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Call For Papers

The ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has gathered scientists from different areas of computing for over thirty years. The forum gives participants an opportunity to interact with different communities sharing an interest in applied computing.

The 40th ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC 2025) is sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP), and will take place on March 31 - April 4, 2025, at the University of Catania, Sicily.

The Software Verification and Testing track aims to contribute to the challenge of improving the usability of formal methods in software engineering. The track covers areas such as formal methods for verification and testing, based on theorem proving, model checking, static analysis, and run-time verification. We invite authors to submit new results in formal verification and testing, as well as development of technologies to improve the usability of formal methods in software engineering. We also welcome detailed descriptions of applications of mechanical verification to large scale software.

Possible topics include, but are not limited to:

• model checking
• theorem proving
• correct by construction development
• model-based testing
• software testing
• symbolic execution
• static and dynamic analysis
• abstract interpretation
• analysis methods for dependable systems
• software certification and proof carrying code
• fault diagnosis and debugging
• verification and validation of large scale software systems
• real world applications and case studies applying software testing and verification
• benchmarks and data sets for software testing and verification

Submission Guidelines

Paper submissions must report on original, unpublished work. Submitted papers will undergo a double-blind review process. Author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the body of the paper, and self-reference should be avoided and made in the third person. We welcome research papers and posters. Research papers should have at most 8 two-column pages in ACM format (further two pages, to a total of 10 pages, may be available at a charge). The length of a poster is limited to 2 pages (one extra page may be available at a charge). Please comply to this page limit already at submission time.

Furthermore, in the context of the Student Research Competition (SRC) program to provide graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest, graduate students are invited to submit research abstracts (single author, maximum of 3 pages in ACM camera-ready format) following the instructions published at the SAC 2025 website. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM SAC 2025 proceedings in the ACM digital library. Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper. This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM digital library. No-show of registered papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM digital library.

Author kit with formatting guidelines for all submission types: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2025/authorkit.php

The submission system for regular papers: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sac-2025

The submission system for SRC (Student Research Competition) abstracts: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sacsrc-2025

Important Dates

Paper and SRC abstract submission: 20 September 2024
Notification: 30 October 2024
Camera-ready: 29 November 2024
Author registration: 6 December 2024

Track Chairs

Justyna Petke, University College London, United Kingdom
Anton Wijs, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands

Program Committee

• Alexander Weigl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• Angelo Gargantini, University of Bergamo
• Antoine Rollet, LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, University of Bordeaux, CNRS
• Catherine Dubois, ENSIIE-Samovar
• Christian Colombo, University of Malta
• David Šafránek, Masaryk University
• Eduard Kamburjan, University of Oslo
• Ernst Moritz Hahn, University of Twente
• Ferhat Khendek, Concordia University
• Frédéric Loulergue, Univ. Orléans, INSA CVL, LIFO EA 4022
• Georgiana Caltais, University of Twente
• Gwen Salaün, University of Grenoble Alpes
• Joao Faria, INESC TEC
• Julien Signoles, CEA LIST
• Jun Pang, University of Luxembourg
• Klaus Havelund, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen
• Marcello Bonsangue, Leiden University
• Marcus Gerhold, University of Twente
• María del Mar Gallardo, University of Málaga
• Mark Utting, The University of Queensland
• Martin Leucker, University of Luebeck
• Matthias Güdemann, UAS Munich
• Maurizio Leotta, Università di Genova
• Mercedes Merayo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
• Michele Chiari, TU Wien
• Narges Khakpour, Newcastle University
• Nikolai Kosmatov, Thales Research & Technology
• Pascale Le Gall, CentraleSupelec
• Paula Herber, University of Münster
• Peter Lammich, University of Twente
• Peter Ölveczky, University of Oslo
• Sylvain Hallé, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
• Thierry Jéron, INRIA
• Tom van Dijk, University of Twente
• Vincenzo Ciancia, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell’Informazione “A. Faedo”, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy
• Violet Ka I Pun, Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
• Xupeng Li, Columbia University

Previous Editions

The SVT track has been held annually at SAC since 2009. Links to the previous editions can be found on the following website: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/.