[DL] SPIN: Final Call for Papers

[Rozier, Kristin-Yvonne [AER E]]

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                            SPIN
  31st International Symposium on Model Checking Software

https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/

                      7 - 8 May 2025

       co-located with ETAPS 2025, Hamilton, Canada
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Theme of the Symposium:
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The SPIN symposium aims at bringing together researchers and 
practitioners interested in automated tool-based techniques for the 
analysis of software as well as models of software, for the purpose of 
verification and validation. The symposium specifically focuses on 
concurrent software but does not exclude the analysis of sequential 
software. Submissions are solicited on theoretical results, novel 
algorithms, tool development, and empirical evaluation.

The SPIN symposium originated as a workshop focusing on explicit state 
model checking, specifically as related to the SPIN model checker. 
However, over the years it has evolved to a broadly-scoped symposium for 
software analysis using any automated techniques, including model 
checking, automated theorem proving, and symbolic execution. An overview 
of the previous SPIN symposia (and early workshops) can be found at: 
https://spinroot.com/spin/Workshops/.


Topics of Interest:
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Formal verification techniques for automated analysis of (concurrent) 
software/hardware, including:
  -- Model checking
  -- Deductive verification
  -- Automated theorem proving, including SAT and SMT
  -- Abstraction and symbolic execution techniques
  -- Static analysis and abstract interpretation
  -- Modular and compositional verification techniques
  -- Verification of timed and probabilistic systems
  -- Automated testing using advanced analysis techniques
  -- Program synthesis
  -- Derivation of specifications, test cases etc. via formal analysis
  -- Formal specification languages, temporal logic, design-by-contract
  -- Formal analysis of learned systems
  -- Any combination of the above
* Application and/or engineering of verification tools, including:
  -- Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results
  -- Implementation of novel verification tools
  -- Benchmarks and comparative studies for verification tools
  -- Verification tools using modern hardware, e.g.: multi-core CPU, 
GPU, TPU, cloud, and quantum


Important Dates:
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Paper Submission:                     13 Feb 2025
Artifact Submission (Tool Papers):    27 Feb 2025
Paper/Artifact Notifications:         24 Mar 2025
Artifact Submission (Other Papers):   7 Apr 2025
Non-tool Paper Artifact Notification: 1 May 2025
Symposium:                            7-8 May 2025


Submission Details:
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We are soliciting three categories of papers:

* Full Research Papers describing fully developed work and complete 
results (16 pages, excluding bibliography and appendices);

* Full Tool Papers, accompanied by a *Mandatory Artifact*, describing 
work that is closely-related to the development or the evaluation of a 
verification tool or similar (16 pages, excluding bibliography and 
appendices);

* Short Papers presenting tools, technology, experiences with lessons 
learned, new ideas, work in progress with preliminary results, and novel 
contributions to formal methods (6 pages, excluding bibliography and 
appendices). Note: Artifact evaluation is optional for short papers but 
highly recommended for those with a focus on tools. If you want to have 
the accompanying artifact of your short paper evaluated, please submit 
it to the mandatory AE on February 27.

Papers submission website: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=spin2025 -- in the track 
Research Papers, select the respective paper category.

All papers that conform to submission guidelines will be peer-reviewed 
by members of the program committee. Submissions will be evaluated on 
the basis of originality, the importance of contribution, soundness, 
evaluation, quality of presentation, and appropriate comparison to 
related work.

The proceedings of SPIN 2025 will be published as part of 
post-conference proceedings in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer 
Science series. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format; see 
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines. 
Please take into account Springer’s Book authors code of conduct when 
preparing submissions: 
https://www.springernature.com/gp/authors/book-authors-code-of-conduct.


Artifact Evaluation:
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SPIN 2025 will feature artifact evaluation, performed by an Artifact 
Evaluation Committee (AEC). The AEC evaluates artifacts based on 
documentation, availability, reproducibility of results, and tool 
reusability (if applicable). Artifact submission is mandatory for Full 
Tool Papers. While artifact submission is optional for papers in other 
categories, we highly encourage authors of papers involving tool 
development and empirical evaluation to submit an artifact for 
evaluation. Papers with an accompanying artifact may be awarded one or 
more badges from the EAPLS artifact badging scheme 
(https://eapls.org/pages/artifact_badges/). More details can be found 
at: https://spin-web.github.io/SPIN2025/artifacts


Keynote Speakers:
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Alexandre Duret-Lutz (EPITA Research Laboratory (LRE)): "Growing an 
omega-automata Library"
Orna Grumberg (Technion, Israel): "Developments in Symbolic Model Checking"


PC Chairs:
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Gidon Ernst (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Kristin Yvonne Rozier (Iowa State University)


Artifact Evaluation Chairs:
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Julie Cailler (University of Lorraine & Inria, France)
Nian-Ze Lee (LMU Munich / National Taiwan University)


Programme Committee:
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Marek Chalupa, (Institute of Science and Technology, Austria)
Marie-Christine Jakobs, (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
Nancy Day (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Rohit Dureja (IBM Corporation, USA)
Marie Farrell (University of Manchester, UK)
Susanne Graf (Verimag, France)
Ahmed Irfan (SRI, USA)
Violet Ka I Pun (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Dominik Klumpp (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Ondřej Lengál (Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic)
Cong Liu (Collins Aerospace, USA)
Jianwen Li (East China Normal University, China)
Lucas Martinelli Tabajara (Amazon, USA)
Radu Mateescu (Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, France)
Thomas Neele (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Marjan Sirjani (Malardalen University, Sweden)
Nestan Tsiskaridze (Standford University, USA)
Masaki Waga (Kyoto University, Japan)
Anton Wijs (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Matthias Volk (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Shufang Zhu (University of Liverpool, UK)


Artifact Evaluation Committee:
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Ryan Dancy (University of Oxford, UK)
Chiao Hsieh (Kyoto University, Japan)
Matthias Kettl (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
Bajczi Levente (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Thomas Lemberger (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany)
Chen-Kai Lin (Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Landon J. Taylor (Utah State University, USA)
Mohit K. Tekriwal (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 
Canada)
Aline Uwimbabazi (Schlumberger Foundation & INRIA, France)
Aosen Xiong (University of Waterloo, Canada)
Zsófia Ádám (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)


Steering Committee:
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Anton Wijs (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands, chair)
Stefan Leue (University of Konstanz, Germany)
Susanne Graf (Verimag, France)
Gerard Holzmann (Nimble Research, USA)
Jaco van de Pol (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Neha Rungta (AWS, USA)
Willem Visser (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Georgiana Caltais (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Christian Schilling (Aalborg University, Denmark)


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