Hi all,
I am excited to share that the Boston University Programming Languages and Verification group (POPV: https://www.bu.edu/cs/research-groups/popv/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cs/research-groups/popv/__;!!…>) is looking for PhD students.
The group consists of faculty and students with interests in programming languages, verification, type systems, and proof assistants with applications to distributed systems, cryptographic protocols, security, and differential privacy.
Members of the POPV group actively collaborate with other groups at Boston University, including the Boston University Security group (https://www.bu.edu/cs/groups/busec/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cs/groups/busec/__;!!IBzWLUs!…>), and at other universities in the Boston area like MIT, Northeastern, and Harvard.
Interested candidates are encouraged to apply and/or contact me or one of the other faculty in the group.
The deadline for applications is December 15, 2024.
The official application information can be found here: https://www.bu.edu/cs/phd-program/phd/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cs/phd-program/phd/__;!!IBzWL…>
Application fees can be waived for strong applicants, if needed. More details here:
https://www.bu.edu/cas/admissions/phd-mfa/apply/fee-waiver/<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.bu.edu/cas/admissions/phd-mfa/apply/…>
International students can also request a fee waiver by sending me an email.
All admitted PhD students will receive a 5-year fellowship offer, which may be a combination of a non-service fellowship, teaching fellowship or doctoral research assistant.
Boston University is a large private university in the heart of Boston with a rich tradition of inclusion and social justice. We are proud that we were the first American university to award a PhD to a woman (1877) and that Martin Luther King Jr. received his PhD here (1955).
The Boston area is home to a vibrant academic environment formed by multiple universities with a strong tradition in programming languages and verification, and it is also home to several startups and tech industries related to these research areas.
Please encourage your students to apply for a PhD position at Boston University and reach out to me if you have additional questions.
Ankush Das
Assistant Professor,
Computer Science Department
Boston University
Dear All
Ashoka University invites applications from final year undergraduate and
masters students for pre-doctoral research workshop 2025
<https://forms.gle/rPfGshT6qFteQj62A>. Registration closes *December 10.*
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Pre-doctoral Research Workshop
Department of Computer Science, Ashoka University
The Pre-doctoral Research Workshop offers aspiring doctoral candidates an
immersive experience into the world of interdisciplinary computer science
research at Ashoka University. Our department's research spans foundational
areas such as algorithms, cryptography, data science, logic and automated
reasoning, natural language processing, and machine learning, while also
extending beyond traditional boundaries into computational social sciences,
digital health, digitalization, privacy, and technology policy.
Final year undergraduate and masters students with mathematical and
computational backgrounds are invited to apply to this workshop and learn
from and engage with leading researchers, network with peers who share
their academic interests, and gain insights into doctoral studies and
graduate school preparation. The workshop participants are strongly
encouraged to also participate in the poster session and present their
original work (published, under submission, or ongoing).
Taking place from January 9th to 11th, 2025, at Ashoka University, Sonipat,
Haryana, this year's workshop will focus on how computer science intersects
with diverse disciplines—from natural sciences to social sciences. Through
our PhD and integrated PhD programs, we welcome students from all relevant
academic backgrounds, including non-CS disciplines, recognizing that
diverse perspectives drive innovation in computer science research. Join us
to explore these possibilities and discover your path toward pursuing a PhD
in Computer Science.
Registration Link: Here
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeT9oYyL-ul-IAo7C2S2PTDu7k5QXwYeT5…>
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For any queries, contact the organisers: cs.dept(a)ashoka.edu.in,
aalok.thakkar(a)ashoka.edu.in. Thank you and we look forward to your
participation.
*Aalok Thakkar*
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
aalok.thakkar(a)ashoka.edu.in | aalok-thakkar.github.io
Schedule an appointment <https://calendly.com/aalok-thakkar-ashoka/30min> with
me.
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Dear Colleagues,
Please find below the call for participation and talks for the Workshop on
automata and games for synthesis happening just after FSTTCS at IIT
Gandhinagar. Please distribute. Apologies for cross-posting.
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*Call for participation*
Workshop on automata and games for synthesis
<https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop>
Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India
December 19th, 2024
Co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical
Computer Science (FSTTCS) 2024
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Submission of contributed talks at:
https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/short-presentation
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About the workshop
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The first workshop on automata and games for synthesis is an on-site event
happening on the 19th of December, 2024, in Gandhinagar, India. It is
co-located with Foundations of Software Technology and Theoretical Computer
Science (FSTTCS) 2024, the premier international computer science
conference in India, and takes place each year in December since 1981.
