*************************************************************************** DIFTS'15 DESIGN and IMPLEMENTATION of FORMAL TOOLS and SYSTEMS CALL FOR PAPERS *************************************************************************** Third International Workshop on Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems (co-located with FMCAD 2015, MEMOCODE 2015, and SAT 2015) http://www.ece.vt.edu/chaowang/difts2015/ Austin, TX, USA September 26-27, 2015 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract submission: July 15, 2015 (extended) Paper submission: July 15, 2015 Author notification: August 10, 2015 DIFTS (Design and Implementation of Formal Tools and Systems) workshop emphasizes insightful experiences in formal tools and systems design. The workshop provides an opportunity for discussing engineering aspects and various design decisions required to put formal tools and systems into practical use. In the past, we have invited speakers who have shared their deep insights and discussed the practices followed in the Industry towards adopting formal methods. It provides a forum for sharing challenges and solutions that are original with ground breaking results. The DIFTS workshop is co-located with FMCAD 2015 and SAT 2015. The regular talks of DIFTS workshop will be on September 26, 2015. The full-day tutorial (joint with FMCAD 2015, SAT 2015, and MEMOCODE 2015) will be on September 27, 2015. TOPICS OF INTEREST DIFTS takes a broad view of the formal tools/systems area, and solicits contributions from domains including, but not restricted to, decision procedures, verification, testing, validation, diagnosis, debugging, and synthesis. This workshop encourages and appreciates system development activities, and facilitates transparency in the experimentation. It will also serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in practicing formal methods. INVITED SPEAKERS Flemming Andersen, Intel, USA Shobha Vasudevan, UIUC, USA SUBMISSION The workshop specifically solicits contributions with substantial engineering details that often do not get published but have significant practical impact. Papers in the following two categories are solicited: (a) system category (10 pages, double column, 11pt), and (b) tool category (8 pages, double column, 11pt). In the system category, we invite papers that have original ideas accompanied with novel integration techniques, adequate design/implementation details, important design choices made and explored, and good experimental results. In the tool category, we invite papers that focus primarily on the engineering aspects of some known/popular algorithm, with significant emphasis on the design/implementation details, and various design choices made to advance current state-of-the-art approaches. The page limit for submissions in the system category is 10 pages in double column format and for submissions in the tool category is 8 pages in double column format. Submission of papers should be made electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. EVALUATION To keep maintain uniformity and fairness in the reviewing process, the program committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission based on the following guidelines: the paper should provide enough details for others to reproduce the results; and should solve a clearly-stated problem that is significant and has wide interest; and the paper should provide enough motivation for the design choices made. Overall, the paper should also clearly identify what the main contributions of the work are. PUBLICATION All accepted contributions will be included in informal proceedings. High quality submissions will be considered for a special issue of journals such as FMSD (Formal Methods in System Design) or IEEE TC (Transactions on Computers). ORGANIZATION PROGRAM CHAIRS Malay Ganai, Atrenta, USA Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Erika Abraham, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Malay Ganai, Atrenta, USA Alberto Griggio, FBK-IRST, Italy Daniel Grosse, University of Bremen, Germany William Hung , Synopsys, Inc., USA Priyank Kalla, University of Utah, USA Joao Marques-Silva, University College Dublin, Ireland Sandip Ray , Intel Corporation, USA Alper Sen, Bogazici University, Turkey Andreas Veneris, University of Toronto, Canada Chao Wang, Virginia Tech, USA