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Call for Research Ideas 14th Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2014 Workshop http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014 24-26th September, 2014 University of Twente, Netherlands ********************************************************************** Call for Research Ideas (deadline August 11th, notification August 14th) The aim of Automated Verification of Critical Systems (AVoCS) 2014 is to contribute to the interaction and exchange of ideas among members of the international research community on tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems. The subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which need to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc.). Contributions that describe different techniques, or industrial case studies are encouraged. The technical programme will consist of invited and contributed talks and also allow for short presentations of research ideas (this call). The workshop will be relatively informal, with an emphasis on discussion. AVoCS topics include (but are not limited to) Model Checking Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification Abstract Interpretation Specification and Refinement Requirements Capture and Analysis Verification of Software and Hardware Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems Dependable Systems Verified System Development Industrial Applications Thanks to Formal Methods Europe (http://www.fmeurope.org/), we offer a financial support for students registering for AVoCS in the form of a registration fee waiver (full or partial). Because our financial support is limited, we ask the students that would like to take the advantage of this support to submit a short application. The details on how to apply can be found on the AVoCS 2014 webpage (http://www.utwente.nl/avocs2014). AVoCS 2014 is co-organised and co-located with SPES_XT Summer School on Model-based design and analysis of cyber-physical systems: http://spes2020.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/summerschool2014.html A registration reduction is going to be offered for participants attending both events. The workshop will have three invited speakers: Laura Kovacs (Chalmers, Sweden) will speak about automated assertion generation. Alastair Donaldson (Imperial College, U.K.) will speak about verification of OpenCL kernels. Guy Broadfoot (U.K.) will speak about fighting the battle to get industry to adopt formal based tools. Important Dates Submission of research ideas: 11th August 2014 Notification: 14th August 2014 Student grant application: 14th August 2014 Early registration: 1st September 2014 Workshop: 24-26th September 2014 (2.5 days, ends 26th lunchtime) Submission Details AVoCS'14 encourages the submissions of research ideas in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop. Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are welcome. The Programme Committee will select research ideas on the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general interest. Research ideas must be written in English and not exceed 2 pages. The AVoCS 2014 Submission Site is available through EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2014 Conference Proceedings At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a University of Twente Technical Report; this report will also include the research ideas. However, research ideas *will not* be part of the AVoCS proceedings in the EASST Open Access Journal. Program Committee John Derrick, University of Sheffield, U.K. Mike Dodds, University of York, U.K. Wan Fokkink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, U.K. Jan Friso Groote, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands Anne Haxthausen, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Keijo Heljanko, Aalto University, Finland Marieke Huisman, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair) Temesghen Kahsai, NASA Ames Research Center, U.S.A. Gerald Luettgen, University of Bamberg, Germany Radu Mateescu, INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, France Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, U.K. Marco Roveri, FBK-irst, Italy Thomas Santen, Microsoft Research, Germany Bernard Steffen, Technical University Dortmund, Germany Jan Strejcek, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Jun Sun, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Tayssir Touili, LIAFA, CNRS & University Paris Diderot, France Helen Treharne, University of Surrey, U.K. Jaco van de Pol, University of Twente, Netherlands (co-chair) Laurent Voisin, Systerel, France Kirsten Winter, University of Queensland, Australia Steering Committee Michael Goldsmith, University of Oxford, U.K. Stephan Merz, INRIA Nancy & LORIA, France Markus Roggenbach, Swansea University, U.K. Organization Committee Marieke Huisman Wojciech Mostowski (publicity chair) Jaco van de Pol -- Wojciech Mostowski University of Twente Formal Methods and Tools, EWI EWI-FMT, P.O. 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