Scope and Topics

SBMF aims to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of high-quality work in formal methods. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Applications of formal methods

  • Software or hardware design
  • Software or hardware development
  • Software or hardware code generation
  • Software or hardware testing
  • Software maintenance, evolution and reuse
  • Intelligent systems

Specification & modeling languages

  • Logic and semantics for specification and programming languages
  • Formal methods for timed, real-time, hybrid, or safety-critical systems
  • Formal methods for service-oriented, cloud-based, or cyber-physical systems

Theoretical foundations

  • Domain theory
  • Term rewriting
  • Computational models
  • Type systems and category theory
  • Computational complexity of methods and models
  • Models of time, concurrency, security, and mobility

Verification and validation

  • Abstraction, modularization, and refinement techniques
  • Static analysis
  • Model checking
  • Theorem proving
  • Software certification
  • Correctness by construction

Experience reports

  • Reports on teaching formal methods
  • Reports on the industrial application of formal methods