# Fourth Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS 2022)
FMAS 2022 is a two-day workshop that brings together researchers working on a
range of techniques for the formal verification of autonomous systems, to
present recent work in the area, discuss key challenges, and stimulate
collaboration between autonomous systems and formal methods researchers.
More details can be found on our website:
https://fmasworkshop.github.io/FMAS2022/
Our twitter account is: https://twitter.com/FMASWorkshop and posts about this
year's workshop use the tag #FMAS2022
## Important Dates
* Submission: 29th of July 2022 (Anywhere on Earth
https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe)
* Notification: 2nd of September 2022
* Final Version: 14th of September 2022
* Workshop: 26th and 27th of September 2022
## Scope
Autonomous systems present unique challenges for formal methods. They are
often embodied in robotic systems that can interact with the real world, and
they make independent decisions. Amongst other categories, they can be viewed
as safety-critical, cyber-physical, hybrid, and real-time systems.
Key challenges for applying formal methods to autonomous systems include:
* the system's dynamic deployment environment;
* verifying the system's decision making capabilities -- including planning,
ethical, and reconfiguration choices; and
* using formal methods results as evidence given to certification or
regulatory organisations.
FMAS welcomes submissions that use formal methods to specify, model, or verify
autonomous systems; in whole or in part. We are especially interested in work
using integrated formal methods, where multiple (formal or non-formal) methods
are combined during the software engineering process.
Autonomous systems are often embedded in robotic or cyber-physical systems,
and they share many features (and verification challenges) with automated
systems. FMAS welcomes submissions with applications to:
* automated systems,
* semi-autonomous systems, or
* fully-autonomous systems.
### Topics
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Novel or Integrated Formal Methods that are suited to Autonomous or
Automated Systems,
* Runtime Verification or other formal approaches to deal with the _reality
gap_ (the gap between models/simulations and the real world),
* Verification against safety assurance arguments or standards documents,
* Formal specification and requirements engineering approaches for autonomous
systems,
* Case Studies that identify challenges when applying formal methods to
autonomous systems,
* Experience Reports that provide guidance for tackling challenges with formal
methods or tools, or
* Discussions of the future directions of the field.
Because the above list is not exhaustive, if you are unsure if your paper is
in scope for FMAS please feel free to email us (details below) to discuss
it.
## Submission and Publication
There are four categories of submission:
* **Vision papers** *6 pages (excluding references)* describe directions for
research into Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems;
* **Research previews** *6 pages (excluding references)* describe
well-defined research ideas that are in their early stages, and my not be
fully developed yet. Work from PhD students is particularly welcome;
* **Experience report papers** *15 pages (excluding references)* report on
practical experiences in applying Formal Methods to Autonomous Systems,
focussing on the experience and lessons to be learnt;
* **Regular papers** *15 pages (excluding references)* describe completed
applications of Formal Methods to an Autonomous System, new or improved
approaches, evaluations of existing approaches, and so on.
These categories are intended to help you show your intent for your paper, and
to allow a fairer comparison of papers. For example, a Research Preview won't
be judged as not developed enough for acceptance, purely because it is
compared to a Standard Paper. The category descriptions are not exhaustive and
should be interpreted broadly. If you are unsure if your paper clearly fits
into one of these categories, please feel free to email us (details below) to
discuss it.
Submission details
* Submission Link:
[https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmas2022](https://easychair.org/conf
erences/?conf=fmas2022);
* Submissions must be prepared using the [EPTCS LaTeX
style](http://style.eptcs.org/).
Each submission will receive at least three, single-blind reviews. If a paper
is accepted, at least one of the authors must attend the workshop to present
their work. We intend that accepted papers will be published via
[EPTCS](http://www.eptcs.org/).
## Venue
FMAS 2022 will be held on the 26th and 27th of September 2022, co-located with
the [International Conference on Software Engineering and Formal Methods
(SEFM) 2022](https://sefm-conference.github.io/2022/), hosted by Humboldt
University, Berlin.
We will accept participation in-person and remotely, details are still being
finalised.
## Chairs
* Matt Luckcuck , Maynooth University, Ireland
* Marie Farrell , Maynooth University, Ireland
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