Runtime verification is concerned with the monitoring and analysis of
the runtime behaviour of software and hardware systems. Runtime
verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability,
and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and
effectiveness compared to conventional testing, and are generally more
practical than exhaustive formal verification. Runtime verification can
be used prior to deployment, for testing, verification, and debugging
purposes, and after deployment for ensuring reliability, safety, and
security and for providing fault containment and recovery as well as
online system repair.
Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:
specification languages
monitor construction techniques
program instrumentation
logging, recording, and replay
combination of static and dynamic analysis
specification mining and machine learning over runtime traces
monitoring techniques for concurrent and distributed systems
runtime checking of privacy and security policies
statistical model checking
metrics and statistical information gathering
program/system execution visualization
fault localization, containment, recovery and repair
integrated vehicle health management (IVHM)
Application areas of runtime verification include cyber-physical
systems, safety/mission-critical systems, enterprise and systems
software, autonomous and reactive control systems, health management and
diagnosis systems, and system security and privacy.
We welcome contributions exploring the combination of runtime
verification techniques with machine learning and static analysis.
Whilst these are highlight topics, papers falling into these categories
will not be treated differently from other contributions.
An overview of previous RV conferences and earlier workshops can be found at: http://www.runtime-verification.org.
RV 2017 will be held September 13-16 in Seattle, WA, USA. RV 2017
will feature a tutorial day (September 13), and three conference days
(September 14-16).
Important Dates
Papers as well as tutorial proposals will follow the following timeline:
Abstract deadline: April 24, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)
Paper and tutorial deadline: May 1, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth)
Tutorial notification: May 21, 2017
Paper notification: June 26, 2017
Camera-ready deadline: July 24, 2017
Conference: September 13-16, 2017
Invited Speakers
We are very pleased to confirm the following invited speakers for RV 2017:
Rodrigo Fonseca, Brown University, USA
Vlad Levin and Jakob Lichtenberg, Microsoft, USA
Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany
General Information on Submissions
All papers and tutorials will appear in the conference proceedings
in an LNCS volume. Submitted papers and tutorials must use the
LNCS/Springer style detailed here:
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
Papers must be original work and not be submitted for publication
elsewhere. Papers must be written in English and submitted
electronically (in PDF format) using the EasyChair submission page here:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rv17
The page limitations mentioned below include all text and figures,
but exclude references. Additional details omitted due to space
limitations may be included in a clearly marked appendix, that will be
reviewed at the discretion of reviewers, but not included in the
proceedings.
At least one author of each accepted paper and tutorial must attend RV 2017 to present.
Paper Submissions
There are three categories of papers which can be submitted:
regular, short or tool papers. Papers in each category will be reviewed
by at least 3 members of the Program Committee.
Regular Papers (up to 15 pages, not including references) should
present original unpublished results. We welcome theoretical papers,
system papers, papers describing domain-specific variants of RV, and
case studies on runtime verification.
Short Papers (up to 6 pages, not including references) may
present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for
example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or
techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime
verification and other domains.
Tool Demonstration Papers (up to 8 pages, not including
references) should present a new tool, a new tool component, or novel
extensions to existing tools supporting runtime verification. The paper
must include information on tool availability, maturity, selected
experimental results and it should provide a link to a website
containing the theoretical background and user guide. Furthermore, we
strongly encourage authors to make their tools and benchmarks available
with their submission.
The Program Committee of RV 2017 will give a best paper award, and a
selection of accepted regular papers will be invited to appear in a
special issue of the Springer Journal on Formal Methods in System
Design.
Tutorial Submissions
Tutorials are two-to-three-hour presentations on a selected topic.
Additionally, tutorial presenters will be offered to publish a paper of
up to 20 pages in the LNCS conference proceedings, not including
references.
A proposal for a tutorial must contain the subject of the tutorial, a
proposed timeline, a note on previous similar tutorials (if applicable)
and the differences to this incarnation, and a brief biography of the
presenter. The proposal should not exceed 2 pages.
Organization
General Chair
Klaus Havelund, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Program Chairs
Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research, USA
Giles Reger, University of Manchester, UK
Finance Chair
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Publicity Chair
Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Local Organisation Chairs
Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA
Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA
Program Committee
Wolfgang Ahrendt, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden
Cyrille Artho, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Howard Barringer, The University of Manchester, UK
Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Andreas Bauer, KUKA Systems, Germany
Saddek Bensalem, VERIMAG (University of Grenoble Alpes), France
Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT and Technische University Darmstadt, Germany
Borzoo Bonakdarpour, McMaster University, Canada
Christian Colombo, University of Malta, Malta
Ylies Falcone, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Grigory Fedyukovich, University of Washington, USA
Lu Feng, University of Virginia, USA
Patrice Godefroid, Microsoft Research, USA
Jean Goubault-Larrecq, CNRS & ENS de Cachan, France
Alex Groce, Northern Arizona University, USA
Radu Grosu, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Sylvain Hallé, University of Québec at Chicoutimi, Canada
Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands
Franjo Ivancic, Google
Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala University, Sweden
Felix Klaedtke, NEC Europe Ltd.
Rahul Kumar, Microsoft Research, USA
Kim Larsen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Axel Legay, Inria Rennes, France
Martin Leucker, University of Lübeck, Germany
Ben Livshits, Microsoft Research, USA
David Lo, Singapore Management University, Singapore
Francesco Logozzo, Facebook
Parthasarathy Madhusudan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Leonardo Mariani, University of Milan Bicocca, Italy
Madanlal Musuvathi, Microsoft Research
Ayoub Nouri, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
Gordon Pace, University of Malta, Malta
Doron Peled, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Veselin Raychev, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Cesar Sanchez, IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Gerardo Schneider, Chalmers Univ. of Technology/Univ. of Gothenburg, Sweden
Rahul Sharma, Microsoft Research, USA
Julien Signoles, CEA LIST, France
Scott Smolka, Stony Brook University, USA
Oleg Sokolsky, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Bernhard Steffen, University of Dortmund, Germany
Scott Stoller, Stony Brook University, USA
Volker Stolz, University of Olso, Norway
Frits Vaandrager, Radboud University, Netherlands
Neil Walkinshaw, University of Leicester, UK
Chao Wang, University of Southern California, USA
Eugen Zalinescu, Technische Universitat München, Germany
