[TYPES/announce] SPIN 2008: Final Call for Papers

[Rupak Majumdar]

The paper submission deadline is April 2, 2008.
The CfP below contains information about invited talks at SPIN.
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                  Final Call for Papers: SPIN 2008

   15th Int. SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software
                         August 10-12, 2008
                     University of California


                       Los Angeles, USA

                http://compilers.cs.ucla.edu/spin08
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   Aim and Scope:

   The SPIN workshop is a forum for practitioners and researchers
   interested in state space-based techniques for the validation and
   analysis of software systems. Theoretical techniques and empirical
   evaluations based on explicit representations of state spaces, as
   implemented in the SPIN model checker or other tools, or techniques
   based on combination of explicit representations with other
   representations, are the focus of this workshop.

   We particularly welcome papers describing the development and
   application of state space exploration techniques in testing and
   verifying security-critical software, enterprise and web applications,
   embedded software, and other interesting software platforms. The
   workshop aims to encourage interactions and exchanges of ideas with all
   related areas in software engineering.


   Invited speakers:

   - Matthew Dwyer (Nebraska): Residual Checking of Safety Properties: prove what you can and monitor the leftovers
   - Daniel Jackson (MIT): Patterns of Software Modelling: From Classic To Funky
   - Shaz Qadeer (Microsoft Research): Context-bounded verification of concurrent software
   - Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft Research): Using dynamic symbolic execution to improve deductive verification
   - Yannis Smaragdakis (Oregon): Combining Static and Dynamic Reasoning for the Discovery of Program Properties


   Important Dates and Deadlines:

   Deadline for submission of full papers: April 2, 2008
   Notification of acceptance/rejection: May 10, 2008.
   Deadline for final version of accepted papers: May 28, 2008.
   Workshop: August 10-12, 2008.


   Topics of Interest:

   - Algorithms and storage methods for explicit state model checking
   - Directed model checking using heuristics
   - Parallel or distributed model checking using multi-core or
multiple computers
   - Techniques for dealing with infinite state spaces
   - Model checking of timed and probabilistic systems
   - Abstraction and the use of static analysis to reduce state spaces
   - Combinations of enumerative and symbolic techniques
   - Analysis for modeling languages, including SE languages (UML,...)
   - New property specification languages, including new forms of temporal logic
   - Model checking of programming languages and code analysis
   - Automated testing using model checking techniques
   - Derivation of invariants, test cases, or other useful information
   from state spaces
   - Combination of model-checking techniques with other analysis techniques
   - Modularity and compositionality
   - Comparative studies, including to other model checking techniques
   - Case studies of interesting systems or with interesting results
   - Theoretical and algorithmic foundations of model-checking based analysis
   - Engineering and implementation of model-checking tools and platforms
   - Insightful surveys or historical accounts on topics of relevance to
   SPIN workshops


   Solicited Contributions:

   With the exception of survey and history papers, the papers should
   contain original work which has not been submitted or accepted for
   publication elsewhere. Submissions should adhere to the LNCS format. We
   solicit two kinds of papers:

   1. Technical Papers.  No longer than 18 pages in LNCS format. All
   accepted technical papers will be included in the proceedings.

   2. Tool Presentations. This kind of submissions should consist of two
   parts. The first part is at most 5 page description of the tool. If
   accepted, this part will be published in the workshop proceedings. The
   second part should describe an informal plan for an oral presentation of
   the tool. This part will not be included in the proceedings.

   The proceedings of SPIN usually appear in Springer's Lecture Notes in
   Computer Science series. We expect to continue this tradition for
   the 2008 edition.


   Organization:

   General Chair:

   Jens Palsberg (UC Los Angeles, USA)


   Programme Chairs:

   Klaus Havelund (NASA JPL/Caltech., USA)
   Rupak Majumdar (UC Los Angeles, USA)


   Programme Committee:

   Christel Baier  (Bonn, Germany)
   Dragan Bosnacki (Eindhoven, Netherlands)
   Lubos Brim (Brno, Czech)
   Stefan Edelkamp (Dortmund, Germany)
   Dawson Engler (Stanford, USA)
   Kousha Etessami (Edinburgh, UK)
   Susanne Graf (Verimag, France)
   John Hatcliff (Kansas State Univ., USA)
   Gerard Holzmann (NASA JPL, USA)
   Franjo Ivancic (NEC, USA)
   Sarfraz Khurshid (UT Austin, USA)
   Kim Larsen (Aalborg, Denmark)
   Madan Musuvathi (Microsoft, USA)
   Joel Ouaknine (Oxford, UK)
   Corina Pasareanu (NASA Ames, USA)
   Doron Peled (Warwick, UK)
   Paul Pettersson (Malardalen, Sweden)
   Koushik Sen (Berkeley, USA)
   Natasha Sharygina (Lugano, Switzerland)
   Eran Yahav (IBM, USA)