of components of different nature as well as validation of 
diverse aspects of system behaviour. The iFM conference series is a forum for 
discussing recent research advances in the development of integrated 
approaches to formal modelling and analysis. The conference covers all 
aspects of the design of integrated techniques, including language design, 
verification and validation, automated tool support and the use of such 
techniques in software engineering practice. To credit the effort of tool 
developers, we use EAPLS artifact badging.

Areas of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Formal and semi-formal modelling notations
- Combining formal methods with different performance, simulation and system 
analysis techniques
- Program verification, model checking, and static analysis
- Theorem proving, decision procedures and SAT/SMT solving
- Runtime analysis, monitoring and testing
- Program synthesis
- Modelling, analysis and synthesis of cyber-physical, hybrid, embedded, 
probabilistic, distributed or concurrent systems
- Abstraction and refinement
- Model learning and inference
- Approaches to integrating formal methods into software engineering practice 
or industry
- Approaches to integrating formal methods into standardisation or 
certification processes
- Formal methods for artificial intelligence, including machine learning and 
data-based techniques
- Tools and case studies supporting the integration of formal methods

***Important Dates (AoE)***

Abstract submission:  3 June 2024
Paper submission: 10 June 2024
Acceptance notification: 5 August 2024
Artifact Registration: 12 August 2024
Artifact Submission: 19 August 2024
Artifact Notification: 16 September 2024
Camera-ready: 18 September 2024
iFM 2024 main conference: 13-15 November 2024


***Paper Categories***

iFM 2024 solicits high-quality papers reporting research results and/or 
experience reports related to the overall theme of formal methods integration.
We solicit papers in the following categories:

(1) Regular papers (limit 16 pages) presenting original scientific research 
results,
tools, their foundation and evaluations, applications of formal methods, 
including rigorous evaluations and case studies.

(2) Short papers (limit 6 pages) describing any work in the area of formal 
methods, including work-in-progress and preliminary results that are 
sufficiently interesting for the iFM community.

All page limits exclude the references. Appendices may be included, but they 
will only be read by a reviewer at their discretion.

Regular and short papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for 
publication elsewhere. Papers will undergo a thorough review process. 
Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, 
correctness, originality, and clarity.

The submissions will be reviewed and selected for publication based on the 
above-mentioned criteria as well as suitability to the conference’s 
technical program. The review process is single blind.

***Submission guidelines***
Submissions for all categories should be made using the iFM 2024 EasyChair 
site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm24

Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files.

Springer requires that authors should consult Springer’s authors’ 
guidelines and use their proceedings templates, either for LaTeX or for Word, 
for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include 
their ORCIDs in their papers. After a paper is accepted, the corresponding 
author of each paper, acting on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, 
must complete and sign a Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author 
signing the copyright form should match the corresponding author marked on 
the paper. Once the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the 
authorship of the papers cannot be made.

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in 
Computer Science series. A special issue of the Formal Aspects of Computing 
journal is planned for extended versions of selected papers from iFM 2024.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. At least one author 
of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early 
registration date.

***EAPLS Artifact Badging***
Reproducibility of experiments is crucial to foster an atmosphere of open, 
reusable and trustworthy research. To improve and reward reproducibility and 
to give more visibility and credit to the effort of tool developers in our 
community, authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit possible 
artifacts associated with their paper for evaluation, and based on the level 
of reproducibility they will be awarded one or more badges. See 
https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/.

Artifact submission is optional and the result of the artifact evaluation 
will not alter the paper’s acceptance decision.
iFM 2024 important dates


***Best Paper ***

iFM 2024 will honor the best paper selected with respect to reviews, program 
committee discussions and conference presentations with an award.

***Contact***
In case of questions, please contact ifm24 AT easychair.org.