[Haskell] SCP Special Issue on Invariant Generation - Final Call for Papers [1 month to go]
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) Science of Computer Programming Special Issue on Invariant Generation -- FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS [1 month to go] -- This special issue is devoted to the 4th international Workshop on Invariant Generation (WING 2012) http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ which was held on June 30 2012 in Manchester as a satellite event of IJCAR 2012. The scope of the workshop is the automation of extracting and synthesising auxiliary properties of programs, in particular providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. This should be seen in a broad sense and relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive assertion generation * Inductive proofs for reasoning about loops * Applications to assertion generation using: - abstract interpretation, - static analysis, - model checking, - theorem proving, - theory formation, - algebraic techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Submission to this special issue is completely open. We expect original articles (typically not more than 30 pages) that present high-quality contributions and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission of extended versions of previously published papers is possible as long as the extension is significant, i.e., the submission can be considered a new paper, the previous paper is referenced, and the new material is clearly marked. Submissions must comply with SCP's author guidelines http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505623/authorinstructions and be written in English. Submission is over the SCP website: http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp which you will have to register for if you do not have an account. When submitting your paper please choose the article type Special issue: WING 2012. IMPORTANT DATES --- * Submission of papers: February 11, 2013. * Notification: April 26, 2013. GUEST EDITORS -- * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) CONTACT -- Please send any queries you may have to: wing2...@easychair.org - Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2011-2013 Top in the UK for student experience Fourth university in the UK and top in Scotland (National Student Survey 2012) We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] SCP Special Issue on Invariant Generation - Second Call for Papers [2 months to go]
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) Science of Computer Programming Special Issue on Invariant Generation -- SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS -- This special issue is devoted to the 4th international Workshop on Invariant Generation (WING 2012) http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ which was held on June 30 2012 in Manchester as a satellite event of IJCAR 2012. The scope of the workshop is the automation of extracting and synthesising auxiliary properties of programs, in particular providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. This should be seen in a broad sense and relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive assertion generation * Inductive proofs for reasoning about loops * Applications to assertion generation using: - abstract interpretation, - static analysis, - model checking, - theorem proving, - theory formation, - algebraic techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Submission to this special issue is completely open. We expect original articles (typically not more than 30 pages) that present high-quality contributions and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission of extended versions of previously published papers is possible as long as the extension is significant, i.e., the submission can be considered a new paper, the previous paper is referenced, and the new material is clearly marked. Submissions must comply with SCP's author guidelines http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505623/authorinstructions and be written in English. Submission is over the SCP website: http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp which you will have to register for if you do not have an account. When submitting your paper please choose the article type Special issue: WING 2012. IMPORTANT DATES --- * Submission of papers: February 11, 2013. * Notification: April 26, 2013. GUEST EDITORS -- * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) CONTACT -- Please send any queries you may have to: wing2...@easychair.org - Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2011-2013 Top in the UK for student experience Fourth university in the UK and top in Scotland (National Student Survey 2012) We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] SCP Special Issue on Invariant Generation - Call for Papers
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) Science of Computer Programming Special Issue on Invariant Generation -- CALL FOR PAPERS -- This special issue is devoted to the 4th international Workshop on Invariant Generation (WING 2012) http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ which was held on June 30 2012 in Manchester as a satellite event of IJCAR 2012. The scope of the workshop is the automation of extracting and synthesising auxiliary properties of programs, in particular providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. This should be seen in a broad sense and relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive assertion generation * Inductive proofs for reasoning about loops * Applications to assertion generation using: - abstract interpretation, - static analysis, - model checking, - theorem proving, - theory formation, - algebraic techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Submission to this special issue is completely open. We expect original articles (typically not more than 30 pages) that present high-quality contributions and must not be simultaneously submitted for publication elsewhere. Submission of extended versions of previously published papers is possible as long as the extension is significant, i.e., the submission can be considered a new paper, the previous paper is referenced, and the new material is clearly marked. Submissions must comply with SCP's author guidelines http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505623/authorinstructions and be written in English. Submission is over the SCP website: http://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp which you will have to register for if you do not have an account. When submitting your paper please choose the article type Special issue: WING 2012. IMPORTANT DATES --- * Submission of papers: February 11, 2013. * Notification: April 26, 2013. GUEST EDITORS -- * Gudmund Grov (Heriot-Watt University, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) CONTACT -- Please send any queries you may have to: wing2...@easychair.org - Sunday Times Scottish University of the Year 2011-2013 Top in the UK for student experience Fourth university in the UK and top in Scotland (National Student Survey 2012) We invite research leaders and ambitious early career researchers to join us in leading and driving research in key inter-disciplinary themes. Please see www.hw.ac.uk/researchleaders for further information and how to apply. Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] WING 2012: Call for Presentations
[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] WING 2012 - 4th International Workshop on INvariant Generation http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ June 30, 2012 Manchester, UK (a satellite Workshop of IJCAR 2012) --- Call for Presentations --- General --- The ability to automatically extract and synthesize auxiliary properties of programs has had a profound effect on program analysis, testing, and verification over the last several decades. A key impediment for program verification is the overhead associated with providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. This workshop aims to bring together researchers from the diverse field of invariant generation to discuss recent developments. Scope - We encourage ONE-PAGE ABSTRACT submissions on work in progress, new ideas, tools under development, as well as work by PhD students, to be presented at WING 2012. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive Assertion Generation * Inductive Proofs for Reasoning about Loops * Applications to Assertion Generation using the following tools: - Abstract Interpretation, - Static Analysis, - Model Checking, - Theorem Proving, - Theory Formation, - Algebraic Techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Submission -- Submissions need not be original. Extended versions of submissions may have been published previously, or submitted concurrently with or after WING 2012 to another workshop, conference or a journal. Submission is by email to: wing2...@easychair.org Please submit a ONE-PAGE abstract in PDF. Important Dates --- Submission deadline: May 15, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 18, 2012 Workshop: June 30, 2012 Invited Speakers * Aditya Nori (Microsoft Research) Committee - Program Chairs: * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Program Committee: * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ashutosh Gupta (IST Austria) * Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) * Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * David Monniaux (VERIMAG, France) * Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) * Helmut Veith (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Student Support Students will pay a reduced fee, and the difference will be reimbursed after the workshop. Publication --- Extended versions of accepted contributions may be submitted later to a special issue of the Journal of Science of Computer Programming. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] WING 2012: Final Call for Papers -- Extended Deadline
