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Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) 2025 - 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, introducenew
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
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, TU Wien, Austria
Thomas Hader, TU Wien, Austria
Clark Barrett, Stanford University, CA, USA
Armin Biere, University of Freiburg, Germany
Ruzica Piskac, Yale University, USA
Anna Slobodova, ARM, USA
Georg Weissenbacher, TU Wien, Austria
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