FMTea 2024: Formal Methods Teaching Workshop Politecnico di Milano Milan, Italy, September 10, 2024

Conference website	https://fmtea.github.io/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmtea2024

Formal methods originated as a means for the rigorous construction of software systems. While formal methods are increasingly being used in industry in recent years, university curricula are not adapting at the same pace. Some existing formal methods classes interest and challenge students, whereas others fail to ignite student motivation. In particular, after the pandemic, student engagement has not returned to the status quo ante. It is thus important to develop, share, and discuss approaches to effectively teach formal methods to the next generations.

We envision this event as a one-day combination of keynote and workshop presentations, where various models of teaching are presented and explored, together with innovative approaches relevant to educators of Formal Methods in the 21st century.

Organization

FMTea'24 is organized by FME’s Teaching Committee. Our broad aim is to support a worldwide improvement in learning Formal Methods, mainly by teaching but also via self-learning. To that end, we have already gathered a list of FM courses taught worldwide (https://fme-teaching.github.io) and plan to collect other resources as well, such as FM case studies, FM inspirational papers, etc. Furthermore, the FME Teaching Committee coordinates a tutorial series held online. Tutorials are collected on the FME Teaching Committee website (https://fme-teaching.github.io/).

Topics

FMTea'24 invites high-quality papers reporting on opinions, approaches, and experiences related to the topic of teaching Formal Methods. We aim to attract papers detailing authors’ experiences with FM Teaching. We welcome papers discussing the successes and failures of various methods, case studies, tools, etc. As self-learning is an emerging aspect of formal methods, we appreciate experiences with online teaching, including experiences with teaching formal methods via MOOCs. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest for the FMTea'24 workshop is below:

• Experiences and proposals related to "traditional" and online FM learning and teaching
• Integrating and embedding formal methods within other computer science courses
• Teaching formal methods for industry
• Innovative learning and teaching methods, like automated grading and automated feedback using Large Language Models
• Student projects, including group projects

Software development is transforming into a rigorous engineering discipline. Improved teaching techniques will ensure that FM is at the heart of this transformation process.

Submission Details

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three PC members. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). We suggest using the LaTeX2e package (the llncs.cls class file, available in llncs2e.zip and the typeinst.dem available in typeinst.zip as a template for your contribution). Papers should not exceed 15 pages (including references) in length. Submissions should be made using the FMTea'24 Easychair website:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmtea2024

All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by an early date, to be indicated by the FM 2024 organizers, and present the paper.

Important Dates – Updated

• 24 May 2024: Deadline for submission of abstract
• 30 May 2024: Deadline for submission of full paper
• 28 June 2024: Notifications to authors
• 12 July 2024: Deadline for camera-ready version
• 10 September 2024: FMTea'24 Workshop

Program Committee

Program Committee Chairs

• Leila Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
• Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada

Program Committee

• Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France
• Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, France
• Brijesh Dongol, University of Surrey, UK
• João F. Ferreira, INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Stefan Hallerstede, Aarhus University, Denmark
• Thierry Lecomte, CLEARSY, France
• Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany
• Alexandra Mendes, INESC TEC & Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal
• Tim Nelson, Brown University, US
• Markus Kuppe, Microsoft, US
• David Pearce, ConsenSys & Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
• Luigia Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland
• Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Graeme Smith, The University of Queensland, Australia

Invited Speaker

TBA

Previous Editions

The previous editions are listed on the workshop homepage (https://fmtea.github.io/).

Publication

The proceedings will be published in the Formal Methods Teaching series of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/conference/tfm).

Venue

FMTea'24 is affiliated with FM 2024 (https://www.fm24.polimi.it/), the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, held at Politecnico di Milano, September 9 – 13, 2024.

Contact

Questions about submissions should be directed to the program committee chairs, Leila Ribeiro <leila@inf.ufrgs.br> and Emil Sekerinski <emil@mcmaster.ca>.