[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] *** Submission deadline extended to April 13, 2012 *** WING 2012 - 4th International Workshop on INvariant Generation http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ June 30, 2012 Manchester, UK (a satellite Workshop of IJCAR 2012) --- Final Call for Papers --- General --- The ability to automatically extract and synthesize auxiliary properties of programs has had a profound effect on program analysis, testing, and verification over the last several decades. A key impediment for program verification is the overhead associated with providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. Releasing the software developer from this burden is crucial for ensuring the practical relevance of program verification. In the context of testing, suitable invariants have the potential of enabling high-coverage test-case generation. Thus, invariant generation is a key ingredient in a broad spectrum of tools that help to improve program reliability and understanding. As the design and implementation of reliable software remains an important issue, any progress in this area will have a significant impact. The increasing power of automated theorem proving and computer algebra has opened new perspectives for computer-aided program verification; in particular for the automatic generation of inductive assertions in order to reason about loops and recursion. Especially promising breakthroughs are invariant generation techniques by Groebner bases, quantifier elimination, and algorithmic combinatorics, which can be used in conjunction with model checking, theorem proving, static analysis, and abstract interpretation. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these diverse fields. Scope - We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, as well as work by PhD students, such that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in this new research area. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive Assertion Generation * Inductive Proofs for Reasoning about Loops * Applications to Assertion Generation using the following tools: - Abstract Interpretation, - Static Analysis, - Model Checking, - Theorem Proving, - Theory Formation, - Algebraic Techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Invited speaker - * Aditya Nori (Microsoft Research) Committee - Program Chairs: * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Program Committee: * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ashutosh Gupta (IST Austria) * Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) * Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * David Monniaux (VERIMAG, France) * Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) * Helmut Veith (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Important Dates --- Submission deadline: April 13, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 11, 2012 Final version due: June 08, 2012 Workshop: June 30, 2012 Submission -- WING 2012 encourages submissions in the following two categories: * Original papers: contain original research (simultaneous submissions are not allowed) and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. Given the informal style of the workshop, papers describing work in progress, with sufficient detail to assess the contribution, are also welcome. Original papers should not exceed 15 pages. * Extended abstracts: contain preliminary reports of work in progress, case studies, or tool descriptions. These will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the WING community. They will be included in the CEUR-WS proceedings. Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages. All submissions should conform to Springer's LNCS format. Formatting style files can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion and to be omitted in the final version. Please prepare your submission in accordance with the rules described above and submit a pdf file via https://www.easychair.org/?conf=wing2012 Publication --- All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted contributions will be published in archived electronic notes, as a volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. A special issue of the Journal of Science of Computer
[Haskell] WING 2012: Second Call for Papers -- 3 weeks to go
[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] WING 2012 - 4th International Workshop on INvariant Generation http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ June 30, 2012 Manchester, UK (a satellite Workshop of IJCAR 2012) --- Second Call for Papers : 3 weeks to go --- General --- The ability to automatically extract and synthesize auxiliary properties of programs has had a profound effect on program analysis, testing, and verification over the last several decades. A key impediment for program verification is the overhead associated with providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. Releasing the software developer from this burden is crucial for ensuring the practical relevance of program verification. In the context of testing, suitable invariants have the potential of enabling high-coverage test-case generation. Thus, invariant generation is a key ingredient in a broad spectrum of tools that help to improve program reliability and understanding. As the design and implementation of reliable software remains an important issue, any progress in this area will have a significant impact. The increasing power of automated theorem proving and computer algebra has opened new perspectives for computer-aided program verification; in particular for the automatic generation of inductive assertions in order to reason about loops and recursion. Especially promising breakthroughs are invariant generation techniques by Groebner bases, quantifier elimination, and algorithmic combinatorics, which can be used in conjunction with model checking, theorem proving, static analysis, and abstract interpretation. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these diverse fields. Scope - We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, as well as work by PhD students, such that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in this new research area. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive Assertion Generation * Inductive Proofs for Reasoning about Loops * Applications to Assertion Generation using the following tools: - Abstract Interpretation, - Static Analysis, - Model Checking, - Theorem Proving, - Theory Formation, - Algebraic Techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Invited speaker - * Aditya Nori (Microsoft Research) Committee - Program Chairs: * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Program Committee: * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ashutosh Gupta (IST Austria) * Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) * Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * David Monniaux (VERIMAG, France) * Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) * Helmut Veith (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Important Dates --- Submission deadline: April 06, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 04, 2012 Final version due: June 08, 2012 Workshop: June 30, 2012 Submission -- WING 2012 encourages submissions in the following two categories: * Original papers: contain original research (simultaneous submissions are not allowed) and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. Given the informal style of the workshop, papers describing work in progress, with sufficient detail to assess the contribution, are also welcome. Original papers should not exceed 15 pages. * Extended abstracts: contain preliminary reports of work in progress, case studies, or tool descriptions. These will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the WING community. They will be included in the CEUR-WS proceedings. Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages. All submissions should conform to Springer's LNCS format. Formatting style files can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion and to be omitted in the final version. Please prepare your submission in accordance with the rules described above and submit a pdf file via https://www.easychair.org/?conf=wing2012 Publication --- All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted contributions will be published in archived electronic notes, as a volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. A special issue of the Journal of Science of Computer Programming with extended versions of selected papers
[Haskell] WING 2012: First Call for Papers
[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] WING 2012 - 4th International Workshop on INvariant Generation http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ June 30, 2012 Manchester, UK (a satellite Workshop of IJCAR 2012) --- First Call for Papers --- General --- The ability to automatically extract and synthesize auxiliary properties of programs has had a profound effect on program analysis, testing, and verification over the last several decades. A key impediment for program verification is the overhead associated with providing, debugging, and verifying auxiliary invariant annotations. Releasing the software developer from this burden is crucial for ensuring the practical relevance of program verification. In the context of testing, suitable invariants have the potential of enabling high-coverage test-case generation. Thus, invariant generation is a key ingredient in a broad spectrum of tools that help to improve program reliability and understanding. As the design and implementation of reliable software remains an important issue, any progress in this area will have a significant impact. The increasing power of automated theorem proving and computer algebra has opened new perspectives for computer-aided program verification; in particular for the automatic generation of inductive assertions in order to reason about loops and recursion. Especially promising breakthroughs are invariant generation techniques by Groebner bases, quantifier elimination, and algorithmic combinatorics, which can be used in conjunction with model checking, theorem proving, static analysis, and abstract interpretation. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers from these diverse fields. Scope - We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, as well as work by PhD students, such that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in this new research area. