Call for Papers

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
• dynamic type checking

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 2018 will be held November 10-13 in Limassol, Cyprus. RV 2018 will feature a tutorial day (November 10), and three conference days (November 11-13).

Important dates

General information on submissions

All accepted papers (including short papers) will appear in the conference proceedings in an LNCS volume. More precisely, the proceedings will appear within the formal methods subline of LNCS. Submitted papers must use the LNCS/Springer style detailed here.

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.

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 must attend RV 2018 for presentation.

Paper submissions

There are two categories of papers which can be submitted: regular or short 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. Note that this is separate from the “Industrial Day” organised as part of ISoLA where tools can be exhibited, so participation in one does not preclude the other.

The Program Committee of RV 2018 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.

Related events

The RV conference also includes an RV tool contest as well as an exhibition of industrial-strength runtime verification tools and approaches. Separate calls for contribution to these events will be issued soon.

Committees