Automated synthesis of systems from specifications has been a longstanding
goal of computer science. The workshop focuses on various aspects by which
automata and game solving are used to tackle problems motivated by
synthesis.
The workshop has several invited speakers and one session with
short-presentations. For the short-presentation, PhD students and postdocs
are encouraged to talk about their research in 10-15 minute sessions (exact
length will depend on the number of contributions). The workshop does not
have any proceedings, and therefore previously published talks or ongoing
work are both encouraged to be presented. Topics for the presentation at
the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following:
Automata Theory
Synthesis
Games on Finite and Infinite Graphs
Computational aspects of Game Theory
Concurrency and Distributed computation
Formal Languages
Games and Automata for Verification
Specification and Verification of Finite and Infinite-state Systems
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Important dates and information
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Deadline: November 14th (AoE)
Submit your contributions at:
https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/short-presentation
Notifications: November 18th 2024
Event: 19th December 2024
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Speakers
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Dmitry Chistikov (University of Warwick)
C. Aiswarya (Chennai Mathematical Institute)
Youssouf Oualhadj (Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne)
and more to be announced.
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Organisers
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Sougata Bose
Suman Sadhukhan
K. S. Thejaswini
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Program
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The detailed program will be here
<https://sites.google.com/view/fsttcs2024bworkshop/schedule> closer to the
workshop.
For any queries, contact the organisers: sougata.Bose(a)liverpool.ac.uk,
ssadhukh(a)campus.haifa.ac.il, thejaswini.k.s(a)ista.ac.at
Regards,
Suman Sadhukhan
Postdoctoral researcher
University of Haifa
Academic Research and Careers for Students (ARCS) is an annual symposium
hosted by ACM India, dedicated to providing a unique platform for
research scholars in Computer Science and related fields across India.
The 2025 edition of ARCS will be held on February 27-28 in Coimbatore.
If you are a PhD student in India working in any area of Computer
Science with an accepted or published paper in a conference or journal,
ACM ARCS 2025 [1] formally invites you to submit your publication
details for a potential poster presentation at ARCS, held alongside the
ACM India Annual Event.
We are specifically seeking accepted or published work between Nov 23'
to Oct 24' to facilitate meaningful networking among PhD students and
research mentors from both academia and industry. Selected students will
receive limited travel and accommodation support to attend ARCS and the
ACM India Annual Event.
Sub-themes include (but not limited to):
* Algorithms
* Complexity
* Logic & Automata
* Cryptography
* Quantum computation
* Information theory
* Architecture
* Database
* Networking
* PL & Formal Verification
* OS & Compilers
* Computer Vision & Graphics
* Artificial Intelligence
* Machine Learning
* NLP, Information retrieval
* Social network analysis
* Security
* Technology for society
Key dates:
- Submission deadline: November 15, 2024
- Notification of selection: December 15, 2024
Registration link for open call: Click Here [2]
For more info. write to:acmarcs2025@gmail.com
Or Visit: https://event.india.acm.org/arcs/home/
Links:
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[1] https://event.india.acm.org/arcs/home/
[2]
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1X3xmmlGpdaSrC_op3LnzMb8z9vgf908A9Vo-BSucKt…
Posting on behalf of Yong Kiam Tan (NTU):
We are jointly advertising for several open PhD and postdoc positions in
PL/FM at the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Nanyang
Technological University (NTU), Singapore.
PhD positions are fully funded, and will be for the January 2025 or
August 2025 intake at SCSE, NTU.
Details of the postdoctoral positions vary, but they are open to
candidates with PhD-level qualifications in a range of topics in PL/FM.
Please see below for further information on individual openings;
interested candidates should contact us directly.
Luke Ong, Professor
We invite motivated and well-qualified candidates to work on Bayesian
Statistical Probabilistic Programming, as part of a research programme
funded by the National Research Foundation, Singapore.
The appointees will work in the Probabilistic Programming Lab, where
research is carried out on a wide range of topics, especially in the
interface of programming languages, machine learning, and Bayesian
statistics, but also in allied areas in semantics of computation, formal
methods and verification, and in logic and algorithms.
