Call for Papers: NFM 2027
The Nineteenth NASA Formal Methods Symposium
May 11-13 2027
University of Houston Clear Lake, Houston, Texas, USA
Call for Papers
NFM 2027 is currently accepting submissions in several categories. Regular papers may present fully developed research and complete results, while short-paper categories include papers describing novel publicly available tools and case studies documenting applications of formal methods to real systems with publicly available artifacts.
Important submission dates include:
- Abstract submission deadline: January 4, 2027
- Paper submission deadline: January 11, 2027
- Author notification: February 26, 2027
- Symposium: May 11–13, 2027
Accepted papers will appear in the Formal Methods subline of Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
Topics of Interest
We encourage submissions on cross-cutting approaches that bring together formal methods and techniques from other domains such as probabilistic reasoning, machine learning, control theory, robotics, and quantum computing among others.
- Formal verification, including theorem proving, model checking, and static analysis
- Advances in automated theorem proving including SAT and SMT solving
- Use of formal methods in software and system testing
- Run-time verification
- Techniques and algorithms for scaling formal methods, such as abstraction and symbolic methods, compositional techniques, as well as parallel and/or distributed techniques
- Code generation from formally verified models
- Safety cases and system safety
- Formal approaches to fault tolerance
- Theoretical advances and empirical evaluations of formal methods techniques for safety-critical systems, including hybrid and embedded systems
- Formal methods in systems engineering and model-based development
- Correct-by-design controller synthesis
- Formal assurance methods to handle adaptive systems