3rd CALL FOR PAPERS

NSV 2017
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10th  International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification
July 22-23, 2017

A workshop of CAV 2017 - Heidelberg, Germany 

This year NSV17 will be held alongside with the 
International Workshop on Formal Methods for Rigorous 
Systems Engineering of Cyber-Physical Systems 
(a one-time, invite-only event). 

Web Page: http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/conferences/NSV17 


Description of the Workshop
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Numerical computations are ubiquitous in digital systems: monitoring, supervision,
prediction, simulation and signal processing rely heavily on numerical
calculus to achieve desired goals.  Design and verification of
numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it
apart from rest of software verification. To achieve the verification
and validation of global system properties, numerical techniques need to
precisely represent local behaviours of each component. The
implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another
layer of approximation because of the use of finite representations of
infinite precision numbers that usually lack basic arithmetic
properties, such as commutativity and associativity. Finally, the
development and analysis of cyber-physical systems (CPS), which involve 
interacting continuous and discrete components pose a further
challenge. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical
techniques for the reasoning about programmability and reliability.
The NSV workshop is dedicated to the development of such techniques.


Topics
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The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the
following topics:

- Quantitative and qualitative analysis of hybrid systems
- Models and abstraction techniques
- Optimal control of dynamical systems
- Parameter identification for hybrid systems
- Numerical optimisation methods
- Hybrid and embedded systems verification
- Applications of hybrid systems to systems biology
- Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models
- Specifications of correctness for numerical programs
- Formal specification and verification of numerical programs
- Quality of finite precision implementations
- Numerical properties of control software
- Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications
- Validation for scientific computing programs


Important Dates
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Submissions deadline:    *May 1st, 2017*
Notification:            May 20, 2017
Final version:           May 30, 2017
Workshop:                July 22-23, 2017


Invited Speakers
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Kyoko Makino (Michigan State University)
Nathalie Revol (Inria, Lyon)

Submission information
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We solicit regular and short papers. Paper submission must be
performed via the EasyChair system:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nsv2017

Regular papers must describe original work, be written and presented
in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are under submission. Submitted papers will be judged
on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and
clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and
why it is significant.

Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in LNCS style,
plus possibly bibliography and appendices. However, program committee members are not required to read the appendices, thus papers must be intelligible without them. 

Short papers are also welcome: they should present tools, benchmarks,
case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short
papers should not exceed 6 pages, excluding extra material as above. 

All accepted papers will be published as Lecture Notes in Computer
Science (LNCS) with Springer Verlag. 

http://www.springer.com/lncs

Chairs
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Sylvie Boldo (Inria, France)
Alessandro Abate (U Oxford, UK) 

Program Committee
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Stanley Bak (AFRL, USA)
Sergiy Bogomolov (ANU, Australia)
Olivier	Bouissou (The Mathworks, France)
Martin Brain (U Oxford, UK)
Alexandre Chapoutot (ENSTA ParisTech, France)
Pieter Collins (U Maastricht, NL)
Lucas Cordeiro (U Amazonas, BR)
Eva Darulova (MPI, DE) 
Georgios Fainekos (Arizon State University, USA)
François Févotte (EDF, France)
Susmit Jha (United Technologies Research Center, USA)
Jim Kapinski (Toyota, USA)
Matthieu Martel (Université de Perpignan, France)
Guillaume Melquiond (Inria, France)
Ian Mitchell (UBC, Canada)
Sylvie Putot (École Polytechnique, France)
Sriram Sankaranarayanan (UC Boulder) 
Walid Taha (Halmstadt University, Sweden)
Alexander Wittig (ESA ESTEC, NL)

Steering Committee
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Sergiy Bogomolov (ANU, Australia)
Radu Grosu (TU Vienna, Austria)
Matthieu Martel (Université de Perpignan, France)
Pavithra Prabhakar (Kansas State University, USA)
Sriram Sankaranarayanan (UC Boulder, USA)


Publicity Chair
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Yassamine Seladji (U Tlemcen, AL)


Webmaster
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Viraj Brian Wijesuriya (U Oxford, UK)