Bayesian Statistical Probabilistic Programming lies in the interface of
programming languages, machine learning, and Bayesian statistics. These
positions will suit researchers with expertise in one (or more) of the
three areas, and are interested and committed to collaborating with
experts in the other areas.
Further details are available at
https://www3.ntu.edu.sg/home/luke.ong/Vacancies/phd.html
Yang Liu, Professor
I have fully-funded PhD positions available for PL/SE/Security on web3
security (smart contract and runtime monitoring), AV security and
robustness, and Large Language Model (LLM) applications: applying LLM
for FM (specification/property generation, proof automation), LLM for
security (vulnerability detection via static analysis or fuzzing,
vulnerability repair), LLM for SE (multi-agent software development),
LLM security (prompt injection, jailbreak, defence against LLM attacks).
website: https://personal.ntu.edu.sg/yangliu/
contact: yangliu(a)ntu.edu.sg
Conrad Watt, Assistant Professor
I have fully-funded PhD positions available for PL research, broadly
construed, related to the WebAssembly programming language and virtual
machine. A successful applicant will have the opportunity to work
closely with WebAssembly's industrial standards body and inform the
future direction of the language.
I am also looking to recruit postdocs with experience in mechanised
theorem proving and programming language semantics, to work on advanced
extensions and applications of the WasmCert-Isabelle mechanisation of
WebAssembly and related artefacts. A key theme of this work will be
driving industrial adoption of verified artefacts - for example, see
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3591224. Experience with Isabelle/HOL
would be highly desirable. Funding is available for up to 4 years of
full-time employment.
website: conrad-watt.github.io <http://conrad-watt.github.io>
contact: conrad.watt(a)ntu.edu.sg
Yong Kiam Tan, (incoming) Assistant Professor
I am interested in applications of deductive verification and
interactive theorem proving in automated reasoning, compilers (CakeML),
randomized algorithms, hybrid systems, and cryptography. I am recruiting
up to three PhD students and three postdocs for these topics under a new
Singapore NRF fellowship project.
Please visit https://tanyongkiam.github.io/advert.html for contact and
other details.
Conrad and Yong Kiam would also like to draw attention to A*STAR's
graduate scholarships
(https://www.a-star.edu.sg/Scholarships/for-graduate-studies/overview).
These competitive national awards offer enhanced support for exceptional
PhD applicants, who we would jointly supervise in a project related to
the intersection of WebAssembly and CakeML. Please contact us for more
details.
Dear all,
The Formal Methods group at CSE IIT Delhi is organizing a Winter School on Formal Verification and Program Synthesis, and registration is now open
Important Details:
When: 3rd to 6th December
Where: CSE, IIT Delhi
Who can apply: Final-year undergraduate students, post-graduate (Masters/PhD) students, or industry professionals
How to apply: Register now at https://forms.gle/T7gqKbVei8PQwf1x7
Support: Travel support of INR 3000 for students and accommodation at IITD hostels (most likely).
More Information: https://priyanka-golia.github.io/WinterSchool24/index.html
For any questions, please feel free to contact Kumar Madhukar (madhukar(a)iitd.ac.in <mailto:madhukar@iitd.ac.in>) or Priyanka Golia (pgolia(a)iitd.ac.in <mailto:pgolia@iitd.ac.in>).
Thank you!
Regards,
Priyanka
Dear colleague,
As you may know, co-located with FSTTCS 2024 (
https://www.fsttcs.org.in/2024/), IARCS is organizing a Workshop on
Research Highlights in Programming Languages (RHPL@FSTTCS). The focus of
the workshop will be on all areas of Programming Languages, including but
not limited to, Program Analysis and Verification, Applied Formal Methods,
and Compilers. Please visit the webpage for more details:
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/
The objective of RHPL is to foster interactions between the attendees of
the workshop, and more broadly between researchers working on Programming
Languages and the traditional FSTTCS community of researchers working on
Theoretical Computer Science and Formal Methods.
Click here to register: https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/rhpl2024/attend.html
We solicit proposals for
(1) Talks -- on recent work that has been published in good venues, or is
mature in terms of approach and evaluation, and
(2) Posters -- on early ideas that are promising but have not been
developed fully. Selections of these proposals will be made based on the
promise of research possibilities and their novelty.
You may submit a proposal using this Google form:
https://forms.gle/B3sj8xu4hrCKar2M9
The important dates are as below.
