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| Notification: | Monday, 16 September 2019 |
| Camera-ready: | Tuesday, 1 October 2019 |
| Main conference: | 4-6 December 2019 |
Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.
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Applying formal methods may involve the usage of different formalisms and different analysis techniques to validate a system, either because individual components are most amenable to one formalism or technique, because one is interested in different properties of the system, or simply to cope with the sheer complexity of the system. The iFM conference series seeks to further research into hybrid approaches to formal modeling and analysis: the combination of (formal and semi-formal) methods for system development, regarding both modeling and analysis. The conference covers all aspects from language design through verification and analysis techniques to tools and their integration into software engineering practice.
Areas of interest include but are not limited to:
iFM 2019 solicits high quality papers reporting research results and/or experience reports related to the overall theme of formal method integration.
We accept papers in the following categories:
(1) Regular papers (limit 18 pages) on
(2) Short papers (limit 8 pages) on
(3) Journal First papers (limit 4 pages)
Page limits include bibliography and any appendices.
Regular and short papers submitted in categories (1) and (2) must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers in these two categories will undergo a thorough review process. Submissions will be judged on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.
The aim of journal-first papers in category (3) is to further enrich the program of iFM, as well as to provide an overall more flexible path to publication and dissemination of original research in formal methods. The published journal paper must adhere to the following four criteria:
The 4-page submission to iFM for category (3) should provide a concise summary of the published journal paper, which makes it clear that its topics fits iFM’s scope and that a presentation of its results would be interesting to the audience of iFM.
Journal-first submissions must be marked as such in the submission’s title, and must explicitly include full bibliographic details (including a DOI) of the journal publication they are based on. Submissions will be judged on the basis of the above criteria, but also considering how well they would complement the conference’s technical program.
Submissions for all categories should be made using the iFM 2019 Easychair site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ifm2019
Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files.
The conference proceedings will be published in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. A special issue of the Formal Aspects of Computing - FAOC journal is planned for extended versions of selected papers from iFM 2019.
All accepted papers must be presented at the conference. Their authors must be prepared to sign a copyright transfer statement. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference by the early registration date, and present the paper.
Springer requires that authors should consult
Springer’s authors’guidelines
and use their proceedings templates, either for
LaTeX
or for
Word,
for the preparation of their papers. Springer encourages authors to include
their ORCIDs in their papers.
After a paper is accepted, the corresponding author of each paper, acting
on behalf of all of the authors of that paper, must complete and sign a
Consent-to-Publish form. The corresponding author signing the copyright
form should match the corresponding author marked on the paper. Once
the files have been sent to Springer, changes relating to the authorship
of the papers cannot be made.