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Call for Papers
(Please note deadline extension for VMCAI 2025 below).
https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025
VMCAI 2025 is the 26th International Conference on Verification, Model
Checking, and Abstract Interpretation. The conference will be held
during January 20-21, 2025. 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.
Scope <https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025#scope>
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.
Important Dates AoE (UTC-12)
<https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025#important-dates-aoe-utc-12>
* *October 1, 2024* AOE : Paper submission deadline (extended).
* November 8, 2024: Notification
* November 22, 2024: Camera-ready version due
Submissions <https://conf.researchr.org/home/VMCAI-2025#submissions>
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
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>.
Submission is via Easy Chair
<https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=vmcai2025>. Note: submissions
will open on August 26th.
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.
Submissions will undergo a single-blind review process. Submissions
should /not/ be anonymized for the purposes of review. 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.)