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive Assertion Generation * Inductive Proofs for Reasoning about Loops * Applications to Assertion Generation using the following tools: - Abstract Interpretation, - Static Analysis, - Model Checking, - Theorem Proving, - Theory Formation, - Algebraic Techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Committee - Program Chairs: * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Program Committee: * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ashutosh Gupta (IST Austria) * Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) * Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * David Monniaux (VERIMAG, France) * Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) * Helmut Veith (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Important Dates --- Submission deadline: April 06, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 04, 2012 Final version due: June 08, 2012 Workshop: June 30, 2012 Submission -- WING 2012 encourages submissions in the following two categories: * Original papers: contain original research (simultaneous submissions are not allowed) and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. Given the informal style of the workshop, papers describing work in progress, with sufficient detail to assess the contribution, are also welcome. Original papers should not exceed 15 pages. * Extended abstracts: contain preliminary reports of work in progress, case studies, or tool descriptions. These will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the WING community. They will be included in the CEUR-WS proceedings. Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages. All submissions should conform to Springer's LNCS format. Formatting style files can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion and to be omitted in the final version. Please prepare your submission in accordance with the rules described above and submit a pdf file via https://www.easychair.org/?conf=wing2012 Publication --- All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted contributions will be published in archived electronic notes, as a volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. A special issue of the Journal of Science of Computer Programming with extended versions of selected papers will be published after the workshop. -- The University of Edinburgh
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012: Final Call for Participation
* *** Final Call for Participation *** VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ ** The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. An informal verification competition has been held and the winner will be announced during the conference. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University TUTORIALS Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research PROGRAM The full program is available at the conference web site: https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/program VENUE The conference is co-located with POPL and will be held at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia's historic district. For hotel rate details and booking please see the POPL webpage: http://www.cse.psu.edu/popl/12/ REGISTRATION Registration is handled by the POPL registration. For rates, please see http://www.cse.psu.edu/popl/12/ and for registration please follow this link: https://regmaster3.com/2012conf/POPL12/register.php Please note the very low registration fee for students! SPONSORS NSF Microsoft Research -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012: First Call for Participation
* *** First Call for Participation *** VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ ** The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. An informal verification competition has been held and the winner will be announced during the conference. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University TUTORIALS Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research PROGRAM The full program is available at the conference web site: https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/program VENUE The conference is co-located with POPL and will be held at the Sheraton Society Hill Hotel in Philadelphia's historic district. For hotel rate details and booking please see the POPL webpage: http://www.cse.psu.edu/popl/12/ REGISTRATION Registration is handled by the POPL registration. For rates, please see http://www.cse.psu.edu/popl/12/ and for registration please follow this link: https://regmaster3.com/2012conf/POPL12/register.php Note that early registration deadline is December 24, 2011. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012 Verification Competition: Change of Dates
***Note: due to a clash with SEFM 2011, *** *** we have moved the competition to November 8-10 *** VSTTE 2012 Verification Competition --- A software verification competition is organized on behalf of the VSTTE 2012 conference (https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012). The purposes of this competition are: to help promote approaches and tools, to provide new verification benchmarks, to stimulate further development of verification techniques, and to have fun. The contest takes place during 48 hours, on 8-10 November 2011, two months prior to the conference. Problems will be put on the website of the conference. Solutions must be sent by email to the competition organizers. Any programming language, specification language, and verification tool is allowed. Problems There will be several, independent problems. Each problem is presented as a sequential algorithm, using English or pseudocode, and a list of properties to formally prove about it, also expressed in plain English and standard mathematical notation. Participants have liberty to implement the proposed algorithms in functional, imperative, object-oriented, or any other programming style. Evaluation -- Submissions are ranked according to the total sum of points they score. Each problem includes several sub-tasks, e.g. safety, termination, behavioral correctness, etc., and each sub-task is given a number of points. While evaluating the submissions, judges take into account the accuracy and thoroughness of solutions as well as their terseness and elegance. (Clarity is more important than brevity.) A certain degree of subjectivity is inevitable and should be considered as part of the game. Participants Anybody interested can take part in the contest. Team work is allowed. Only teams up to 4 members are eligible for the first prize. Individual participants may belong to several teams. However, the same solution cannot appear in different submissions. The technical requirements are as follows: - access to the web to download the problems (PDF file); - access to the email to submit the solutions; - any software used in the solutions should be freely available for noncommercial use to the public. This does not exclude closed source programs (such as Microsoft's Z3). Software must be usable on an x86 Linux or Windows machine. Participants are authorized to modify their tools during the competition. Submission -- A submission is a (possibly compressed) tarball that contains exactly one directory (named by the team, for instance). This directory should contain at least a text file named README, and one directory for each problem solved. Thus it must look like: team/ -+ +- README +- problem1/ +- problem2/ + ... +- problemN/ +- other stuff... The README file should contain the following information: - contact information (email); - detailed description of the submitted solutions: properties that have been specified and/or proved, restrictions and/or generalizations, anything that may facilitate the review; - detailed instructions to replay the solutions, including the software to use, URLs to get it from, compilation commands, etc. Several solutions can be submitted for the same problem (for instance, using different tools). They should be stored in separate subdirectories of problemI/. During evaluation, only the best-faring solution will be taken into account. Organizers -- - Jean-Christophe Filliâtre (CNRS, France) - Andrei Paskevich (Univ Paris Sud, France) - Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) Schedule Tuesday 8 Nov 2011, 15:00 UTC - competition starts Thursday 10 Nov 2011, 15:00 UTC - competition stops Monday 12 Dec 2011 - the winner is notified 28-29 Jan 2012 - results are announced at VSTTE 2012 Prize - The winner is awarded a talk slot at VSTTE 2012, to present any research of his/her choice of interest for the VSTTE community. In particular, a presentation of solutions to the competition problems and/or of the techniques and system used would be appreciated. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012 verification competition: call for participation
VSTTE 2012 Verification Competition --- A software verification competition is organized on behalf of the VSTTE 2012 conference (https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012). The purposes of this competition are: to help promote approaches and tools, to provide new verification benchmarks, to stimulate further development of verification techniques, and to have fun. The contest takes place during two days, 17-19 November 2011, two months prior to the conference. Problems will be put on the website of the conference. Solutions must be sent by email to the competition organizers. Any programming language, specification language, and verification tool is allowed. Problems There will be several, independent problems. Each problem is presented as an algorithm, using English or pseudocode, and a list of properties to formally prove about it, also expressed in plain English and standard mathematical notation. Evaluation -- Submissions are ranked according to the total sum of points they score. Each problem includes several sub-tasks, e.g. safety, termination, behavioral correctness, etc., and each sub-task is given a number of points. While evaluating the submissions, judges take into account the accuracy and thoroughness of solutions as well as their terseness and elegance. A certain degree of subjectivity is inevitable and should be considered as part of the game. Participants Anybody interested can take part in the contest. Team work is allowed. However, only teams up to 4 members are eligible for the first prize. The technical requirements are as follows: - access