The 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods Doctoral Symposium


2 November 2020 - Singapore

Welcome to the website of the 22nd International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods (ICFEM 2020) Doctoral Symposium

The ICFEM 2020 Doctoral Symposium is an international forum for Ph.D. students working in all areas related to formal methods. This forum is a good opportunity for PhD students to bring together PhD students and established and known researchers of the formal methods community; provide PhD students with fruitful feedback and advice on their research approach; enable PhD students to interact with other PhD students and to stimulate exchange of ideas suggestions and experiences among participants; provide PhD students an opportunity to present, share and discuss their research in a constructive and critical atmosphere. We seek PhD students who have either determined the direction of their thesis research (probably with some preliminary results already published), but who still have substantial work to complete, or PhD student participants who are in the early stages of their dissertations. It is not required to have a paper accepted for the main conference in order to participate to the ICFEM’2018 Doctoral Symposium.

This year's ICFEM will be held in Singapore right after the 25th International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems (ICECCS 2020) in Singapore. We would like to encourage you to attend both conferences with one business trip.

Important notice: Due to the uncertainty of COVID-19 situation, virtural presentation will be considered (with discounted registration fee) if physical presentation is not feasible at the time of the conference.

Scope and Topics

The technical scope of the symposium is generally that of ICFEM. Due to the recent attention on Trustworthiness of Machine Learning Software System, this year, we would like to specially feature the topic on formal methods for trustworthy Machine Learning System, including but not limited to the following topics:

  • Formal methods for machine learning component
  • Formal methods for machine learning system
  • Formal specification and modelling
  • Formal verification and analysis
  • Model checking
  • Formal approaches to software testing and inspection
  • Formal methods for self-adaptive systems
  • Formal methods for object-oriented systems
  • Formal methods for component-based systems
  • Abstraction, refinement and evolution
  • Formal methods for concurrent and real-time systems
  • Formal methods for cloud computing
  • Formal methods for cyber-physical systems
  • Formal methods for software safety and security
  • Formal methods for software reliability and dependability
  • Development, integration and experiments involving verified systems
  • Formal certification of products under international standards
  • Formal model-based development and code generation

Paper Submission

The Doctoral Symposium papers will be published in Springer in the LNCS volume as part of the main ICFEM 2020 proceedings.

Papers should be written in English and should not exceed 4 pages (including references) in the Springer's LNCS format. Preferably, submissions should include: Title of the paper and the author name; Problem statement, motivations, and progress; Current development and related work; Proposed solutions, approach and methodology, and their significance; Current results and assessment; Future work. Formatting style files and further guidelines for formatting can be found at the Springer website (more details here). Submissions should be made through the ICFEM 2020 submission page, on the “ICFEM 2020 Doctoral Symposium” track, handled by the EasyChair conference management system.

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Important Dates

Full Paper Submissions Due: 5 19 August 2 Sept (AOE) 2020

Notification: 12 26 August 9 Sept 2020

Camera-ready Due: 20 August 3 Sept 16 Sept 2020

Program

TBD

Registration

Refer to the main conference registration section.

Official Sponsors

NUS       NTU       SMU

DEPINTEL: Dependable Intelligence


ICFEM'18 is an outstanding opportunity for you to reach the ‘thought leaders’ in this industry with your message, and for your Software Engineering team to network and exchange ideas with their peers in this unique and innovative forum.

Sponsors are offered the opportunity to reach over 100 software engineering experts, including researchers and industry practitioners such as developers, QA and engineering managers.

New sponsorship are welcome and any entity wishing to become an official sponsor may contact the sponsorship chair.

Conference Organising Committee

General Co-Chairs

Jin Song Dong, NUS and Griffith University, Singapore/Australia
Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia​


Program Co-Chairs

Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia
Brendan Mahony, Defence Science and Technology, Australia​


Finance Chair

Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore


Workshop Chair

Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia


Doctorial Symposium Co-Chairs

Lei Ma, Kyushu University, Japan
Weiyi Shang, Concordia University, Canada
Xiaoning Du, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore


Program Committee

Yamine Ait Ameur, IRIT/INPT-ENSEEIHT, France
Étienne André, Univesrity of Lorraine, France
Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Christian Attiogbe, University of Nantes, France
Guangdong Bai, University of Queensland, Australia
Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
Richard Banach, The University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Luis Barbosa, University of Minho, Portugal
Hadrien Bride, Griffith University, Australia
Michael Butler, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Franck Cassez, Macquarie University, Australia
Ana Cavalcanti, University of York, United Kingdom
Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Zhenbang Chen, National University of Defense Technology, China
Yu-Fang Chen, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Yean-Ru Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Wei-Ngan Chin, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Ranald Clouston, Australian National University, Australia
Sylvain Conchon, Universite Paris-Sud, France
Florin Craciun, Babes-Bolyai University, Romania
Jeremy Dawson, Australian National University, Australia
Frank De Boer, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands
Yuxin Deng, East China Normal University, China
Jin Song Dong, Griffith University and NUS, Australia
Naipeng Dong, University of Queensland, Australia
Zhenhua Duan, Xidian University, China​
Marc Frappier, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Lindsay Groves, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Ichiro Hasuo, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Xudong He, Florida International University, United States
Zhe Hou, Griffith University, Australia
Pao-Ann Hsiung, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
Fuyuki Ishikawa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Fabrice Kordon, LIP6/Sorbonne Universite & CNRS, France
Yi Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Xuandong Li, Nanjing University, China
Shang-Wei Lin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Yang Liu, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Zhiming Liu, Southwest University, China
Shuang Liu, Tianjin University, China
Brendan Mahony, DSTO, Australia
Jim McCarthy, Defence Science and Technology, Australia​
Dominique Mery, Université de Lorraine, France
Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy, France
Shin Nakajima, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Yu Pei, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
Shengchao Qin, Teesside University, United Kingdom
Silvio Ranise, FBK-Irst, Italy
Elvinia Riccobene, University of Milan, Italy
Adrian Riesco, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
David Sanan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Zhejiang University, China
Harald Sondergaard, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Meng Sun, Peking University, China
Jing Sun, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
Alwen Tiu, The Australian National University, Australia
Elena Troubitsyna, KTH, Sweden
Hai H. Wang, University of Aston, United Kingdom
Bow-Yaw Wang, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Virginie Wiels, ONERA / DTIM, France
Zhiwu Xu, Shenzhen University, China
Naijun Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jian Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Jaco van de Pol, Aarhus University, Denmark
Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo, Norway