Submission deadline (extended): October 22, 2024 (AoE)
Notification: October 25, 2024
Early-bird registration deadline: November 15, 2024 (AoE)
RHPL@FSTTCS: December 16-18, 2024
We look forward to your participation in the workshop.
On behalf of the RHPL@FSTTCS workshop organizing committee:
Deepak D'Souza (IISc Bangalore)
Uday Khedker (IIT Bombay)
Kumar Madhukar (IIT Delhi) (Co-Chair)
Kartik Nagar (IIT Madras)
Ganesan Ramalingam (Microsoft)
Aseem Rastogi (Microsoft Research)
Abhik Roychoudhury (National University of Singapore)
Abhisekh Sankaran (Tata Consultancy Services Research)
Divyesh Unadkat (Synopsys) (Co-Chair)
Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Jan
Křetínský, a professor for Formal Methods for Software Reliability at the
Technical University of Munich. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October
15, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWN0OWYwcT…>
).
The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
email.
The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this
talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
All are welcome to join.
Best regards,
Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan
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Title: Learning and Guessing Winning Policies in LTL Synthesis via Semantics
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
We discuss a learning-based framework for guessing a winning strategy in a
parity game originating from a reactive synthesis problem for LTL. Its
applications range from cases where the game's huge size prohibits rigorous
approaches, over increasing scalability of rigorous synthesis, to
explainability of synthesized controllers. We discuss the advantages and
caveats of these new avenues in synthesis. On the technical level, we
describe (i) how to reflect the highly structured logical information in
game's states, the so-called semantic labelling, coming from the recent
LTL-to-automata translations, and (ii) to do so by learning from previously
solved games, bringing the solution process closer to human-like reasoning.
Bio: After PhD from Technical University of Munich in 2013 and from Masaryk
University Brno in 2014, Jan Křetínský was a research fellow at IST Austria
and since 2015 a professor at TU Munich, getting tenure there. While still
affiliated, he has recently moved to MU Brno. His main focus is basic
research in verification, control and explainability of complex systems.
Since 2013 he has been advocating and pioneering the use of AI and ML in
verification.
Dear all,
The next talk in the IARCS Verification Seminar Series will be given by Jan
Křetínský, a professor for Formal Methods for Software Reliability at the
Technical University of Munich. The talk is scheduled on Tuesday, October
15, at 1900 hrs IST (add to Google calendar
<https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=NWN0OWYwcT…>
).
The details of the talk can be found on our webpage (
https://fmindia.cmi.ac.in/vss/), and also appended to the body of this
email.
The Verification Seminar Series, an initiative by the Indian Association
for Research in Computing Science (IARCS), is a monthly, online
talk-series, broadly in the area of Formal Methods and Programming
Languages, with applications in Verification and Synthesis. The aim of this
talk-series is to provide a platform for Formal Methods researchers to
interact regularly. In addition, we hope that it will make it easier for
researchers to explore newer problems/areas and collaborate on them, and
for younger researchers to start working in these areas.
All are welcome to join.
Best regards,
Akash, Deepak, Madhukar, Srivathsan
=============================================================
Title: Learning and Guessing Winning Policies in LTL Synthesis via Semantics
Meeting Link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89164094870?pwd=eUFNRWp0bHYxRVpwVVNoVUdHU0djQT09
(Meeting ID: 891 6409 4870, Passcode: 082194)
Abstract:
We discuss a learning-based framework for guessing a winning strategy in a
parity game originating from a reactive synthesis problem for LTL. Its
applications range from cases where the game's huge size prohibits rigorous
approaches, over increasing scalability of rigorous synthesis, to
explainability of synthesized controllers. We discuss the advantages and
caveats of these new avenues in synthesis. On the technical level, we
describe (i) how to reflect the highly structured logical information in
game's states, the so-called semantic labelling, coming from the recent
LTL-to-automata translations, and (ii) to do so by learning from previously
solved games, bringing the solution process closer to human-like reasoning.
Bio: After PhD from Technical University of Munich in 2013 and from Masaryk
University Brno in 2014, Jan Křetínský was a research fellow at IST Austria
and since 2015 a professor at TU Munich, getting tenure there. While still
affiliated, he has recently moved to MU Brno. His main focus is basic
research in verification, control and explainability of complex systems.
Since 2013 he has been advocating and pioneering the use of AI and ML in
verification.