to the web to download the problems (PDF file); - access to the email to submit the solutions; - any software used in the solutions should be freely available to the public (this does not exclude closed source programs such as Microsoft's Z3) and usable on an x86 Linux or Windows machine. Submission -- A submission is a (possibly compressed) tarball that contains exactly one directory (named by the team, for instance). This directory should contain at least a text file named README, and one directory for each problem solved. Thus it must look like: team/ -+ +- README +- problem1/ +- problem2/ + ... +- problemN/ +- other stuff... The README file should contain the following information: - contact information (email); - detailed description of the submitted solutions: properties that have been specified and/or proved, restrictions and/or generalizations, anything that may facilitate the review; - detailed instructions to replay the solutions, including the software to use, URLs to get it from, compilation commands, etc. Organizers -- - Jean-Christophe Filliâtre (CNRS, France) - Andrei Paskevich (Univ Paris Sud, France) - Aaron Stump (University of Iowa, USA) Schedule Thursday 17 Nov 2011, 15:00 UTC - competition starts Saturday 19 Nov 2011, 15:00 UTC - competition stops Monday 12 Dec 2011 - the winner is notified 28-29 Jan 2012 - results are announced at VSTTE 2012 Prize - The winner is awarded a talk slot at VSTTE 2012, to present any research of his/her choice of interest for the VSTTE community. In particular, a presentation of solutions to the competition problems and/or of the techniques and system used would be appreciated. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012: Extended deadline for paper submission: September 10
VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ (*** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: September 10, 2011 ***) The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. An informal verification competition will be held in parallel to the conference. More information will be available from the website. Topics of interest include: * Specification and verification techniques * Tool support for specification languages * Tool for various design methodologies * Tool integration and plug-ins * Automation in formal verification * Tool comparisons and benchmark repositories * Combination of tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software specification vs. engineering techniques) * Customizing tools for particular applications * Challenge problems * Refinement methodologies * Requirements modeling * Specification languages * Specification/verification case-studies * Software design methods * Program logic SUBMISSIONS Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions are limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods and results, together with a comparison to existing work. System descriptions are also limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress, particularly if the work involves collaboration, theory unification, and tool integration. Papers can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2012 Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The proceedings of VSTTE 2012 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES September 10, 2011: Conference Paper Submission Deadline October 20, 2011:Notification of acceptance November 15, 2011: Final conference paper versions due January 28-29, 2012: Main conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University TUTORIALS Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research CONFERENCE CHAIR Ernie Cohen, European Microsoft Innovation Center PROGRAM CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Clark Barrett, New York University Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Cousot, Ecole normale Supérieure, Paris and New York University Leonardo De Moura, Microsoft Research Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud John Hatcliff, Kansas State University Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rajeev Joshi, NASA JPL Gerwin Klein, NICTA Viktor Kuncak, EPF Lausanne Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Tobias Nipkow, Technische Universität München Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch Thomas Wies, IST Austria PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov, University of Edinburgh VERIFICATION COMPETITION ORGANISER Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University Jay Misra, UT Austin Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Jim Woodcock, University of York -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012: Final Call for Papers - Submission Deadline: August 31
VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. An informal verification competition will be held in parallel to the conference. More information will be available from the website. Topics of interest include: * Specification and verification techniques * Tool support for specification languages * Tool for various design methodologies * Tool integration and plug-ins * Automation in formal verification * Tool comparisons and benchmark repositories * Combination of tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software specification vs. engineering techniques) * Customizing tools for particular applications * Challenge problems * Refinement methodologies * Requirements modeling * Specification languages * Specification/verification case-studies * Software design methods * Program logic SUBMISSIONS Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions are limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods and results, together with a comparison to existing work. System descriptions are also limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress, particularly if the work involves collaboration, theory unification, and tool integration. Papers can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2012 Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The proceedings of VSTTE 2012 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES August 31, 2011: Conference Paper Submission Deadline October 20, 2011:Notification of acceptance November 15, 2011: Final conference paper versions due January 28-29, 2012: Main conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University TUTORIALS Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research CONFERENCE CHAIR Ernie Cohen, European Microsoft Innovation Center PROGRAM CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Clark Barrett, New York University Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Cousot, Ecole normale Supérieure, Paris and New York University Leonardo De Moura, Microsoft Research Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud John Hatcliff, Kansas State University Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rajeev Joshi, NASA JPL Gerwin Klein, NICTA Viktor Kuncak, EPF Lausanne Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Tobias Nipkow, Technische Universität München Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch Thomas Wies, IST Austria PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov, University of Edinburgh VERIFICATION COMPETITION ORGANISER Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University Jay Misra, UT Austin Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Jim Woodcock, University of York -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012 : Fourth Call for Papers - 4 weeks to go
VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. An informal verification competition will be held in parallel to the conference. More information will be available from the website. Topics of interest include: * Specification and verification techniques * Tool support for specification languages * Tool for various design methodologies * Tool integration and plug-ins * Automation in formal verification * Tool comparisons and benchmark repositories * Combination of tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software specification vs. engineering techniques) * Customizing tools for particular applications * Challenge problems * Refinement methodologies * Requirements modeling * Specification languages * Specification/verification case-studies * Software design methods * Program logic SUBMISSIONS Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions are limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods and results, together with a comparison to existing work. System descriptions are also limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress, particularly if the work involves collaboration, theory unification, and tool integration. Papers can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2012 Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The proceedings of VSTTE 2012 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES August 31, 2011: Conference Paper Submission Deadline October 20, 2011:Notification of acceptance November 15, 2011: Final conference paper versions due January 28-29, 2012: Main conference KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Rupak Majumdar, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University TUTORIALS Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research CONFERENCE CHAIR Ernie Cohen, European Microsoft Innovation Center PROGRAM CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Clark Barrett, New York University Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Cousot, Ecole normale Supérieure, Paris and New York University Leonardo De Moura, Microsoft Research Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud John Hatcliff, Kansas State University Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rajeev Joshi, NASA JPL Gerwin Klein, NICTA Viktor Kuncak, EPF Lausanne Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Tobias Nipkow, Technische Universität München Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch Thomas Wies, IST Austria PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov, University of Edinburgh VERIFICATION COMPETITION ORGANISER Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University Jay Misra, UT Austin Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Jim Woodcock, University of York -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012 : Third Call for Papers
VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. An informal verification competition will be held in parallel to the conference. More information will be available from the website. Topics of interest include: * Specification and verification techniques * Tool support for specification languages * Tool for various design methodologies * Tool integration and plug-ins * Automation in formal verification * Tool comparisons and benchmark repositories * Combination of tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software specification vs. engineering techniques) * Customizing tools for particular applications * Challenge problems * Refinement methodologies * Requirements modeling * Specification languages * Specification/verification case-studies * Software design methods * Program logic SUBMISSIONS Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions are limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods and results, together with a comparison to existing work. System descriptions are also limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress, particularly if the work involves collaboration, theory unification, and tool integration. Papers can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2012 Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The proceedings of VSTTE 2012 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES August 31, 2011: Conference Paper Submission Deadline October 20, 2011:Notification of acceptance November 15, 2011: Final conference paper versions due January 28-29, 2012: Main conference CONFERENCE CHAIR Ernie Cohen, European Microsoft Innovation Center PROGRAM CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Clark Barrett, New York University Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Cousot, Ecole normale Supérieure, Paris and New York University Leonardo De Moura, Microsoft Research Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud John Hatcliff, Kansas State University Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rajeev Joshi, NASA JPL Gerwin Klein, NICTA Viktor Kuncak, EPF Lausanne Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Tobias Nipkow, Technische Universität München Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch Thomas Wies, IST Austria PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov, University of Edinburgh VERIFICATION COMPETITION ORGANISER Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University Jay Misra, UT Austin Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Jim Woodcock, University of York -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012 : Second Call for Papers
VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. An informal verification competition will be held in parallel to the conference. More information will be available from the website. Topics of interest include: * Specification and verification techniques * Tool support for specification languages * Tool for various design methodologies * Tool integration and plug-ins * Automation in formal verification * Tool comparisons and benchmark repositories * Combination of tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software specification vs. engineering techniques) * Customizing tools for particular applications * Challenge problems * Refinement methodologies * Requirements modeling * Specification languages * Specification/verification case-studies * Software design methods * Program logic SUBMISSIONS Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions are limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods and results, together with a comparison to existing work. System descriptions are also limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress, particularly if the work involves collaboration, theory unification, and tool integration. Papers can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2012 Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The proceedings of VSTTE 2012 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES August 31, 2011: Conference Paper Submission Deadline October 20, 2011:Notification of acceptance November 15, 2011: Final conference paper versions due January 28-29, 2012: Main conference CONFERENCE CHAIR Ernie Cohen, European Microsoft Innovation Center PROGRAM CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE Clark Barrett, New York University Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen Patrick Cousot, Ecole normale Supérieure, Paris and New York University Leonardo De Moura, Microsoft Research Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud John Hatcliff, Kansas State University Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego Rajeev Joshi, NASA JPL Gerwin Klein, NICTA Viktor Kuncak, EPF Lausanne Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Tobias Nipkow, Technische Universität München Matthew Parkinson, Microsoft Research Corina Pasareanu, NASA Ames Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Willem Visser, University of Stellenbosch Thomas Wies, IST Austria PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov, University of Edinburgh VERIFICATION COMPETITION ORGANISER Jean-Christophe Filliatre, CNRS Université Paris Sud STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Andrew Ireland, Heriot-Watt University Jay Misra, UT Austin Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Jim Woodcock, University of York -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2012 : First Call for Papers
VSTTE 2012 Verified Software: Theories, Tools and Experiments January 28-29, 2012 Philadelphia, USA (co-located with POPL and VMCAI) https://sites.google.com/site/vstte2012/ The Fourth International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments will take place on January 28-29, 2012. The focus of the conference is the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying software. The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art through the interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental validation. Historically, the conference came out of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a cooperative, international initiative directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. A verification competition will be held in parallel to the conference. Topics of interest include: * Specification and verification techniques * Tool support for specification languages * Tool for various design methodologies * Tool integration and plug-ins * Automation in formal verification * Tool comparisons and benchmark repositories * Combination of tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software specification vs. engineering techniques) * Customizing tools for particular applications * Challenge problems * Refinement methodologies * Requirements modeling * Specification languages * Specification/verification case-studies * Software design methods * Program logic SUBMISSIONS Submitted research papers and system descriptions must be original and not submitted for publication elsewhere. Research paper submissions are limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format and must include a cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods and results, together with a comparison to existing work. System descriptions are also limited to 15 proceedings pages in LNCS format. Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress, particularly if the work involves collaboration, theory unification, and tool integration. Papers can be submitted at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vstte2012 Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too long will not be considered. The proceedings of VSTTE 2012 will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a form transferring copyright of their contribution to Springer-Verlag. IMPORTANT DATES August 31, 2011: Conference Paper Submission Deadline October 20, 2011:Notification of acceptance November 15, 2011: Final conference paper versions due January 28-29, 2012: Main conference CONFERENCE CHAIR Ernie Cohen, European Microsoft Innovation Center PROGRAM CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Peter Müller, ETH Zurich Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg PROGRAM COMMITTEE To be announced PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov, University of Edinburgh STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare, Microsoft Research Jay Misra, UT Austin Natarajan Shankar, SRI International Jim Woodcock, University of York -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Third Call for Participation -- Early Registration ends this week!
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) * *** Second Call for Participation -- Early Registration ends this week! *** Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland August 16th-19th, 2010 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10 SPONSORS: NSF, EPSRC, Microsoft Research, SICSA, Altran Praxis, SSEI, FME, Contemplate, Heriot-Watt University ** The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich (2005) and a successful conference in Toronto (2008). This conference is part of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. VSI also includes UKCRC's Grand Challenge 6, i.e. Dependable Systems Evolution. PROGRAMME The programme includes - Keynote presentations by Tom Ball (Microsoft), Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia), and Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge); - Invited Tool Demo Presentations by Colin O’Halloran (ClawZ/Circus) , Bart Jacobs (VeriFast), Michael Jastram (ProB) and Joe Kinry (BONc/Beetlz); - A Verification Competition; - Industrial Tool Vendors; - Two workshops: Theory WS and Tools Experiments WS; - A Summer School -- lectures given by Robert Atkey/Ewen Maclean, Alan Bundy/Lucas Dixon, Jane Hillston, Cliff Jones, Gerwin Klein, J Strother Moore, Natarajan Shankar and Graham Steel. A provisional programme is available at: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Programme.html VENUE VSTTE 2010 is being hosted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The conference dates coincide with the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe -- collectively the largest annual arts festival on the planet! The technical programme will take place in the Edinburgh Conference Centre (Heriot-Watt University campus), where accommodation will be available at very competitive rates for festival time. Social events will be arranged within the city centre, making VSTTE an unique cultural and scholarly event for 2010! SOCIAL EVENTS As well as a welcome reception and conference banquet, SICSA are sponsoring a special drinks reception in the Informatics Forum at the heart of the Festival on August 17th. STUDENT SUPPORT Support for students wishing to attend VSTTE 2010 is available. Please contact vstt...@macs.hw.ac.uk for more details. REGISTRATION Online registration is available from http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10_reg/Registration.php Early registration ends on July 31st. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Second Call for Participation -- Early Registration ends in 2 weeks
