Historically, formal methods academic research and practical software development have had limited mutual interactions — except possibly in specialized domains such as safety-critical software. In recent times, the outlook has considerably improved: on the one hand, formal methods research has delivered more flexible techniques and tools that can support various aspects of the software development process — from user requirements elicitation, to design, implementation, verification and validation, as well as the creation of documentation. On the other hand, software engineering has developed a growing interest in rigorous techniques applied at scale.

The FormaliSE conference series promotes work at the intersection of the formal methods and software engineering communities, providing a venue to exchange ideas, experiences, techniques, and results. We believe more collaboration between these two communities can be mutually beneficial by fostering the creation of formal methods that are practically useful and by helping develop higher-quality software.

Originally a workshop event, since 2018 FormaliSE has been organized as a conference co-located with ICSE. The 13th edition of FormaliSE will also take place as a co-located conference of ICSE 2025.

Area of interest include:

    requirements formalization and formal specification;
    approaches, methods and tools for verification and validation;
    formal approaches to safety and security related issues;
    analysis of performance and other non-functional properties based on formal approaches;
    scalability of formal method applications
    integration of formal methods within the software development lifecycle (e.g., change -management, continuous integration, regression testing, and deployment)
    model-based engineering approaches;
    correctness-by-construction approaches for software and systems engineering;
    application of formal methods to specific domains, e.g., autonomous, cyber-physical, intelligent, and IoT systems;
    formal methods for AI-based systems (FM4AI), and AI applied in formal method approaches (AI4FM);
    formal methods in a certification context
    case studies developed/analyzed with formal approaches
    experience reports on the application of formal methods to real-world problems;
    guidelines to use formal methods in practice;
    usability of formal methods.