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FMTea 2024: Formal Methods Teaching Workshop

Politecnico di Milano

Milan, Italy, September 10, 2024

Conference website https://fmtea.github.io/

Invited Speaker

Leslie Lamport, Microsoft Research, USA – Turing Award Winner

Formal methods originated as a means for the rigorous construction of software systems. While formal methods are increasingly being used in industry in recent years, university curricula are not adapting at the same pace. Some existing formal methods classes interest and challenge students, whereas others fail to ignite student motivation. In particular, after the pandemic, student engagement has not returned to the status quo ante. It is thus important to develop, share, and discuss approaches to effectively teach formal methods to the next generations.

We envision this event as a one-day combination of keynote and workshop presentations, where various models of teaching are presented and explored, together with innovative approaches relevant to educators of Formal Methods in the 21st century.

Organization

FMTea'24 is organized by FME’s Teaching Committee. Our broad aim is to support a worldwide improvement in learning Formal Methods, mainly by teaching but also via self-learning. To that end, we have already gathered a list of FM courses taught worldwide (https://fme-teaching.github.io) and plan to collect other resources as well, such as FM case studies, FM inspirational papers, etc. Furthermore, the FME Teaching Committee coordinates a tutorial series held online. Tutorials are collected on the FME Teaching Committee website (https://fme-teaching.github.io/).

Topics

FMTea'24 invites high-quality papers reporting on opinions, approaches, and experiences related to the topic of teaching Formal Methods. We aim to attract papers detailing authors’ experiences with FM Teaching. We welcome papers discussing the successes and failures of various methods, case studies, tools, etc. As self-learning is an emerging aspect of formal methods, we appreciate experiences with online teaching, including experiences with teaching formal methods via MOOCs. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest for the FMTea'24 workshop is below:

- Experiences and proposals related to "traditional" and online FM learning and teaching

- Integrating and embedding formal methods within other computer science courses

- Teaching formal methods for industry

- Innovative learning and teaching methods, like automated grading and automated feedback using Large Language Models

- Student projects, including group projects

Software development is transforming into a rigorous engineering discipline. Improved teaching techniques will ensure that FM is at the heart of this transformation process.

Submission Details

Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three PC members. All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted for publication elsewhere.

Submissions must be in PDF format, using the Springer LNCS style files (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines). We suggest using the LaTeX2e package (the llncs.cls class file, available in llncs2e.zip and the typeinst.dem available in typeinst.zip as a template for your contribution). Papers should not exceed 15 pages (including references) in length. Submissions should be made using the FMTea'24 Easychair website:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fmtea2024

All accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the conference by an early date, to be indicated by the FM 2024 organizers, and present the paper.

Important Dates

10 May 2024: Deadline for submission of papers

10 June 2024: Notifications to authors

24 June 2024: Deadline for camera-ready version

10 September 2024: FMTea'24 Workshop

Program Committee Chairs

Leila Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

Emil Sekerinski, McMaster University, Canada

Program Committee

Erika Ábrahám, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Sandrine Blazy, University of Rennes 1, France

Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE, France

Brijesh Dongol, University of Surrey, UK

João F. Ferreira, INESC-ID & IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Stefan Hallerstede, Aarhus University, Denmark

Thierry Lecomte, CLEARSY, France

Michael Leuschel, University of Düsseldorf, Germany

Alexandra Mendes, INESC TEC & Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal

Tim Nelson, Brown University, US

Markus Kuppe, Microsoft, US

David Pearce, ConsenSys & Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Luigia Petre, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Pierluigi San Pietro, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Graeme Smith, The University of Queensland, Australia

Previous Editions

The previous editions are listed on the workshop homepage (https://fmtea.github.io/).

Publication

The proceedings will be published in the Formal Methods Teaching series of Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (https://link.springer.com/conference/tfm).

Venue

FMTea'24 is affiliated with FM 2024 (https://www.fm24.polimi.it/), the 26th International Symposium on Formal Methods, held at Politecnico di Milano, September 9 – 13, 2024.

Contact

Questions about submissions should be directed to the program committee chairs, Leila Ribeiro <address@concealed> and Emil Sekerinski <address@concealed>.