[TYPES/announce] Extended Deadline: 4th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV 09)

[Gerwin Klein]

                   4th International Workshop on

               Systems Software Verification (SSV 09)
            Real Software, Real Problems, Real Solutions

                June 22-24 2009, Aachen, Germany

            http://www.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/ssv09/

Industrial-strength software analysis and verification has advanced in
recent years through the introduction of model checking, automated and
interactive theorem proving, and static analysis techniques as well as
correctness by design, correctness by contract, and model-driven
development. However, many techniques are working under restrictive
assumptions which are invalidated by complex (embedded) system
software such as operating system kernels, low-level device drivers or
microcontroller code.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
developers from both academia and industry, who are facing real
software and real problems to find real, applicable solutions. By
"real" we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the
industry is facing and is trying to fix in software that is deployed
in the market place. A real solution is one that is applicable to the
problem in industry and not one that only applies to an abstract,
academic toy version of it. This forum will discuss software
analysis/development techniques and tools; it will also serve as a
platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in dealing
with existing and upcoming systems level code.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

     * model checking
     * automated and interactive theorem proving
     * static analysis
     * automated testing
     * model-driven development
     * embedded systems development
     * programming languages
     * verifying compilers
     * software certification
     * software tools
     * experience reports

Interested speakers should submit their paper (max 15 pages, ENTCS
style) to http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv09 by Feb 15 2009,
23:59h Samoan time. All papers will be subject to peer review under normal
conference standards. Experience reports and papers on work in
progress are welcome as long as there is a clear contribution.
Accepted submissions are planned to be published in ENTCS. Submissions
must be in pdf format and follow the ENTCS style instructions at
http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html.

Important dates
Feb 15 2009    Extended submission deadline
Apr 06 2009    Notification of accepted papers
May 06 2009    Final version
May 06 2009    Registration deadline (early)
Jun 06 2009    Registration deadline (normal)
Jun 22-24 2009 Workshop

The workshop is organized as a three-day workshop (Jun 22-24 2009).

Location
The workshop will be held in Aachen, Germany on the campus of the
RWTH Aachen University.

Program Chair
Ralf Huuck (NICTA, Australia)
Gerwin Klein (NICTA, Australia)
Bastian Schlich (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Program Committee
June Andronick (NICTA, Australia)
Kai Baukus (BMW Car IT, Germany)
Cristina Cifuentes (Sun Microsystems Labs, Australia)
Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
John Matthews (Galois Inc., USA)
Michael McDougall (Grammatech, USA)
Thomas Noll (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Wolfgang Paul (University of Saarbruecken, Germany)
Jan Peleska (University of Bremen, Germany)
John Regehr (University of Utah, USA)
Wolfgang Reif (University of Augsburg, Germany)
Wolfram Schulte (Microsoft Research, USA)
Zhong Shao (Yale University, USA)
Hendrik Tews (University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Chao Wang (NEC Laboratories America, USA)
Carsten Weise (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

We thank the European Microsoft Innovation Center (EMIC) for their sponsorship
http://www.microsoft.com/EMIC