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) * *** Second Call for Participation -- Early Registration ends in 2 weeks *** Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland August 16th-19th, 2010 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10 SPONSORS: NSF, EPSRC, Microsoft Research, SICSA, Altran Praxis, SSEI, FME, Contemplate, Heriot-Watt University ** The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich (2005) and a successful conference in Toronto (2008). This conference is part of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. VSI also includes UKCRC's Grand Challenge 6, i.e. Dependable Systems Evolution. PROGRAMME The programme includes - Keynote presentations by Tom Ball (Microsoft), Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia), and Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge); - Invited Tool Demo Presentations by Colin O’Halloran (ClawZ/Circus) , Bart Jacobs (VeriFast), Michael Jastram (ProB) and Joe Kinry (BONc/Beetlz); - A Verification Competition; - Industrial Tool Vendors; - Two workshops: Theory WS and Tools Experiments WS; - A Summer School -- lectures given by Robert Atkey/Ewen Maclean, Alan Bundy/Lucas Dixon, Jane Hillston, Cliff Jones, Gerwin Klein, J Strother Moore, Natarajan Shankar and Graham Steel; A provisional programme is available at: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Programme.html VENUE VSTTE 2010 is being hosted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The conference dates coincide with the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe -- collectively the largest annual arts festival on the planet! The technical programme will take place in the Edinburgh Conference Centre (Heriot-Watt University campus), where accommodation will be available at very competitive rates for festival time. Social events will be arranged within the city centre, making VSTTE an unique cultural and scholarly event for 2010! SOCIAL EVENTS As well as a welcome reception and conference banquet, SICSA are sponsoring a special drinks reception in the Informatics Forum at the heart of the Festival on August 17th. STUDENT SUPPORT Support for students wishing to attend VSTTE 2010 is available. Please contact vstt...@macs.hw.ac.uk for more details. REGISTRATION Online registration is available from http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10_reg/Registration.php Early registration ends on July 31st. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: First Call for Participation
(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement) * *** First Call for Participation *** Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland August 16th-19th, 2010 http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10 SPONSORS: NSF, EPSRC, Microsoft Research, SICSA, Altran Praxis, SSEI, FME, Contemplate, Heriot-Watt University ** The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at Zurich (2005) and a successful conference in Toronto (2008). This conference is part of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. VSI also includes UKCRC's Grand Challenge 6, i.e. Dependable Systems Evolution. PROGRAMME The programme includes keynote presentations by Tom Ball (Microsoft), Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia), Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge). There will also be a Summer School, Invited Tool Demo Presentations, a Verification Competition, Industrial Tool Vendors as wells as two workshops: Theory WS and Tools Experiments WS. A provisional programme is available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Programme.html VENUE VSTTE 2010 is being hosted by Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The conference dates coincide with the 2010 Edinburgh International Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe -- collectively the largest annual arts festival on the planet! The technical programme will take place in the Edinburgh Conference Centre (Heriot-Watt University campus), where accommodation will be available at very competitive rates for festival time. Social events will be arranged within the city centre, making VSTTE an unique cultural and scholarly event for 2010! SOCIAL EVENTS As well as a welcome reception and conference banquet, SICSA are sponsoring a special drinks reception in the Informatics Forum at the heart of the Festival on August 17th. STUDENT SUPPORT Limited support for students wishing to attend VSTTE 2010 is available. Please contact vstt...@macs.hw.ac.uk for more details. REGISTRATION Online registration is available from http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10_reg/Registration.php Early registration ends on July 31st. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] Call for Participation: SICSA Summer School on Formal Reasoning Representation of Complex Systems
*** Apologies for multiple copies *** Call for Participation --- SSFRR 2010 SICSA Summer School on Formal Reasoning Representation of Complex Systems 14-15 August 2010 -- Heriot-Watt University campus -- Edinburgh Satellite summer school of VSTTE 2010 http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/ -- ABOUT - The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification techniques, addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight introductory lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the overall themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation logic; operating system verification; process algebras and formal analysis of security. The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or both of these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a prerequisite. All lectures are meant to be introductory. PRESENTERS - The following will present at the summer school: * Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University) * Alan Bundy Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh) * Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) * Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle) * Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia) * J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI) * Graham Steel (INRIA) REGISTRATION - Registration is available from: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10_reg/Registration.php The registration fee is £110, which also covers materials and lunches. Accommodation at the Heriot-Watt campus (£42.50 per night incl. VAT and breakfast) can be including with your booking when you register. This is highly recommended since the summer school will coincide with several of the famous Edinburgh festivals -- where hotel prices in town tend to be very inflated. SICSA will cover registration and two nights campus accommodation for SICSA students (students from most Scottish Universities -- see http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/ to check if you are eligible). The number of SICSA students is limited, and a decision on ranking if this number is exceeded will only be taken if necessary. PRELIMINARY PROGRAM - The summer school has the following preliminary program (timing and titles may still change): Saturday: * 09:00: Registration * 09:30: J Moore -- Machines Reasoning about Machines - 39 Years and Counting * 11:00: Coffee break * 11:30: Gerwin Klein -- Specification and Refinement in Operating System Verification * 13:00: Lunch * 14:00: Bob Atkey/Ewen Maclean -- Amortised Resource Analysis and Functional Correctness with Separation Logic * 15:30: Coffee break * 16:00: Alan Bundy/Lucas Dixon -- Proof-planning, inductive reasoning, and beyond * 17:30: End Sunday: * 09:30: Natarajan Shankar -- Verification using SAT and SMT solvers * 11:00: Coffee break * 11:30: Graham Steel -- Formal Analysis of Key Management APIs * 13:00: Lunch * 14:00: Cliff Jones -- Tackling concurrency by reasoning explicitly about inference * 15:30: Coffee break * 16:00: Jane Hillston -- From Milner to Markov and Back: Stochastic process algebras and their equivalence relations * 17:30: End VENUE - The summer school is a satellite event of VSSTE 2010 (see http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/) and will be held the two days before the main event: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August 2010. Like VSTTE 2010, it will be held at the Edinburgh campus of Heriot-Watt University. ORGANISERS - The summer school is jointly organised by The School of Informatics at Edinburgh University and The School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University by: * Lucas Dixon (Edinburgh) * Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh) * Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt) CONTACT - The organisers can be contacted at the following email address: ssfrr-2...@inf.ed.ac.uk. