17th International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments
October 06-07, 2025, Menlo Park, California, USA
Co-located with Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design 2025 (FMCAD 2025<https://fmcad.org/FMCAD25/>)
Key Information
Conference Website: https://systemf.epfl.ch/etc/vstte2025/
Paper submission Deadline: July 18th AoE
This year, VSTTE accepts both (short and long) regular papers to be included in post-conference proceedings and work-in-progress (presentation only) papers.
Overview
The goal of the VSTTE conference series is to advance the state of the art in the science and technology of software verification, through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation.
The Verified Software Initiative (VSI), spearheaded by Tony Hoare and Jayadev Misra, is an ambitious research program for making large-scale verified software a practical reality. The International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments (VSTTE) is the main forum for advancing the initiative. VSTTE brings together experts spanning the spectrum of software verification in order to foster international collaboration on the critical research challenges. The theoretical work includes semantic foundations and logics for specification and verification, and verification algorithms and methodologies. The tools cover specification and annotation languages, program analyzers, model checkers, interactive verifiers and proof checkers, automated theorem provers and SAT/SMT solvers, and integrated verification environments. The experimental work drives the research agenda for theory and tools by taking on significant specification/verification exercises covering hardware, operating systems, compilers, computer security, parallel computing, and cyber-physical systems.
Call for papers and work-in-progress presentations
VSTTE 2025 welcomes submissions describing significant advances in the production of verified software, i.e. software that has been proved to meet its functional specifications. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that focus on specific problems or problem domains. We are especially interested in submissions describing large-scale verification efforts that involve collaboration, theory unification, tool integration, and formalized domain knowledge. We also welcome papers describing novel experiments and case studies evaluating verification techniques and technologies.
In addition to regular papers, we welcome submissions on in-progress verified software projects to a "work-in-progress (presentation-only)" track. Work-in-progress contributions will not appear in the post-proceedings of the conference. Submissions describing work of interest to the software verification community, but that could not be accepted for publication in the conference proceedings, may be invited to the "work-in-progress (presentation-only)" track, on a case-by-case basis.
Topics of interest for this conference include, but are not limited to, requirements modeling, specification languages, specification/verification/certification case studies, formal calculi, software design methods, automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, compositional analysis, verification tools (e.g., static analysis, dynamic analysis, model checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration, benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments.
Submissions
VSTTE 2025 accepts both long (limited to 16 pages, excluding references) and short (limited to 10 pages, excluding references) paper submissions. Short submissions also cover "verification pearls" describing an elegant proof or proof technique. Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere.
Papers may be submitted via EasyChair at the VSTTE 2025 conference submission page<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte25>. The use of LaTeX and the Springer LNCS class files<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines> is strongly encouraged. Submissions that are not in the proper format or are too long will not be considered.
Accepted regular-track papers will be included in the post-conference proceedings of VSTTE 2025, which will be published as a LNCS volume by Springer-Verlag. Authors of those papers will have to transfer copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag.
Important Dates
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Abstract submission: July 14th AoE
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Paper submission: July 18th AoE
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Notification of acceptance: Aug 31th (AoE)
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Final pre-conference paper submission: September 26th (AoE)
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Conference: October 6th-7th
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Camera-ready for papers included in post-conference proceedings: TBA
Invited speakers
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Caroline Trippel<https://cs.stanford.edu/people/trippel/> (Stanford University)
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Grant Passmore<https://www.imandra.ai/about> (Imandra)
Invited tutorial speakers
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Pierre-Yves Strub<https://www.strub.nu/> (PQShield)
Chairs
Steering Committee
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Supratik Chakraborty<https://www.cse.iitb.ac.in/~supratik/> (IIT Bombay, India)
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Natarajan Shankar<https://www.csl.sri.com/~shankar/> (SRI International)
Program Chairs
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Clément Pit-Claudel<https://pit-claudel.fr/clement/> (EPFL)
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Katherine Kosaian<https://sites.google.com/view/katherinekosaian> (University of Iowa)
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