HVC 2016 invites the submission of technical papers reporting original research and experience results in all sub-fields of testing and verification applicable to software and hardware. The conference will involve the presentation of peer-reviewed, original technical papers, as well as lectures by guests from industry and academia.

The conference proceedings will be published in Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series (LNCS), and handed out in digital format to registered guests of the conference.

Topics of interest to the conference include, but are not limited to:

    Simulation-based verification
    Formal and semi-formal specification, modeling, and verification
    Functional and non-functional software testing
    Software and hardware equivalence checking
    SAT/SMT-based verification algorithms
    Static analysis
    Model checking
    High-level stimuli generation
    Hardware/software co-verification
    Triage and debug technologies
    Post-silicon validation including emulation and acceleration
    Coverage analysis and test minimization
    Testing of mobile and cloud applications
    Software artifacts review and inspection
    Test planning
    Empirical studies on hardware and software quality
    Security verification
    Machine learning techniques for verification

Student grants

We anticipate a number of student grants to cover part of the travel expenses for full-time students who are authors of accepted papers. Precedence in allocation of these travel grants will be to students who are also presenting a poster at the conference.