Call for Papers: FORMALISE 2025
13th International Conference on Formal Methods in Software Engineering
27 and 28 April, 2025
co-located with ICSE 2025 (April 27-May 3, 2025), Ottawa, Canada
https://conf.researchr.org/home/Formalise-2025
Overview
Historically, formal methods academic research and practical software
development have had limited mutual interactions — except possibly in
specialized domains such as safety-critical software. In recent times,
the outlook has considerably improved: on the one hand, formal methods
research has delivered more flexible techniques and tools that can
support various aspects of the software development process: from user
requirements elicitation, to design, implementation, verification and
validation, as well as the creation of documentation. On the other hand,
software engineering has developed a growing interest in rigorous
techniques applied at scale.
The FormaliSE conference series promotes work at the intersection of the
formal methods and software engineering communities, providing a venue
to exchange ideas, experiences, techniques, and results. We believe more
collaboration between these two communities can be mutually beneficial
by fostering the creation of formal methods that are practically useful
and by helping develop higher-quality software.
Originally a workshop event, since 2018 FormaliSE has been organized as
a conference co-located with ICSE. The 13th edition of FormaliSE will
also take place as a co-located conference of ICSE 2025.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
- requirements formalization and formal specification;
- approaches, methods and tools for verification and validation;
- formal approaches to safety and security related issues;
- analysis of performance and other non-functional properties based
on formal approaches;
- scalability of formal method applications
- integration of formal methods within the software development
lifecycle (e.g., change management, continuous integration, regression
testing, and deployment)
- model-based engineering approaches;
- correctness-by-construction approaches for software and systems
engineering;
- application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g.,
autonomous, cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems;
- formal methods for AI-based systems (FM4AI), and AI applied in
formal method approaches (AI4FM);
- formal methods in a certification context
- case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches
- experience reports on the application of formal methods to
real-world problems;
- guidelines to use formal methods in practice;
- usability of formal methods.
Important dates:
Abstracts due: 11 November 2024
Submissions: 18 November 2024
Notifications: 13 January 2025
Camera ready copies: 5 February 2025
FormaliSE conference: 27-28 April 2025
Paper submission guidelines
We accept papers in three categories:
- Full research papers describing original research work and results.
We encourage authors to include validation of their contributions by
means of a case study or experiments. We also welcome research papers
focusing on tools and tool development.
- Case study papers discussing a significant application that
suggests general lessons learned and motivates further research, or
empirically validates theoretical results (such as a technique's
scalability).
- Research ideas papers describing new ideas in preliminary form, in
a way that can stimulate interesting discussions at the conference, and
suggest future work.
All papers submitted to the FormaliSE 2025 conference must be written in
English, must be unpublished original work, and must not be under review
or submitted elsewhere at the time of submission. Submissions must
comply with the FormaliSE's lightweight double-anonymous review process
(see below).
Full research papers and case study papers can take up to 10 pages
including all text, figures, tables and appendices, but excluding
references. Research ideas papers can take up to 4 pages, plus up to 1
additional page solely for references.
To avoid that authors waste time fitting their papers into the stated
limit at the expense of presentation clarity, paper lengths slightly
exceeding the stated limit will still be considered, provided that the
reviewers find that the presentation is of high quality.
All submissions must be in PDF format and must conform to the IEEE
conference proceedings template, specified in the IEEE Conference
Proceedings Formatting Guidelines (i.e., title in 24pt font and full
text in 10pt type):
https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
In LaTeX, use \documentclass[10pt,conference]{IEEEtran} without
including the compsoc or compsocconf options.
To submit a paper to FormaliSE 2025 use thisHotCRP link:
https://formalise25.hotcrp.com/
Lightweight Double-Blind Review Process for Papers
As in recent editions, FormaliSE 2025 will use a lightweight
double-anonymous process. Authors must omit their names and institutions
from the title page, cite their own work in the third person, and omit
acknowledgments that may reveal their identity or affiliation. The
purpose is reducing chances of reviewer bias influenced by the authors’
identities. The double-anonymous process is, however, lightweight, which
means that it should not pose a heavy burden for authors, nor should
make a paper's presentation weaker or more difficult to review. Also,
advertising the paper as part of your usual research activities (for
example, on your personal web-page, in a pre-print archive, by email, in
talks or discussions with colleagues) is permitted without penalties.
Paper selection
Each paper will be reviewed by at least three program committee members
that will judge its overall quality in terms of its soundness,
significance, novelty, verifiability, and presentation clarity.
