BOOM! Big data meets formal methods
A workshop at CONFESTA
September 8
Beijing, China
Description
Big data is booming. Advanced data analytic techniques, like deep learning,
predict the weather, buy and sell stocks, beat the humans in chess playing,
diagnose diseases from CT scans, and recommend us which books to buy.
Big data is gaining more and more importance in the area for formal methods:
quantitative analysis techniques largely depend on the values of the input
parameters, which could be learned from historic data. Moreover, automatic
learning formal models themselves, or model skeletons as well as solutions
have gained a lot of momentum with techniques like model mining, and
reinforcement learning. In the other direction, formal methods have also a
lot to offer for the development of big data analytic techniques, such as
the verification of deep learning algorithms, model-based classification
algorithms, methods and models for data cleaning etc.
As there are no formal proceedings for the workshop, the main focus is on a
broad range of topics that trigger lively discussions. Selected abstracts
will be invited for a special issue of the Journal on
Reliable Intelligent Environments.
Organizers
- Nils Jansen. Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands
- Marielle Stoelinga. University of Twente, the Netherlands
Keynotes
- Alessandro Abate Oxford University, UK
Formal verification of complex systems: model-based and
data-driven methods.
Abstract
- Luca Bortolussi University of Trieste, Italy
Parametric Verification and Synthesis: the Bayesian Machine
Learning Way.
Abstract
Submission instructions
We particularly invite work recently accepted to top conferences and ongoing work.
Accepted presentations will not be subject to proceedings publication,
though there will be invitations for selected abstracts for a special issue
of the Journal on Reliable Intelligent Environments.
Imporant dates
- Submission of abstracts: June 28
- Notification. June 30
- Workshop. September 8, 2018