[TYPES/announce] CFP: SVV2006

[Zijiang (James) Yang]

SVV'06: 4th Workshop on Software Verification and Validation
August 21, 2006, Seattle, USA
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~abhik/svv06/
In Conjunction with
Federated Logic Conferences (FLoC) 2006         

EXTENDED PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 12, 2006



Goal of the Workshop
====================

Software is playing an important role in economy, government, and military.
Since software is often deployed in safety critical applications, 
correctness
and reliability have become issues of utmost importance. Techniques for
verification and validation traditionally fall into three main categories.
The first category involves informal methods such as software testing and
monitoring. The second involves formal verification, i.e., model 
checking and
theorem proving. The third is abstract interpretation and static program
analysis techniques.

The goal of this workshop is to promote discussion on novel combinations
of these methodologies, as well as study the individual contribution of 
each
of these methodologies in verifying software. An example of a combined
verification methodology is the recent research direction that combines
abstraction (of infinite-state programs into finite-state ones) with model
checking (of finite-state systems).  There is a growing conviction in the
research community that such hybrid methodologies are imperative for the
process of  analyzing full-fledged software systems. This workshop will 
study
combination of analysis methodologies for verification of software.  This
research is very important and timely since

    . Software is being increasingly used to control embedded systems which
      are often safety critical (such as automobile parts).
    . There is renewed promise in program verification in the recent years
      due to (a) progress in generating models from code, and
      (b)  combination of model checking with other analysis techniques 
such
      as abstract interpretation.


Topics Covered
==============

The workshop will focus on theoretical techniques, practical methods as 
well
as  case studies for verification of  conventional and embedded software
systems. In particular, we welcome papers which describe combinations of
formal and informal reasoning, as well as formal verification and program
analysis techniques. Tool papers and case studies, which report on  
advances
in verifying large scale programs in standard languages are particularly
sought. The list of topics include, but are not restricted to:

    . Tools, environments and case studies for large scale software
      verification
    . Static analysis/Abstract interpretation/Program transformations
      for verification
    . Use of model checking and deductive techniques for software 
verification
    . Role of declarative programming languages (such as Prolog) for 
infinite
      state software verification.
    . Techniques to validate system software (such as compilers) as well as
      assembly code/Java bytecode
    . Proof techniques for verifying specific classes of software (such as
      object-oriented programs)
    . Integrating testing and run-time monitoring with formal techniques
    . Validation of UML diagrams, and/or  requirement specifications
    . Software certification and proof carrying code
    . Integration of formal verification into software development projects


Submissions Information
=======================

    . Regular submissions should be no more than 15 pages. Short papers 
(upto
      5 pages) describing initial ideas are also welcome. All submitted 
papers
      should be in PS or PDF. Please avoid using zip, gzip, compress, 
tar etc.

    . Proceedings of the workshop will be published by Computing Research
      Repository (CoRR).

    . The deadlines are as follows.
          . Submission deadline:  May 12, 2006
          . Notification of Acceptance:  June 16, 2006
          . Final Version submission:  June 26, 2006

Program Committee
==================

    . Rajeev Alur, Univ. of Penn. (USA)
    . Tevfik Bultan, Univ. of California Santa Barbara (USA)
    . Sagar Chaki, Software Engg Institute CMU (USA)
    . Maurizio Gabbrielli, Univ. of Bologna (Italy)
    . Aarti Gupta, NEC Labs (USA)
    . Gopal Gupta, Univ of Texas Dallas (USA)
    . Shengchao Qin, Univ. of Durham (UK)
    . C.R. Ramakrishnan, Univ. of Stony Brook (USA)
    . R.E. Kurt Stirewalt, Michigan State Univ. (USA)


Invited Speakers
================

    . Byron Cook, Microsoft Research

Organizers
==========

    . Abhik Roychoudhury, National University of Singapore, Singapore.
      Email: abhik at comp.nus.edu.sg
    . Zijiang Yang, Western Michigan University, USA.
      Email: zijiang.yang at wmich.edu

If you have any queries about the workshop, please send e-mail to either 
of us