7th Workshop on Verification and Monitoring at Runtime Execution

Runtime Monitoring (RM) is concerned with the runtime analysis of software and hardware system executions in order to infer properties relating to system behaviour. Example applications include telemetry, log aggregation, threshold alerting, performance monitoring and adherence to correctness properties (more commonly referred to as runtime verification). RM has gained popularity as a solution to ensure software reliability, bridging the gap between formal verification and testing: on the one hand, the notion of event trace abstracts over system executions, thus favoring system agnosticism to better support reuse and interoperability; on the other hand, monitoring a system offers more opportunities for addressing error recovery, self-adaptation, and issues that go beyond software reliability. The goal of VORTEX is to bring together researchers contributing on all aspects of RM covering and possibly integrating both theoretical and practical aspects, with particular focus on hybrid approaches inspired by formal methods, program analysis, testing, and artificial intelligence.

Keynotes

Keynote TBA

Kristin Yvonne Rozier

Runtime Invariant Checking in Robotic Systems and Deep Learning Models

Xiangyu Zhang

Operational and Declarative Runtime Verification and their Combination

Doron Peled, Klaus Havelund

Call for Papers

Submissions are expected to be in English and to belong to one of the following two categories:

• regular paper, page limit 8 in acmart sigconf style: unpublished self-contained work
• extended abstract, page limit 4 in acmart sigconf style: original contribution, not yet fully developed

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following ones:

• monitor construction and synthesis techniques
• program adaptation
• monitoring oriented programming
• runtime enforcement, fault detection, recovery and repair
• combination of static and dynamic analyses
• specification formalisms for RM
• specification mining
• monitoring concurrent/distributed systems
• RM for safety and security
• RM for the Internet of Things
• industrial applications
• integrating RM, formal verification, testing, and artificial intelligence
• tool development
• instrumentation techniques for RM
• surveys on different RM tools, formal frameworks or methodologies
• presentations of RM tools
• techniques for enhancing code coverage in offline RM

Papers must be submitted electronically via EasyChair; the submission deadlines are July 1st AoE (abstract) and July 8th AoE (paper). Authors should use the official ACM Master article template, which can be obtained from the ACM Proceedings Template pages.

Latex users should use the sigconf option, as well as review to produce line numbers for easy reference by the reviewers, as indicated by the following command:

\documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}

Remark: Although attendance in person is strongly encouraged, on line presentations at the workshop will be supported in case of need.

Proceedings: see the specific page

The workshop proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library.

Depending on the quality and number of submissions, authors of selected papers will be invited to contribute with extended versions to be included in a special issue of the Journal of Object Technology - JOT.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE:

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

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