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Final Call for Poster Session Submissions
19th: * VS-Theory focuses on theoretical foundations of software verification. Topics range from the difficult and essential study of soundness of delicate proof methods, to the discovery of new specification techniques and proof methods, to dramatic simplification or unification of existing methods, to as yet unknown breakthroughs. * VS-Tools Experiments focuses on the development of verification tools and their experimental evaluation. Possible topics include interfaces between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. SUMMER SCHOOL There will be a two-day summer-school preceding the main conference on the 14 and 15 August. The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification techniques, addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight introductory lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the overall themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation logic; operating system verification; formal analysis of security. The following will present at the summer school: * Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University) * Alan Bundy Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh) * Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) * Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle) * Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia) * J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI) * Graham Steel (INRIA) The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or both of these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a prerequisite. All lectures are meant to be introductory. For more information see: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/ COMPETITION A verification competition will be held at VSTTE 2010. The challenge is to develop a machine-verified piece of software with respect to a given specification. The competition will be conducted over a 2.5 hour period on some evening of the conference. The problem will be presented with a logical specification and test cases over .5 hours including time for discussion with 2 hours to construct a solution. Each competing team can feature up to three members. You can use any tool or combination of tools as well as libraries, but you cannot modify these tools. You can reinterpret the specification to suit your tools and methods, but you will be judged on the fidelity of your interpretation. The goal is to produce an executable program and a replayable proof that the program meets the specification. It will be possible to code the solution using integers and arrays. The solutions will be judged for soundness (absence of bugs) and completeness (presence of proofs). The three best solutions will be selected and the respective teams will be invited to make presentations at the tools/experiments workshop. You must register a copy of the verification system with the judges prior to the competition with instructions for replaying proofs and running the programs. CONFERENCE CHAIR Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University; a.irel...@hw.ac.uk) PROGRAM CHAIRS Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary, University of London; ohe...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Gary T. Leavens (University of Central Florida; leav...@eecs.ucf.edu) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research; sri...@microsoft.com) WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich; peter.muel...@inf.ethz.ch) THEORY WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology; dnaum...@stevens.edu) Hongseok Yang (Queen Mary, University of London; hy...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) TOOLS EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi (NASA JPL; rajeev.jo...@jpl.nasa.gov) Tiziana Margaria (Universitat Potsdam; marga...@cs.uni-potsdam.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh University; gg...@inf.ed.ac.uk) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University; e.a.h.macl...@hw.ac.uk) CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ahmed Bouajjani Leo Freitas Philippa Gardner John Hatcliff Ranjit Jhala Joseph Kiniry Rustan Leino Xavier Leroy David Naumann Matthew Parkinson Wolfgang Paul Shaz Qadeer Andrey Rybalchenko Augusto Sampaio Zhong Shao Aaron Stump Serdar Tasiran Willem Visser Chin Wei-Ngan Stephanie Weirich Greta Yorsh STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare Jay Misra Natarajan Shankar Jim Woodcock -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: 2nd Call for Poster Session Submissions
: * VS-Theory focuses on theoretical foundations of software verification. Topics range from the difficult and essential study of soundness of delicate proof methods, to the discovery of new specification techniques and proof methods, to dramatic simplification or unification of existing methods, to as yet unknown breakthroughs. * VS-Tools Experiments focuses on the development of verification tools and their experimental evaluation. Possible topics include interfaces between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. SUMMER SCHOOL There will be a two-day summer-school preceding the main conference on the 14 and 15 August. The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification techniques, addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight introductory lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the overall themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation logic; operating system verification; formal analysis of security. The following will present at the summer school: * Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University) * Alan Bundy Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh) * Jane Hillston (University of Edinburgh) * Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle) * Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia) * J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI) * Graham Steel (INRIA) The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or both of these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a prerequisite. All lectures are meant to be introductory. For more information see: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/ COMPETITION A verification competition will be held at VSTTE 2010. The challenge is to develop a machine-verified piece of software with respect to a given specification. The competition will be conducted over a 2.5 hour period on some evening of the conference. The problem will be presented with a logical specification and test cases over .5 hours including time for discussion with 2 hours to construct a solution. Each competing team can feature up to three members. You can use any tool or combination of tools as well as libraries, but you cannot modify these tools. You can reinterpret the specification to suit your tools and methods, but you will be judged on the fidelity of your interpretation. The goal is to produce an executable program and a replayable proof that the program meets the specification. It will be possible to code the solution using integers and arrays. The solutions will be judged for soundness (absence of bugs) and completeness (presence of proofs). The three best solutions will be selected and the respective teams will be invited to make presentations at the tools/experiments workshop. You must register a copy of the verification system with the judges prior to the competition with instructions for replaying proofs and running the programs. CONFERENCE CHAIR Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University; a.irel...@hw.ac.uk) PROGRAM CHAIRS Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary, University of London; ohe...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Gary T. Leavens (University of Central Florida; leav...@eecs.ucf.edu) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research; sri...@microsoft.com) WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich; peter.muel...@inf.ethz.ch) THEORY WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology; dnaum...@stevens.edu) Hongseok Yang (Queen Mary, University of London; hy...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) TOOLS EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi (NASA JPL; rajeev.jo...@jpl.nasa.gov) Tiziana Margaria (Universitat Potsdam; marga...@cs.uni-potsdam.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh University; gg...@inf.ed.ac.uk) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University; e.a.h.macl...@hw.ac.uk) CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ahmed Bouajjani Leo Freitas Philippa Gardner John Hatcliff Ranjit Jhala Joseph Kiniry Rustan Leino Xavier Leroy David Naumann Matthew Parkinson Wolfgang Paul Shaz Qadeer Andrey Rybalchenko Augusto Sampaio Zhong Shao Aaron Stump Serdar Tasiran Willem Visser Chin Wei-Ngan Stephanie Weirich Greta Yorsh STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare Jay Misra Natarajan Shankar Jim Woodcock -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland
[Haskell] PhD position available on `The Productive Use of Failure in Formal Methods'
--- apologies for multiple postings --- The mathematical reasoning research group in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh is advertising for a PhD funded by the EPSRC project AI4FM: Using AI to aid automation of proof search in Formal Methods. The proposed topic of the PhD is The Productive Use of Failure in Formal Methods. ** DESCRIPTION The task allocated to this PhD will be to analyse ways in which proof attempts fail and are subsequently repaired. This analysis will be realised in a generic, strategy language for describing and classifying common forms of failure and repair. The strategy language will, in turn, be used, firstly, to describe how experts recover from failure and, secondly, to guide recovery during automated proof search of related proofs. Example failed proofs will be harvested from (a) the data from the toolset of Rodin formal methods system, (b) the manual, expert proof attempts on source theorems and (c) failed applications to target theorems of proof strategies abstracted from manual expert proofs of source theorems. Examples of repaired proof attempts will be harvested from the expert's work on failures of both types (b) and (c). This work will enhance the abilities of our prototype so it can benefit from initially failed proof attempts as well as successful ones. ** DEGREE OF DIFFICULTY A challenging project that requires mathematical sophistication, analytic skills and creativity in constructing the strategy language. ** BACKGROUND NEEDED A background in mathematics, logic or formal methods is required to provide the necessary mathematical maturity to undertake this project. ** CONTACT If you have any queries, please contact: - Gudmund Grov: gg...@inf.ed.ac.uk , or - Alan Bundy: bu...@inf.ed.ac.uk. Please use our Schools PhD application page (see below) for applications. ** SOME LINKS - A description of the proposed PhD project: http://wcms.inf.ed.ac.uk/pgrguide/prospectus/projects-container/the-productive-use-of-failure-in-formal-methods - The web page for the AI4FM project: http://www.ai4fm.org/ - Our School's PhD application page: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/postgraduate/phd.html ** IMPORTANT DATES There is no deadline for this application, but we do recommended candidates to apply as soon as possible since the position may be allocated without further notice. We are fairly flexible on the starting date, but would ideally like it to start between October 2010 and April 2011. ** ABOUT THE RESEARCH INSTITUTION AND RESEARCH GROUP The Edinburgh School of Informatics obtained the highest volume of 4* activity in its unit of assessment in RAE 2008. It contains world-class research groups in the areas of theoretical computer science, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. The Mathematical Reasoning Group in the School of Informatics has been engaged on the computational analysis, development and application of mathematical reasoning processes and their interactions since the mid 1970s (http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/). Its work is characterised by its unique blend of computational theory with artificial intelligence. It has pioneered work on proof planning, tactic learning, and ontology construction and evolution. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] EXTENDED DEADLINE: VSTTE workshops on Theory and on Experiments Tools
