International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design (FMCAD) Austin, Texas, October 30 - November 2, 2018 http://www.fmcad.org/FMCAD18 # IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: May 11, 2018 Paper Submission: May 18, 2018 Author Notification: July 18, 2018 Camera-Ready Version: Aug 19, 2018 All deadlines are 11:59 pm AoE (Anywhere on Earth) FMCAD Tutorial Day: Oct 30, 2018 Regular Program: Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2018 Part of the FMCAD 2018 program: FMCAD Student Forum # CONFERENCE SCOPE AND PUBLICATION FMCAD 2018 is the eighteenth in a series of conferences on the theory and applications of formal methods in hardware and system verification. FMCAD provides a leading forum to researchers in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. FMCAD employs a rigorous peer-review process. Accepted papers are distributed through both ACM and IEEE digital libraries. In addition, published articles are made available freely on the conference page; the authors retain the copyright. There are no publication fees. At least one of the authors is required to register for the conference and present the accepted paper. A small number of outstanding FMCAD submissions will be considered for inclusion in a Special Issue of the journal on Formal Methods in System Design (FMSD). # TOPICS OF INTEREST FMCAD welcomes submission of papers reporting original research on advances in all aspects of formal methods and their applications to computer- aided design. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Model checking, theorem proving, equivalence checking, abstraction and reduction, compositional methods, decision procedures at the bit- and word-level, probabilistic methods, combinations of deductive methods and decision procedures. * Synthesis and compilation for computer system descriptions, modeling, specification, and implementation languages, formal semantics of languages and their subsets, model-based design, design derivation and transformation, correct-by-construction methods. * Application of formal and semi-formal methods to functional and non-functional specification and validation of hardware and software, including timing and power modeling, verification of computing systems on all levels of abstraction, system-level design and verification for embedded systems, cyber-physical systems, automotive systems and other safety-critical systems, hardware-software co-design and verification, and transaction-level verification. * Experience with the application of formal and semi-formal methods to industrial-scale designs; tools that represent formal verification enablement, new features, or a substantial improvement in the automation of formal methods. * Application of formal methods to verifying safety, connectivity and security properties of networks, distributed systems, smart contracts, block chains, and IoT devices. # SUBMISSIONS Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmcad18 Two categories of papers are invited: Regular papers, and Tool & Case Study papers. Regular papers are expected to offer novel foundational ideas, theoretical results, or algorithmic improvements to existing methods, along with experimental impact validation where applicable. Tool & Case Study papers are expected to report on the design, implementation or use of verification (or related) technology in a practically relevant context (which need not be industrial), and its impact on design processes. Both Regular and Tool & Case study papers must use the IEEE Transactions format on letter-size paper with a 10-point font size. Regular papers can be up to 8 pages in length and tool papers up to 4 pages, although there is no requirement to fill all pages in either category. Authors will be required to select the appropriate paper category at abstract submission time. Submissions may contain an optional appendix, which will not appear in the final version of the paper. The reviewers should be able to assess the quality and the relevance of the results in the paper without reading the appendix. Submissions in both categories must contain original research that has not been previously published, nor is concurrently submitted for publication. Any partial overlap with published or concurrently submitted papers must be clearly indicated. If experimental results are reported, authors are strongly encouraged to provide the reviewers access to their data at submission time, so that results can be independently verified. # FMCAD 2017 COMMITTEES ## PROGRAM CHAIRS: Nikolaj Bjorner, Microsoft Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo ## PC Jade Alglave University College London June Andronick CSIRO|Data61 and UNSW Armin Biere Johannes Kepler University Linz Per Bjesse Synopsys Inc. Roderick Bloem Graz University of Technology Gianpiero Cabodi Politechnico Torino Supratik Chakraborty IIT Bombay Sylvain Conchon Universite Paris-Sud Bruno Dutertre SRI international Alberto Griggio University of Trento Liana Hadarean Synopsys Fei He Tsinghua University Joe Hendrix University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Warren Hunt The University of Texas at Austin Alexander Ivrii IBM Dejan Jovanovic SRI International Temesghen Kahsai NASA Ames / CMU George Karpenkov VERIMAG Igor Konnov Vienna University of Technology Ken McMillan Microsoft Alexander Nadel Intel Giles Reger The University of Manchester Leonid Ryzhyk VMware Research Martina Seidl Johannes Kepler University Linz Natasha Sharygina Universite della Svizzera italiana (USI Lugano, Switzerland) Sharon Shoham Tel Aviv University Anna Slobodova Centaur Mathias Soeken Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne Christoph Sticksel The MathWorks Niklas Sörensson Chalmer University of Technology Murali Talupur FormalSim Yakir Vizel Princeton University Georg Weissenbacher Vienna University of Technology Jaco van de Pol University of Twente ## STUDENT FORUM CHAIR: Dejan Ivanovic, SRI International ## WEBMASTER: Tom van Dijik, Johannes Kepler University ## PUBLICATION CHAIR: Jade Alglave, University College London and Microsoft ## PUBLICITY CHAIR: Yakir Vizel, Technion ## FMCAD STEERING COMMITTEE Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria Alan Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada Warren Hunt, University of Texas at Austin, USA Vigyan Singhal, Oski Tech