The 2022 ACL2 Workshop will be held in Austin, Texas, USA, in May 2022. The extent of in-person activities will be determined by the status of the pandemic, but there will be online support for all presentations. We invite users of ACL2, users of other theorem provers, and persons interested in the applications of theorem proving technology to attend.
Here is a link to a text file containing an email Call for Papers, corresponding to the first three sections below.
Abstract submission: February 22, 2022 Paper submission: March 1, 2022 Author Notification: April 5, 2022 Camera-ready (author) April 26, 2022 Workshop: May 26-27, 2022
The ACL2 Workshop series is the major technical forum for users of the ACL2 theorem proving system to present research related to the ACL2 theorem prover and its applications. ACL2 is an industrial-strength automated reasoning system, the latest in the Boyer-Moore family of theorem provers. The 2005 ACM Software System Award was awarded to Boyer, Kaufmann, and Moore for their work in ACL2 and the other theorem provers in the Boyer-Moore family.
ACL2-2022 is planned to be a two-day workshop to be held in Austin, Texas, USA, on May 26-27, 2022. The workshop is planned to be held in-person on the University of Texas at Austin campus. In addition to in-person participation, the workshop will support online participation for all talks and presentations. The workshop will be the 17th in the series of ACL2 workshops, which occur approximately every 18 months. The workshop will feature technical papers as well as rump sessions that discuss ongoing research.
There will be two invited keynote talks, given by:
We invite submissions of papers on any topic related to ACL2 and its applications, and we strongly encourage submissions related to other theorem provers or formal methods that are of interest to the ACL2 community. Suggested topics include but are not limited to new results in the following areas.
Submissions must be made electronically in PDF format. Submissions should be prepared in the EPTCS templates, available from http://style.eptcs.org, and submitted via EasyChair at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acl22022
The ACL2 Workshop accepts both regular papers (up to sixteen pages excluding references) and extended abstracts (up to three pages excluding references). Both categories of papers will be fully refereed and need short abstracts submitted by the "Abstract submission" deadline. Accepted submissions in both categories will be included in the final workshop proceedings, although speaking slots will be shorter for extended abstracts. At least one author of each accepted submission must register for the workshop and give a presentation summarizing the paper's results. The presentation of the paper by the author may be done in-person or online.
Extended abstracts should contain at least one or two references so someone can pursue the abstract topic. Like regulare papers, extended abstracts must describe work that has already been done -- it is not for ideas for future work. To discuss future work, we will have a rump session, and we will later appeal for those topics.
One of the main advantages of the ACL2 Workshop is that attendees are already knowledgeable about ACL2, its syntax, its basic commands, and the art of writing models in it. So authors may assume that readers have this familiarity. The workshop proceedings will be published as a volume of Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). Regular papers will be published as PDFs, and extended abstracts will be published as HTML snippets. Please see the EPTCS copyright page for a discussion of licensing. Please also see the EPTCS LaTeX style file and formatting instructions.
Many papers presented at the workshop will describe interactions with the theorem prover.
Authors of such papers are required to provide ACL2 script files
(typically, ACL2
books) along with instructions for their use with ACL2, unless they provide a small text
file explaining why supporting materials are not appropriate (e.g., for a theory paper). Such
supporting materials should have proper licenses and copyrights (feel free to email the workshop
chairs if you have questions about that). The books should be certifiable either with custom
instructions that are clearly provided, or by running the following shell command in the directory
of your contributed books, where ACL2_DIR denotes your ACL2 sources directory
and ACL2 denotes a recent ACL2 executable.
ACL2_DIR/books/build/cert.pl --acl2 ACL2 *.lisp
Send the supporting materials or (as discussed above) a small explanatory text file to either Rob
Sumners rob.sumners@intel.com or Cuong
Chau cuong.chau@arm.com.
For accepted papers, we will require authors to make these books available by adding them to the ACL2 Community Books. (The chairs may assist in that process, if asked.)
The workshop will also feature rump sessions, in which participants can describe ongoing research related to ACL2. Proposals for rump session presentations, including a title and short abstract, should be sent to the chairs. These proposals may be accepted until the workshop, but preference will be given to early submissions and subject to available time.
Feel free to email the program chairs if you have questions.
The workshop will take place on the campus of the University of Texas in the Gates Dell Complex (GDC), North Wing, Room 6.302 (Faculty Lounge), which is located south of 24th Street on Speedway. Visitor parking is available in the parking garages, of which the San Jacinto Garage is closest to GDC.
In addition, the workshop will be held online. Details of the online participation will be forthcoming.
Here are some possibilities. Note that no block of rooms is being reserved.
Register for ACL2-2022 at the following website:
Registration fees are as follows.
NOTE: an Extra Outdoor Banquet Ticket at 40$ can be purchased along with registration.
Follow this link to the program, which has information on the schedule of talks and workshop location. Note that the schedule of talks may change.
Proceedings for the workshop are available on the EPTCS website.
You can also view the supporting materials for the workshop papers in
the ACL2 github repo. The supporting materials will be in
the books/workshops/2022
directory unless otherwise specified. Please see the
README file in
the workshop books directory for further information on locating supporting materials per paper.