VSTTE 2025
17th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and
Experiments
October 06-07, 2025, Menlo Park, California, USA
Co-located with Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2025 (_FMCAD
2025 <https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/>_)
Key Information
Conference Website: _https://systemf.epfl.ch/etc/vstte2025/
<https://systemf.epfl.ch/etc/vstte2025/>_
Paper submission Deadline: July 18th AoE
This year, VSTTE accepts both (short and long) regular papers to be
included in post-conference proceedings and work-in-progress
(presentation only) papers.
Overview
The goal of the VSTTE conference series is to advance the state of the
art in the science and technology of software verification, through the
interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental
validation.
The Verified Software Initiative (VSI), spearheaded by Tony Hoare and
Jayadev Misra, is an ambitious research program for making large-scale
verified software a practical reality. The International Conference on
Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE) is the
main forum for advancing the initiative. VSTTE brings together experts
spanning the spectrum of software verification in order to foster
international collaboration on the critical research challenges. The
theoretical work includes semantic foundations and
logics for specification and verification, and verification algorithms
and methodologies. The tools cover specification and annotation
languages, program analyzers, model checkers, interactive verifiers and
proof checkers, automated theorem provers and SAT/SMT solvers, and
integrated verification environments. The experimental work drives the
research agenda for theory and tools by taking on significant
specification/verification exercises covering hardware, operating
systems, compilers, computer security, parallel computing, and
cyber-physical systems.
Call for papers and work-in-progress presentations
VSTTE 2025 welcomes submissions describing significant advances in the
production of verified software, i.e. software that has been proved to
meet its functional specifications. Submissions of theoretical,
practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged,
including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We
are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale
verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification,
tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also
welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating
verification techniques and technologies.
In addition to regular papers, we welcome submissions on in-progress
verified software projects to a “work-in-progress (presentation-only)”
track. Work-in-progress contributions will not appear in the
post-proceedings of the conference. Submissions describing work of
interest to the software verification community, but that could not be
accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, may be invited
to the “work-in-progress (presentation-only)” track, on a case-by-case
basis.
Topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to,
requirements modeling, specification languages,
specification/verification/certification case studies, formal calculi,
software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement
methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static
analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving,
satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and
integrated verification environments.
Submissions
VSTTE 2025 accepts both long (limited to 16 pages, excluding references)
and short (limited to 10 pages, excluding references) paper submissions.
Short submissions also cover “verification pearls” describing an elegant
proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system
descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere.
Papers may be submitted via EasyChair at the _VSTTE 2025 conference
submission page <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte25>_. The
use of LaTeX and the _Springer LNCS class files
<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines>_ is
strongly encouraged. Submissions that are not in the proper format or
are too long will not be considered.
Accepted regular-track papers will be included in the post-conference
proceedings of VSTTE 2025, which will be published as a LNCS volume by
Springer-Verlag. Authors of those papers will have to transfer copyright
of their contribution to Springer-Verlag.
Important Dates
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Abstract submission: July 14th AoE
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Paper submission: July 18th AoE
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Notification of acceptance: Aug 31th (AoE)
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Final pre-conference paper submission: September 26th (AoE)
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Conference: October 6th-7th
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Camera-ready for papers included in post-conference proceedings: TBA
Invited speakers
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_Caroline Trippel
<https://cs.stanford.edu/people/trippel/>_ (Stanford University)
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_Grant Passmore <https://www.imandra.ai/about>_ (Imandra)
Invited tutorial speakers
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_Pierre-Yves Strub <https://www.strub.nu/>_ (PQShield)
Chairs
Steering Committee
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_Supratik Chakraborty <https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~supratik/>_ (IIT
Bombay, India)
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_Natarajan Shankar <https://www.csl.sri.com/~shankar/>_ (SRI
International)
Program Chairs
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_Clément Pit-Claudel <https://pit-claudel.fr/clement/>_ (EPFL)
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_Katherine Kosaian
<https://sites.google.com/view/katherinekosaian>_ (University of Iowa)