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Call for Papers: FORMALISE 2025

13th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering

27 and 28 April, 2025

  co-located with ICSE 2025 (April 27-May 3, 2025), Ottawa, Canada

https://conf.researchr.org/home/Formalise-2025

Overview

Historically, formal methods academic research and practical software 
development have had limited mutual interactions — except possibly in 
specialized domains such as safety-critical software. In recent times, the 
outlook has considerably improved: on the one hand, formal methods research 
has delivered more flexible techniques and tools that can support various 
aspects of the software development process: from user requirements 
elicitation, to design, implementation, verification and validation, as well 
as the creation of documentation. On the other hand, software engineering has 
developed a growing interest in rigorous techniques applied at scale.

The FormaliSE conference series promotes work at the intersection of the 
formal methods and software engineering communities, providing a venue to 
exchange ideas, experiences, techniques, and results. We believe more 
collaboration between these two communities can be mutually beneficial by 
fostering the creation of formal methods that are practically useful and by 
helping develop higher-quality software.

Originally a workshop event, since 2018 FormaliSE has been organized as a 
conference co-located with ICSE. The 13th edition of FormaliSE will also take 
place as a co-located conference of ICSE 2025.

Areas of interest include but are not limited to:

    requirements formalization and formal specification;

    approaches, methods and tools for verification and validation;

    formal approaches to safety and security related issues;

    analysis of performance and other non-functional properties based on 
formal approaches;

    scalability of formal method applications

    integration of formal methods within the software development lifecycle 
(e.g., change management, continuous integration, regression testing, and 
deployment)

    model-based engineering approaches;

    correctness-by-construction approaches for software and systems 
engineering;

    application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g., autonomous, 
cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems;

    formal methods for AI-based systems (FM4AI), and AI applied in formal 
method approaches (AI4FM);

    formal methods in a certification context

    case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches

    experience reports on the application of formal methods to real-world 
problems;

    guidelines to use formal methods in practice;

    usability of formal methods.


Important dates:

    Abstracts due: 18 November 2024 (AoE) - EXTENDED DEADLINE

    Submissions: 25 November 2024 (AoE) - EXTENDED DEADLINE

    Notifications: 13 January 2025

    Camera ready copies: 5 February 2025

    FormaliSE conference: 27-28 April 2025


Paper submission guidelines
 We accept papers in three categories:

    Full research papers describing original research work and results. We 
encourage authors to include validation of their contributions by means of a 
case study or experiments.  We also welcome research papers focusing on tools 
and tool development.

    Case study papers discussing a significant application that suggests 
general lessons learned and motivates further research, or empirically 
validates theoretical results (such as a technique's scalability).

    Research ideas papers describing new ideas in preliminary form, in a way 
that can stimulate interesting discussions at the conference, and suggest 
future work.


All papers submitted to the FormaliSE 2025 conference must be written in 
English, must be unpublished original work, and must not be under review or 
submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. Submissions must comply with 
the FormaliSE's lightweight double-anonymous review process (see below).

Full research papers and case study papers can take up to 10 pages including 
all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding references. Research 
ideas papers can take up to 4 pages, plus up to 1 additional page solely for 
references.

To avoid that authors waste time fitting their papers into the stated limit 
at the expense of presentation clarity, paper lengths slightly exceeding the 
stated limit will still be considered, provided that the reviewers find that 
the presentation is of high quality.

All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the IEEE conference 
proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference Proceedings Formatting 
Guidelines (i.e., title in 24pt font and full text in 10pt type): 
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html 

In LaTeX, use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without including the 
compsoc or compsocconf options. 


To submit a paper to FormaliSE 2025 use thisHotCRP link: 
https://formalise25.hotcrp.com/

Lightweight Double-Blind Review Process for Papers
As in recent editions, FormaliSE 2025 will use a lightweight double-anonymous 
process. Authors must omit their names and institutions from the title page, 
cite their own work in the third person, and omit acknowledgments that may 
reveal their identity or affiliation. The purpose is reducing chances of 
reviewer bias influenced by the authors’ identities. The double-anonymous 
process is, however, lightweight, which means that it should not pose a heavy 
burden for authors, nor should make a paper's presentation weaker or more 
difficult to review. Also, advertising the paper as part of your usual 
research activities (for example, on your personal web-page, in a pre-print 
archive, by email, in talks or discussions with colleagues) is permitted 
without penalties.

