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SBMF2026: 29th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1-4, 2026

Conference web page	https://sbmf2026.github.io
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbmf2026
Abstract registration deadline	July 31, 2026
Submission deadline	August 7, 2026

Topics: formal methods verification validation semantics

CALL FOR PAPERS : 29th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods

SBMF 2026: 29th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 1-4, 2026

Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)

Conference website: https://sbmf2026.github.io/

Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sbmf2026

Dates:

Paper registration deadline: July 31, 2026
Paper submission deadline: August 07, 2026
Acceptance notification: September 25, 2026
Camera-ready: October 23, 2026

About SBMF

SBMF 2026 is the twenty-ninth of a series of events devoted to the development, dissemination, and use of formal methods for the construction of high-quality computational systems. It is now a well-established event with an international reputation. It regularly receives submissions and participants from all over the world.

Submission Guidelines

We invite submissions of papers with a strong emphasis on formal methods, whether practical or theoretical, in the following categories:

Regular papers (limit of 15 pages). Proofs of theoretical results that do not fit the page limit may be provided in an appendix.
Short papers (limit of 8 pages). Short papers include system descriptions, user experiences, and case studies. We encourage authors to make the data needed to reproduce their experiments available.

The page limits exclude references and appendices.

Contributions should not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. They should be written in English and prepared using Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format. Springer’s proceedings LaTeX templates are available in Overleaf. More information is available at the following link: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Papers should present unpublished and original work that has a clear contribution to the state-of-the-art on the theory and practice of formal methods. Papers will be judged by at least three reviewers based on originality, relevance, technical soundness, and presentation quality and should contain sound theoretical or practical results. Industry papers should emphasize the practical application of formal methods or report on open challenges.

Submissions should be made via the following link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=sbmf2026

Scope and Topics

SBMF aims to provide a venue for the presentation and discussion of high-quality work in formal methods. The topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Applications of formal methods to
- Software and/or hardware design
- Software and/or hardware development
- Software and/or hardware code generation
- Software and/or hardware testing
- Software maintenance, evolution and/or reuse
- Intelligent systems
Specification and modelling languages
- Logic and semantics for specification and/or programming languages
- Formal methods for timed, real-time, hybrid, or/and safety-critical systems
- Formal methods for service-oriented, cloud-based, or/and cyber-physical systems
Theoretical foundations
- Domain theory
- Term rewriting
- Computational models
- Type systems and category systems
- Computation complexity of methods and models
- Models of time, concurrency, security and/or mobility
Verification and validation
- Abstraction, modularization and/or refinement techniques
- Static analysis
- Model checking
- Theorem proving
- Software certification
- Correctness by construction
Experience reports
- Reports on teaching formal methods
- Reports on the industrial application of formal methods

Committees

General Chair

Edward Haeusler(PUC-Rio)

Program Chairs

Genaína Nunes Rodrigues (University of Brasilia, Brazil)
Pedro Ribeiro (University of York, UK)

Steering Committee

Ciprian Teodorov (ENSTA Bretagne, France)
Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Sidney Nogueira (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Leopoldo Teixeira (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Maurice ter Beek (CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Yoni Zohar (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Program Committee

Jefferson O. Andrade (Instituto Federal do Espírito Santo, Brazil)
Haniel Barbosa (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil)
Luís Soares Barbosa (Universidade do Minho; INESC TEC; UNU-EGOV, Portugal)
Davide Basile (Formal Methods & Tools; ISTI-CNR, Italy)
Armin Biere (University of Freiburg, Germany)
Silvia Bonfanti (University of Bergamo, Italy)
Gustavo Carvalho (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Valentina Castiglioni (Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands)
Márcio Cornélio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Chelsea Edmonds (University of Western Australia, Australia)
Katalin Fazekas (TU Wien, Austria)
Ahmed Irfan (SRI International, USA)
Juliano Iyoda (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
Thierry Lecomte (CLEARSY, France)
Livia Lestingi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
Michael Leuschel (University of Düsseldorf, Germany)
Nianyu Li (ZGC National Laboratory, China)
Lucas Lima (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Carlos Luna (Facultad de Ingeniería, Udelar, Uruguay)
Claudio Mandrioli (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
Alexandra Mendes (University of Porto, Portugal)
Alvaro Miyazawa (University of York, United Kingdom)
Vince Molnár (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
Rosemary Monahan (National University of Ireland, Ireland)
Alexandre Mota (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Sidney Nogueira (Universidade Federal Rural de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Marcel Oliveira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil)
Luigia Petre (Åbo Akademi University, Finland)
Luciana Rebelo (Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy)
Philipp Rümmer (University of Regensburg; Uppsala University, Germany/Sweden)
Augusto Sampaio (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil)
Hans-Jörg Schurr (The University of Iowa, USA)
Maike Schwammberger (KIT, Germany)
Paola Spoletini (Kennesaw State University, USA)
Volker Stolz (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Ciprian Teodorov (Ensta Bretagne - Lab-STICC MOCS, France)
Nils Timm (University of Pretoria, South Africa)
Jim Woodcock (University of York, United Kingdom)
Yoni Zohar (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Publication

Accepted papers will be published, after the conference, in a volume of LNCS. The authors will be requested to complete and sign a consent-to publish form. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered in the symposium by the time the camera-ready copy is submitted. The registered author is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper.

A special issue of the Science of Computer Programming Journal (Elsevier) is going to be organised (to be confirmed) with selected and extended papers from the 29th Brazilian Symposium on Formal Methods (SBMF 2026).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organisers.

Genaína Rodrigues and Pedro Ribeiro

Program Chairs, SBMF 2026