Overview

Formal verification is of crucial significance in the development of hardware and software systems. In the last few years, tremendous progress was made in both the speed and capacity of constraint technology. Most notably, SAT solvers have become orders of magnitude faster and capable of handling problems that are orders of magnitude bigger, thus enabling the formal verification of more complex computer systems. As a result, the formal verification of hardware and software has become a promising area for research and industrial applications.

The main goals of the Constraints in Formal Verification workshop are to bring together researchers from the CSP/SAT and the formal verification communities, to describe new applications of constraint technology to formal verification, to disseminate new challenging problem instances, and to propose new dedicated algorithms for hard formal verification problems.

This workshop will be of interest to researchers from academia and industry, working in constraints or in formal verification and interested in the application of constraints in formal verification.

Scope

The scope of the workshop includes topics related with the application of constraint technology in formal verification, namely:

• application of constraint solvers to hardware verification;
• application of constraint solvers to software verification;
• dedicated solvers for formal verification problems;
• challenging formal verification problems.

Delivery

The workshop will be scheduled for one full day. We expect to structure the workshop to allow ample time for discussion and demonstration of new tools and new problem instances.

Submissions

Submissions can include one of the following:

• A workshop paper of up to 15 pages in LNCS format.
• A short paper of up to 4 pages, in LNCS format, describing an industrial experience.

Workshop papers should be submitted electronically in pdf format. Papers should be formatted using the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style.

Paper submissions are handled by EasyChair. Please follow this link for submitting your paper.

The proceedings of CFV workshop are expected to be published as a volume of ENTCS.

Important Dates

The proposed schedule of important dates for the workshop is as follows:

Invited Speakers

To be announced

Workshop Chairs

Joao Marques-Silva
University of Southampton, UK
Email: jpms@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Miroslav Velev
Consultant, U.S.A.
Email: mvelev@ieee.org

Program Committee

Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria

Louise Dennis, University of Nottingham, U.K.

Wolfgang Kunz, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany

Ines Lynce, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal

Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.

John Moondanos, Intel, U.S.A.

Chao Wang, NEC Research Labs, U.S.A.

Li-C. Wang, University of Santa Barbara, U.S.A.