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Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) 2025 - Second Call
for Papers
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FMCAD 2025 is the twenty-fifth edition in a series of conferences on the
theory and
applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. The
conference
encompasses a wide range of topics related to formal aspects of
computer-aided system
design, including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing
and provides
a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting
and discussing
groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for
reasoning
formally about computing systems.
Conference Website: https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/
Conference Location: SRI Headquarters, Menlo Park, California, US
Conference Dates: October 6 - October 10, 2025
FMCAD 2025 includes the FMCAD Student Forum
(https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/student_forum/)
and is co-located with VSTTE 2025.
FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on
advances in all
aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer-aided design.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and
reduction,
compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level,
probabilistic
methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures.
Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling,
specification,
and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their
subsets, model-based
design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction
methods.
Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and
non-functional
specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing
and power
modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of
abstraction, system-level
design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems,
automotive
systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design
and verification,
and transaction-level verification.
Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to
industrial-scale
designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, introduce
new features,
or substantially improve the automation of formal methods.
Application of formal methods to verifying safety, connectivity and
security properties
of networks, distributed systems, smart contracts, block chains, and IoT
devices.
Application of formal methods to the analysis of machine learning
systems, and
applications of machine learning to enhance formal methods techniques.
All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth)
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=fmcad2025
Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case
Study papers.
Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas,
theoretical results,
or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental
impact validation
where applicable.
Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design,
implementation
or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant
context
(which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes.
Both Regular and Tool & Case Study papers must use the IEEE Transactions
format on
letter-size paper with a 10-point font size; preferably, use the FMCAD
template for
papers. Papers in both categories can be either 8 pages (long) or 4
pages (short)
in length excluding references. Short papers that describe emerging
results, practical
experiences, or original ideas that can be described succinctly are
encouraged. Authors
will be required to select an appropriate paper category at abstract
submission time.
Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in
the final
version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality
and the
relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix.
Submissions in all categories must contain original research that has
not been previously
published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial
overlap with
published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated.
FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process and each submission will be
reviewed
by at least four members of the program committee. The review process is
single-blind.
The review process will incorporate a feedback and rebuttal period
during which authors
will have the opportunity to formally respond to reviewer comments.
New - Artifact Evaluation: FMCAD 2025 introduces optional artifact
evaluation
to enhance transparency and the usability of research outcomes. Authors
reporting
experimental results are strongly encouraged to publish their final data
in a long-term
repository (e.g. zenodo (https://zenodo.org)). With artifacts serving as
supplementary
evidence, high-quality artifacts can improve the likelihood of paper
acceptance.
Artifact evaluation will be integrated into the main review process,
with one selected
program committee member assessing the quality of the artifact alongside
the paper.
Accepted artifacts require a DOI and will be clearly identified in the
published
paper. Details are available on the Artifacts Page
(https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/cfa).
Accepted papers are published by TU Wien Academic Press under a Creative
Commons
license (the authors retain the copyright) and distributed through the
IEEE XPlore
digital library. IEEE CEDA is a technical co-sponsor of FMCAD. There are
no publication
fees. Authors of accepted contributions will be required to sign the
FMCAD copyright
transfer form found here: https://fmcad.or.at/pdf/copyright.pdf.
For each accepted paper, at least one unique author must register for
the conference.
Moreover, authors of accepted papers ensure that at least one of them
will attend
the conference and present the work.
Continuing the tradition of the previous years, FMCAD 2025 will host a
Student Forum
that provides a platform for graduate students at any career stage to
introduce their
research to the wider Formal Methods community, and solicit feedback.
Submissions for the student forum must be short reports describing
research ideas
or ongoing work that the student is currently pursuing, and must be
within the scope
of FMCAD. Work that has been partly published previously might be
considered; the
novel aspect to be addressed in future work must be clearly described in
such cases.
All submissions will be reviewed by a selected group of FMCAD student
forum committee
members. Details are available on the Student Forum Page
(https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/student_forum).
Ahmed Irfan, SRI, CA, USA
Daniela Kaufmann, TU Wien, Austria
Guy Amir, Cornell University
Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University
Kshitij Bansal, Google
Haniel Barbosa, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Per Bjesse, Synopsys Inc.
Nikolaj Bjørner, Microsoft
Martin Blicha, University of Lugano
Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology
Rayna Dimitrova, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security
Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay
Aleksandar Chakarov, Phase Change Software LLC
Pascal Fontaine, Université de Liège
Katalin Fazekas, TU Wien
Divya Gopinath, NASA Ames (KBR Inc.)
Alberto Griggio, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo
Liana Hadarean, Amazon Web Services
Paula Herber, University of Münster
Osman Hasan, National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST)
Marijn Heule, Carnegie Mellon University
Antti Hyvarinen, Certora
Alexey Ignatiev, Monash University
Mitesh Jain, Rivos Inv.
Mikolas Janota, Czech Technical University in Prague
Susmit Jha, SRI International
Martin Jonas, Masaryk University
Jianwen Li, East China Normal University
Enrico Magnago, Amazon Web Services
Sergio Mover, Ecole Polytechnique
Antonina Nepeivoda, Program System Institute of RAS
Aina Niemetz, Stanford University
Mathias Preiner, Stanford University
Stefan Ratschan, Czech Academy of Sciences
Kristin Rozier, Iowa State University
Philipp Rümmer, University of Regensburg and Uppsala University
Mark Santolucito, Barnard College
Christoph Scholl, University of Freiburg
Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler Univeristy Linz
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International
Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano
Anna Slobodova, ARM
Mate Soos, Ethereum Foundation
Christoph Sticksel, The MathWorks
Nestan Tsiskaridze, Stanford University
Ashish Tiwari, Microsoft
Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien
Andrew Wu, Amherst College
Nisansala Yatapanage, Australian National University
Emily Yu, Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Cunxi Yu, University of Maryland
Zhen Zhang, Utah State University
Hongce Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou)
Yoni Zohar, Bar-Ilan University
Stéphane Graham-Lengrand, SRI, CA, USA
Jenny McNeill, SRI, CA, USA
Tanja Schindler, University of Basel, Switzerland
Lee A. Barnett, AWS, CA, USA
Alex Ozdemir, Stanford University, CA, USA
Georg Weissenbacher,
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