*************************************************************************** DIFTS'14 DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of FORMAL TOOLS and SYSTEMS CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** Third International Workshop on Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems (co-located with FMCAD 2014, and MEMOCODE 2014) http://fmgroup.polito.it/cabodi/difts2014/ Lausanne, Switzerland October 20, 2014 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: August 4, 2014 (postponed from July 28, 2014) Paper submission: August 10, 2014 (postponed from August 4, 2014) Author notification: September 1, 2014 DIFTS (Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems) workshop emphasizes insightful experiences in formal tools and systems design. The workshop provides an opportunity for discussing engineering aspects and various design decisions required to put formal tools and systems into practical use. In the past, we have invited speakers who have shared their deep insights and discussed the practices followed in the Industry towards adopting formal methods. It provides a forum for sharing challenges and solutions that are original with ground breaking results. The DIFTS workshop is co-located with FMCAD14 and MEMOCODE14. TOPICS OF INTEREST DIFTS takes a broad view of the formal tools/systems area, and solicits contributions from domains including, but not restricted to, decision procedures, verification, testing, validation, diagnosis, debugging, and synthesis. This workshop encourages and appreciates system development activities, and facilitates transparency in the experimentation. It will also serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in practicing formal methods. INVITED SPEAKERS Rolf Drechsler, University of Bremen, Germany "Coverage at the Formal Specification Level" Wolfgang Kunz, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany "The big hurdles for FV tools in industrial practice – can we overcome them insystem-level design flows?" Fahim Rahim, Atrenta, France "Efficiently using formal verification techniques to reduce power" SUBMISSION The workshop specifically solicits contributions with substantial engineering details that often do not get published but have significant practical impact. Papers in the following two categories are solicited: (a) system category (10 pages, double column, 11pt), and (b) tool category (8 pages, double column, 11pt). In the system category, we invite papers that have original ideas accompanied with novel integration techniques, adequate design/implementation details, important design choices made and explored, and good experimental results. In the tool category, we invite papers that focus primarily on the engineering aspects of some known/popular algorithm, with significant emphasis on the design/implementation details, and various design choices made to advance current state-of-the-art approaches. The page limit for submissions in the system category is 10 pages in double column format and for submissions in the tool category is 8 pages in double column format. Submission of papers should be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. EVALUATION To keep maintain uniformity and fairness in the reviewing process, the program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission based on the following guidelines: the paper should provide enough details for others to reproduce the results; and should solve a clearly-stated problem that is significant and has wide interest; and the paper should provide enough motivation for the design choices made. Overall, the paper should also clearly identify what the main contributions of the work are. PUBLICATION All accepted contributions will be included in informal proceedings. High quality submissions will be considered for a special issue of journals such as FMSD (Formal Methods in System Design) or IEEE TC (Transactions on Computers). ORGANIZATION PROGRAM CHAIRS Malay K. Ganai, Atrenta, USA Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research, USA Roberto Bruttomesso, Atrenta, France Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST, Italy Alper Sen, Bogazici University, Turkey Joao Marques-Silva, University College Dublin, Ireland Priyank Kalla, University of Utah, USA Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay, India Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto, Canada Daniel Grosse, University of Bremen, Germany WEBMASTERS Pasini Paolo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Marco Palena, Politecnico di Torino, Italy