Paper selection
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members that 
will judge its overall quality in terms of its soundness, significance, 
novelty, verifiability, and presentation clarity.

FormaliSE 2025 will adopt a lightweight response process: if all the 
reviewers of a given paper agree that a clarification from the authors 
regarding a specific question could move the paper from "borderline" to 
"accept", the chairs will relay the reviewers' questions to the authors by 
email, and then share their reply with the reviewers in HotCRP. The goal of 
lightweight responses is reducing the chance of  random decisions on  
borderline papers. Hence, they will only be used for a minority of 
submissions; most papers will not require such an author response. 
Nevertheless, we would ask the corresponding authors of all submissions to 
make sure that they are available to answer questions by email upon request.

Artifact Evaluation
Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an atmosphere of 
trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and reward 
reproducibility, FormaliSE 2025 continues its Artifact Evaluation (AE) 
procedure. An artifact is any additional material (software, data sets, 
machine-checkable proofs, etc.) that substantiates the claims made in the 
paper and ideally makes them fully reproducible.

Submission of an artifact is optional but encouraged for all papers where it 
can support the results presented in the paper. Artifact review is 
single-anonymous (the paper corresponding to an artifact must still follow 
the double-anonymous submissions requirements) and will be conducted 
concurrently with the paper reviewing process. Artifacts will be handled by a 
separate Artifact Evaluation Committee, and the Artifact Evaluation process 
will be set up such that the anonymization of the corresponding papers will 
not be compromised. Accepted papers with a successfully evaluated artefact 
will be awarded the [EAPLS badges (https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/) 
that apply (among "Functional", "Reusable", and "Available"). Awarded badges 
are to be added to the camera-ready version of the paper.

Artifacts will be assessed with respect to their consistency with the results 
presented in the paper, their completeness, their documentation, and their 
ease of use. The Artifact Evaluation will include an initial check for 
technical issues; authors of artifacts may be contacted by email within the 
first two weeks after artifact submission to help resolve any technical 
problems that prevent the evaluation of an artifact if necessary.

The results of an artifact evaluation will not be available to the reviewers 
of the corresponding paper; hence, they will not affect the paper's 
acceptance decision. However, reviewers will know whether a paper has 
submitted *any* artifacts; this piece of information may be taken into 
account to decide whether the paper should be accepted. Thus, if there are 
justifiable reasons why a paper's artifacts cannot be submitted, they should 
be pointed out in the paper so that the reviewers can appreciate them and 
adjust their expectations accordingly.

Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will be 
described in a dedicated page inFormaliSE 2025's website.

Publication
All accepted papers are published as part of the ICSE 2025 Proceedings in the 
ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for the 
conference and present the paper at the conference — physically or, if the 
circumstances do not allow so, virtually. Failure to register an author will 
result in a paper being removed from the proceedings.

General Chairs

    Stefania Gnesi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione, Italy

    Nico Plat, Thanos, The Netherlands


Program Chairs

    Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA

    Gwen Salaün, University Grenoble Alpes, France


Artifact Evaluation Chairs

    Ákos Hajdu, Meta, UK

    Lina Marsso, University of Toronto, Canada


Social Media Chair

    Quentin Nivon, University Grenoble Alpes, France


Program committee

    Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria

    Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan 

    Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea 

    Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 

    Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France

    Giovanna Broccia, ISTI - CNR, Italy

    Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK 

    Pablo Castro, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina 

    Zhenbang Chen, NUDT, China

    Nancy Day, University of Waterloo, Canada

    Francisco Durán, University of Málaga, Spain

    Marie Farrell, University of Manchester, UK 

    Carlo A. Furia, USI Lugano, Switzerland   

    Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran 

    Divya Gopinath, KBR/ NASA Ames Research Center, USA 

    Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Concordia University, Canada

    Paula Herber, University of Münster, Germany 

    Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands 

    Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan 

    Xiaoqing Jin, Apple Inc., USA

    Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway

    Oleksandr Kolchyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine 

    Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal 

    Larissa Meinicke, University of Queensland, Australia 

    Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia

    Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden 

    Arpit Sharma, EECS Department, IISER Bhopal, India 

    Allison Sullivan, University of Texas, Arlington, USA

    Heike Wehrheim, University of Oldenburg, Germany