[ Apologize for Multiple Copies ] **************************************************************** DEADLINE EXTENSION Abstract deadline May 21, 2019 Submission deadline May 21, 2019 **************************************************************** Call for Papers RV 2019 19th International Conference on Runtime Verification Porto, Portugal October 8-11, 2019 NEW IN 2019: Benchmark Papers Track https://www.react.uni-saarland.de/rv2019/ # Scope Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as online system repair. Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to: * specification languages for monitoring * monitor construction techniques * program instrumentation * logging, recording, and replay * combination of static and dynamic analysis * specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces * monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems * runtime checking of privacy and security policies * metrics and statistical information gathering * program/system execution visualization * fault localization, containment, recovery and repair * dynamic type checking Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical systems, safety/mission critical systems, enterprise and systems software, cloud systems, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy. An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org. # Submissions All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv19 The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures, but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2019 to present. # Papers There are four categories of papers which can be submitted: regular, short, tool demo, and benchmark papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the Program Committee. * Regular Papers (up to 15 pages, not including references) should present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers, system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and case studies on runtime verification. * Short Papers (up to 6 pages, not including references) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. * Tool Demonstration Papers (up to 8 pages, not including references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. The paper must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected experimental results and it should provide a link to a website containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available with their submission. * Benchmark Papers (up to 10 pages, not including references, NEW IN 2019) should describe a benchmark, suite of benchmarks, or benchmark generator useful for evaluating RV tools. Papers will should include information as to what the benchmark consists of and its purpose (what is the domain), how to obtain and use the benchmark, an argument for the usefulness of the benchmark to the broader RV community, and may include any existing results produced using the benchmark. We are interested in both benchmarks pertaining to real-world scenarios and those containing synthetic data designed to achieve interesting properties. Broader definitions of benchmark e.g. for generating specifications from data or diagnosing faults are within scope. Finally, we encourage but do not require benchmarks that are tool agnostic (especially those that have been used to evaluate multiple tools), labelled benchmarks with rigorous arguments for correctness of labels, and benchmarks that are demonstrably challenging with respect to the state-of-the-art tools. Benchmark papers must be accompanied by an easily accessible and usable benchmark submission. Papers will be evaluated by a separate benchmark evaluation panel who will asses the benchmarks relevance, clarity, and utility as communicated by the submitted paper. The Program Committee of RV 2019 will give a best paper award, and a selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a special journal issue. # Tutorial Track Tutorials are two-to-three-hour presentations on a selected topic. Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of up to 20 pages in the LNCS conference proceedings. A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a proposed timeline, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable) and the differences to this incarnation, and a biography of the presenter. The proposal must not exceed 2 pages. Tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the Program Committee. Important Dates # Website https://www.react.uni-saarland.de/rv2019/ # Important Dates Abstract deadline: May 21, 2019 Paper and tutorial deadline: May 21, 2019 Paper and tutorial notification: July 1, 2019 Camera-ready deadline: July 14, 2019 Conference: October 8 - 11, 2019 # Program Committee Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers University of Technology Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology Andreas Bauer, KUKA Eric Bodden, Paderborn University and Fraunhofer IEM Borzoo Bonakdarpour, Iowa State University Christian Colombo, University of Malta Ylies Falcone, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Inria Lu Feng, University of Virginia Bernd Finkbeiner, Saarland University Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta Radu Grosu, TU Vienna Sylvain Hallé, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Catalin Hritcu, INRIA Felix Klaedtke, NEC Labs Europe Axel Legay, UCLouvain David Lo, Singapore Management University Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca Viviana Mascardi, DIBRIS, University of Genova Dejan Nickovic, Austrian Institute of Technology AIT Ayoub Nouri, Verimag Gordon Pace, University of Malta Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences Jorge A. Pérez, University of Groningen Giles Reger, The University of Manchester Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kristin Yvonne Rozier, Iowa State University Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute Gerardo Schneider, University of Gothenburg Nastaran Shafiei, NASA Ames Research Center/SGT Julien Signoles, CEA LIST Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania Bernhard Steffen, Univ Dortmund Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University Volker Stolz, Høgskulen på Vestlandet Neil Walkinshaw, The University of Sheffield Chao Wang, University of Southern California Xiangyu Zhang, Purdue University