The 22nd edition of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods will be held between 4 and 8 November 2024 at the University of Aveiro, Portugal.

The conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and government, to advance the state of the art in formal methods, to facilitate their uptake in the software industry, and to encourage their integration within practical software engineering methods and tools.

Submission Guidelines

We solicit two categories of papers:

• Regular papers describing original research results, case studies, or surveys, should not exceed 16 pages (excluding bibliography of at most two pages).
• Tool papers that describe an operational tool and its contributions should not exceed 8 pages.

Papers must be formatted according to the guidelines for Springer LNCS papers. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere.

Papers can be submitted through Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sefm2024.

List of Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following aspects of software engineering and formal methods.

Software Development Methods

• Formal modelling, specification, and design
• Software evolution, maintenance, re-engineering, and reuse

Design Principles

• Programming languages
• Domain-specific languages
• Type theory
• Abstraction and refinement

Software Testing, Validation, and Verification

• Model checking, theorem proving, and decision procedures
• Testing and runtime verification
• Statistical and probabilistic analysis
• Synthesis
• Performance estimation and analysis of other non-functional properties
• Other light-weight and scalable formal methods

Security and Safety

• Security, privacy, and trust
• Safety-critical, fault-tolerant, and secure systems
• Software certification

Applications and Technology Transfer

• Service-oriented and cloud computing systems, Internet of Things
• Component, object, multi-agent and self-adaptive systems
• Real-time, hybrid, and cyber-physical systems
• Intelligent systems and machine learning
• Quantum systems
• HCI, interactive systems, and human error analysis
• Education

Case studies, best practices, and experience reports

Committees

Program Committee

• Luis S. Barbosa, University of Minho
• Mario Bravetti, University of Bologna
• Radu Calinescu, University of York
• Taolue Chen, Birkbeck, University of London
• Rance Cleaveland, University of Maryland
• Alcino Cunha, University of Minho
• Carla Ferreira, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
• João Ferreira University of Lisbon
• Adrian Francalanza, University of Malta
• Hubert Garavel, INRIA
• Mario Gleirscher, University of Bremen
• Marie-Christine Jakobs, LMU Munich
• Christian Johansen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Daniela Kaufmann, TU Wien
• Alexander Knapp, University of Augsburg (co-chair)
• Burcu Kulahcioglu Ozkan, Delft University of Technology
• Alexandre Madeira, University of Aveiro (co-chair)
• Manuel A. Martins, University of Aveiro
• Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor
• Charles Morisset, Newcastle University
• Stephan Merz, Inria Nancy
• Renato Neves, University of Minho
• Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca
• Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo
• Jovanka Pantovic, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences
• Carlos Pombo, University of Buenos Aires
• José Proença, University of Porto
• Gwen Salaün, Université Grenoble Alpes
• Augusto Sampaio, Federal university of Pernambuco
• Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University
• Ana Sokolova, University of Salzburg
• Pierre-Yves Schobbens, University of Namur
• Meng Sun, Peking University
• Bernardo Toninho, Universidade Nova de Lisboa and NOVA-LINCS
• Ionut Tutu, Romanian Academy
• Tim Willemse, Eindhoven University of Technology

Steering committee

• Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK
• Antonio Cerone, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
• Rocco De Nicola, IMT - School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy
• Gwen Salaün, University of Grenoble Alpes, France
• Marjan Sirjani, Malardalen University, Sweden
• Bernd-Holger Schlingloff, Fraunhofer FOKUS and Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany
• Ming Chai, Beijing Jiaotong University, China

Invited Speakers

• t.b.a.

Publication

All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of the conference that will be published as a volume in Springer’s LNCS series.

Venue

The 22nd edition of the International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods will be held between 6 and 8 November 2024, with workshops taking place on 4 and 5 November 2024.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to Alexandre Madeira (madeira@ua.pt) or Alexander Knapp (alexander.knapp@uni-a.de).