FormaliSE 2025 will adopt a lightweight response process: if all the
reviewers of a given paper agree that a clarification from the authors
regarding a specific question could move the paper from "borderline" to
"accept", the chairs will relay the reviewers' questions to the authors
by email, and then share their reply with the reviewers in HotCRP. The
goal of lightweight responses is reducing the chance of random
decisions on borderline papers. Hence, they will only be used for a
minority of submissions; most papers will not require such an author
response. Nevertheless, we would ask the corresponding authors of all
submissions to make sure that they are available to answer questions by
email upon request.
Artifact Evaluation
Reproducibility of experimental results is crucial to foster an
atmosphere of trustworthy, open, and reusable research. To improve and
reward reproducibility, FormaliSE 2025 continues its Artifact Evaluation
(AE) procedure. An artifact is any additional material (software, data
sets, machine-checkable proofs, etc.) that substantiates the claims made
in the paper and ideally makes them fully reproducible.
Submission of an artifact is optional but encouraged for all papers
where it can support the results presented in the paper. Artifact review
is single-anonymous (the paper corresponding to an artifact must still
follow the double-anonymous submissions requirements) and will be
conducted concurrently with the paper reviewing process. Artifacts will
be handled by a separate Artifact Evaluation Committee, and the Artifact
Evaluation process will be set up such that the anonymization of the
corresponding papers will not be compromised. Accepted papers with a
successfully evaluated artefact will be awarded the [EAPLS badges
(https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/) that apply (among
"Functional", "Reusable", and "Available"). Awarded badges are to be
added to the camera-ready version of the paper.
Artifacts will be assessed with respect to their consistency with the
results presented in the paper, their completeness, their documentation,
and their ease of use. The Artifact Evaluation will include an initial
check for technical issues; authors of artifacts may be contacted by
email within the first two weeks after artifact submission to help
resolve any technical problems that prevent the evaluation of an
artifact if necessary.
The results of an artifact evaluation will not be available to the
reviewers of the corresponding paper; hence, they will not affect the
paper's acceptance decision. However, reviewers will know whether a
paper has submitted *any* artifacts; this piece of information may be
taken into account to decide whether the paper should be accepted. Thus,
if there are justifiable reasons why a paper's artifacts cannot be
submitted, they should be pointed out in the paper so that the reviewers
can appreciate them and adjust their expectations accordingly.
Detailed guidelines for preparation and submission of artifacts will be
described in a dedicated page inFormaliSE 2025's website.
Publication
All accepted papers are published as part of the ICSE 2025 Proceedings
in the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries.
At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for
the conference and present the paper at the conference — physically or,
if the circumstances do not allow so, virtually. Failure to register an
author will result in a paper being removed from the proceedings.
General Chairs
Stefania Gnesi, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione,
Italy
Nico Plat, Thanos, The Netherlands
Program Chairs
Anastasia Mavridou, KBR / NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Gwen Salaün, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Artifact Evaluation Chairs
Ákos Hajdu, Meta, UK
Lina Marsso, University of Toronto, Canada
Social Media Chair
Quentin Nivon, University Grenoble Alpes, France
Program committee
Bernhard Aichernig, TU Graz, Austria
Toshiaki Aoki, Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan
Kyungmin Bae, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
Domenico Bianculli, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Simon Bliudze, INRIA Lille - Nord Europe, France
Giovanna Broccia, ISTI - CNR, Italy
Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
Pablo Castro, National University of Rio Cuarto, Argentina
Zhenbang Chen, NUDT, China
Nancy Day, University of Waterloo, Canada
Francisco Durán, University of Málaga, Spain
Marie Farrell, University of Manchester, UK
Carlo A. Furia, USI Lugano, Switzerland
Fatemeh Ghassemi, University of Tehran, Iran
Divya Gopinath, KBR/ NASA Ames Research Center, USA
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, Concordia University, Canada
Paula Herber, University of Münster, Germany
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Xiaoqing Jin, Apple Inc., USA
Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences,
Norway
Oleksandr Kolchyn, Glushkov Institute of Cybernetics, Ukraine
Antónia Lopes, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Larissa Meinicke, University of Queensland, Australia
Camilo Rocha, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia
Cristina Seceleanu, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Arpit Sharma, EECS Department, IISER Bhopal, India
Allison Sullivan, University of Texas, Arlington, USA
Heike Wehrheim, University of Oldenburg, Germany