VMCAI 2024: 25th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation Institution of Engineering and Technology London, UK, January 15-16, 2024 |
Conference website | https://popl24.sigplan.org/home/VMCAI-2024 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vmcai2024 |
Submission deadline | September 7, 2023 |
VMCAI 2024 is the 25th International Conference on Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. The conference will be held during January 15-16, 2024. VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation, facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of hybrid methods that combine these and related areas.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are required to follow Springer’s LNCS format. The page limit depends on the paper’s category (see below). In each category, additional material beyond the page limit may be placed in a clearly marked appendix, to be read at the discretion of the reviewers and to be omitted in the final version. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website. Submission is via EasyChair.
Submissions will undergo a single-blind review process. There will be three categories of papers: regular papers, tool papers and case studies. Papers in each category have a different page limit and will be evaluated differently.
Regular papers clearly identify and justify an advance to the field of verification, abstract interpretation, or model checking. Where applicable, they are supported by experimental validation. Regular papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references.
Tool papers present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to an existing tool. They should provide a short description of the theoretical foundations with relevant citations, and emphasize the design and implementation concerns, including software architecture and core data structures. A regular tool paper should give a clear account of the tool’s functionality, discuss the tool’s practical capabilities with reference to the type and size of problems it can handle, describe experience with realistic case studies, and where applicable, provide a rigorous experimental evaluation. Papers that present extensions to existing tools should clearly focus on the improvements or extensions with respect to previously published versions of the tool, preferably substantiated by data on enhancements in terms of resources and capabilities. Authors are strongly encouraged to make their tools publicly available and submit an artifact. Tool papers are restricted to 12 pages in LNCS format, not counting references.
Case studies are expected to describe the use of verification, model checking, and abstract interpretation techniques in new application domains or industrial settings. Papers in this category do not necessarily need to present original research results but are expected to contain novel applications of formal methods techniques as well as an evaluation of these techniques in the chosen application domain. Such papers are encouraged to discuss the unique challenges of transferring research ideas to a real-world setting and reflect on any lessons learned from this technology transfer experience. Case study papers are restricted to 20 pages in LNCS format, not counting references. (Shorter case study papers are also welcome.)
Important Dates
All dates are AoE (UTC-12)
- September 7th (extended)
August 31st, 2023 Paper submission - October 11th, 2023 Notification
- October 31st, 2023 Camera-ready
List of Topics
The program will consist of refereed research papers as well as invited lectures and tutorials. Research contributions can report new results as well as experimental evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques.
Topics include, but are not limited to:
- Program Verification
- Model Checking
- Abstract Interpretation
- Abstract Domains
- Program Synthesis
- Static Analysis
- Type Systems
- Deductive Methods
- Program Logics
- First-Order Theories
- Decision Procedures
- Interpolation
- Horn Clause Solving
- Program Certification
- Separation Logic
- Probabilistic Programming and Analysis
- Error Diagnosis
- Detection of Bugs and Security Vulnerabilities
- Program Transformations
- Hybrid and Cyber-physical Systems
- Concurrent and Distributed Systems
- Analysis of numerical properties
- Analysis of smart contracts
- Analysis of neural networks
- Case Studies on all of the above topics
Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, and object-oriented programming.
Artifacts
VMCAI 2024 allows authors to submit an artifact along with a paper. Artifacts are any additional material that substantiates the claims made in the paper, and ideally makes them fully replicable. Artifacts of interest include (but are not limited to):
- Software, Tools, or Frameworks
- Data sets
- Test suites
- Machine checkable proofs
- Any combination of them
- Any other artifact described in the paper
Artifact submission is optional. However, we highly encourage all authors to also submit an artifact. A successfully evaluated artifact can increase your chance of being accepted since the evaluation result of your artifact is taken into account during the paper review. The artifact will be evaluated in parallel with the submission by the artifact evaluation committee (AEC).
Committees
Program Committee
- Ezio Bartocci (Technische Universität Wien)
- Nathalie Bertrand (INRIA Rennes)
- Emanuele De Angelis (CNR-IASI)
- Coen De Roover (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
- Jyotirmoy Deshmukh (University of Southern California)
- Bruno Dutertre (Amazon Web Services)
- Michael Emmi (Amazon Web Services)
- Grigory Fedyukovich (Florida State University)
- Nathanaël Fijalkow (CNRS, LaBRI, and Alan Turing Institute)
- Hadar Frenkel (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security)
- Amir Kafshdar Goharshady (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
- Liana Hadarean (Amazon Web Services)
- Jochen Hoenicke (Universität Freiburg)
- Hossein Hojjat (Tehran Institute for Advanced Studies (TeIAS))
- Qinheping Hu (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
- Marieke Huisman (University of Twente)
- Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen University)
- Daniela Kaufmann (TU Wien)
- Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan (Delft University of Technology)
- Bettina Könighofer (TU Graz)
- Anna Lukina (TU Delft)
- Roland Meyer (TU Braunschweig)
- David Monniaux (Grenoble Alps University / CNRS / Grenoble INP / VERIMAG)
- Kedar Namjoshi (Nokia Bell Labs)
- Jens Palsberg (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
- Elizabeth Polgreen (University of Edinburgh)
- Arjun Radhakrishna (Microsoft)
- Robert Rand (University of Chicago)
- Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova)
- Xavier Rival (Inria; ENS; CNRS; PSL University)
- Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University)
- Anne-Kathrin Schmuck (MPI-SWS)
- Mihaela Sighireanu (IRIF, Université Paris Diderot)
- Gagandeep Singh (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
- Hazem Torfah (University of California, Berkeley)
- Zhen Zhang (Utah State University)
- Lenore Zuck (UIC)
Organizing committee
- Rayna Dimitrova (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) PC Co-chair
- Ori Lahav (Tel Aviv University) PC Co-chair
- Sebastian Wolff (New York University) AEC chair
Publication
All accepted papers will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. The corresponding author of each paper will need to complete and sign a License-to-Publish form to be submitted together with the camera-ready version.
Accepted papers must be presented at the conference.
Venue
VMCAI 2024 will take place in the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Savoy Place, London. The conference is co-located with POPL 2024.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the PC co-chairs Rayna Dimitrova and Ori Lahav.