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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Third
Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS 2021)</b></span></span></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This two-day workshop will bring together researchers working on a range of techniques for formal verification of autonomous systems, to present recent
work in the area, discuss key difficulties, and stimulate collaboration between the robotics and formal methods communities.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FMAS2021 will be held</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">online</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
due to the ongoing disruption caused by COVID-19, on the</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">21st and 22nd of October
2021</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You can register to attend FMAS2021, for</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">free</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
using our eventbrite page:</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-workshop-on-formal-methods-for-autonomous-systems-fmas-2021-tickets-177959861737" title="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-workshop-on-formal-methods-for-autonomous-systems-fmas-2021-tickets-177959861737" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-workshop-on-formal-methods-for-autonomous-systems-fmas-2021-tickets-177959861737</span></a></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">More details, including the full list of accepted papers, can be found on our website:</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://fmasworkshop.github.io/FMAS2021" title="https://fmasworkshop.github.io/FMAS2021" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">https://fmasworkshop.github.io/FMAS2021</span></a></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Scope</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Autonomous -- and Robotic -- Systems present unique challenges for formal methods. They are embodied entities that can interact with the real world and
make autonomous decisions. Amongst others, they can be viewed as safety-critical, cyber-physical, hybrid, and real-time systems. Key issues for formal methods applied to autonomous systems include capturing how the system will deal with a dynamic external
environment and verification of the system's decision making capabilities -- including planning, safety, ethical, and reconfiguration choices. Some autonomous systems require certification before deployment, others require public trust for wide adoption; both
of these scenarios are being tackled by formal methods.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The goals of this workshop are to bring together leading researchers in this area to present recent and ongoing work, including experience reports and
case studies as well as identify future directions for this emerging application of formal methods. This workshop is concerned with the use of formal methods to specify, model, or verify autonomous or robotic systems, in whole or in part. Submissions may focus
on case studies that identify the challenges for formal methods in this area, or experience reports that provide guidelines for tackling these challenges.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are especially interested in work using integrated formal methods, discussing the future directions of the field, using Runtime Verification or other
approaches to deal with the _reality gap_, the cross over of safety and security, and verification of systems against safety assurance arguments or standards documents.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Registration</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">This year, FMAS will be held</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">online</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> via
a video conference system. We will circulate details closer to the event, when the number of attendees is clearer.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">You can register to attend FMAS2021, for</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">free</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">,
using our</span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-workshop-on-formal-methods-for-autonomous-systems-fmas-2021-tickets-177959861737" title="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/third-workshop-on-formal-methods-for-autonomous-systems-fmas-2021-tickets-177959861737" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">eventbrite</span></a><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> page.</span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Invited Talks</b></span></div>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have two invited talks for FMAS 2021:</span></div>
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<li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "Help or Hazard: Towards Verifying Autonomous Robot Systems" by Clare Dixon, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Manchester (UK)</span></li><li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> "Understanding and Verifying Deep Neural Networks" by Divya Gopinath, Researcher in Formal Verification in the Robust Software Engineering (RSE) group at the NASA Ames Research
Center</span></li></ul>
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<div style="margin:0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Chairs</b></span></div>
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<li><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Matt Luckcuck <matt.luckcuck@mu.ie>, Maynooth University, Ireland</span></li><li style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marie Farrell <marie.farrell@mu.ie>, Maynooth University, Ireland</span></li></ul>
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