-- Apologies for multiple copies -- VSTTE 2010: Workshops on Theories, Tools and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland, 19th August 2010 (*** NEW SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 28, 2010 *) The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE) is part of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. VSTTE will host two workshops: * VS-Theory focuses on theoretical foundations of software verification. Topics range from the difficult and essential study of soundness of delicate proof methods, to the discovery of new specification techniques and proof methods, to dramatic simplification or unification of existing methods, to as yet unknown breakthroughs. * VS-Tools Experiments focuses on the development of verification tools and their experimental evaluation. Topics include interfaces between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. For further details, see the workshop web site: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html Submissions Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. Details on the submission process are available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html. Important Dates Submission:May 28, 2010 Notification: June 25, 2010 Final version: July 23, 2010 Workshops: August 19, 2010, 9am-1pm Chairs * VS-Theory is co-chaired by David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and Hongseok Yang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK * VS-Tools Experiments is co-chaired by Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany and Rajeev Joshi, NASA/JPL Laboratory for Reliable Software, USA ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] Final Call for Papers: VSTTE workshops on Theory and on Experiments Tools
-- Apologies for multiple copies -- VSTTE 2010: Workshops on Theories, Tools and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland, 19th August 2010 (*** only 1 week to go! *) The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE) is part of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. VSTTE will host two workshops: * VS-Theory focuses on theoretical foundations of software verification. Topics range from the difficult and essential study of soundness of delicate proof methods, to the discovery of new specification techniques and proof methods, to dramatic simplification or unification of existing methods, to as yet unknown breakthroughs. * VS-Tools Experiments focuses on the development of verification tools and their experimental evaluation. Topics include interfaces between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. For further details, see the workshop web site: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html Submissions Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. Details on the submission process are available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html. Important Dates Submission:May 21, 2010 Notification: June 25, 2010 Final version: July 23, 2010 Workshops: August 19, 2010, 9am-1pm Chairs * VS-Theory is co-chaired by David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and Hongseok Yang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK * VS-Tools Experiments is co-chaired by Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany and Rajeev Joshi, NASA/JPL Laboratory for Reliable Software, USA -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] 2nd Call for Papers: VSTTE workshops on Theory and on Experiments Tools
-- Apologies for multiple copies -- VSTTE 2010: Workshops on Theories, Tools and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland, 19th August 2010 The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE) is part of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. VSTTE will host two workshops: * VS-Theory focuses on theoretical foundations of software verification. Topics range from the difficult and essential study of soundness of delicate proof methods, to the discovery of new specification techniques and proof methods, to dramatic simplification or unification of existing methods, to as yet unknown breakthroughs. * VS-Tools Experiments focuses on the development of verification tools and their experimental evaluation. Topics include interfaces between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. For further details, see the workshop web site: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html Submissions Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. Details on the submission process are available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html. Important Dates Submission:May 21, 2010 Notification: June 25, 2010 Final version: July 23, 2010 Workshops: August 19, 2010, 9am-1pm Chairs * VS-Theory is co-chaired by David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and Hongseok Yang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK * VS-Tools Experiments is co-chaired by Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany and Rajeev Joshi, NASA/JPL Laboratory for Reliable Software, USA -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Call for POSTERS
to the main conference, VSTTE will host two workshops on August 19th: * VS-Theory focuses on theoretical foundations of software verification. Topics range from the difficult and essential study of soundness of delicate proof methods, to the discovery of new specification techniques and proof methods, to dramatic simplification or unification of existing methods, to as yet unknown breakthroughs. * VS-Tools Experiments focuses on the development of verification tools and their experimental evaluation. Possible topics include interfaces between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. SUMMER SCHOOL There will be a two-day summer-school preceding the main conference on the 14 and 15 August. The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification techniques, addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight introductory lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the overall themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation logic; operating system verification; formal analysis of security. The following will present at the summer school: * Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University) * Alan Bundy Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh) * Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle) * Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia) * J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI) * Graham Steel (INRIA) The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or both of these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a prerequisite. All lectures are meant to be introductory. For more information see: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/ COMPETITION A verification competition will be held at VSTTE 2010. The challenge is to develop a machine-verified piece of software with respect to a given specification. The competition will be conducted over a 2.5 hour period on some evening of the conference. The problem will be presented with a logical specification and test cases over .5 hours including time for discussion with 2 hours to construct a solution. Each competing team can feature up to three members. You can use any tool or combination of tools as well as libraries, but you cannot modify these tools. You can reinterpret the specification to suit your tools and methods, but you will be judged on the fidelity of your interpretation. The goal is to produce an executable program and a replayable proof that the program meets the specification. It will be possible to code the solution using integers and arrays. The solutions will be judged for soundness (absence of bugs) and completeness (presence of proofs). The three best solutions will be selected and the respective teams will be invited to make presentations at the tools/experiments workshop. You must register a copy of the verification system with the judges prior to the competition with instructions for replaying proofs and running the programs. CONFERENCE CHAIR Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University; a.irel...@hw.ac.uk) PROGRAM CHAIRS Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary, University of London; ohe...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Gary T. Leavens (University of Central Florida; leav...@eecs.ucf.edu) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research; sri...@microsoft.com) WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich; peter.muel...@inf.ethz.ch) THEORY WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology; dnaum...@stevens.edu) Hongseok Yang (Queen Mary, University of London; hy...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) TOOLS EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi (NASA JPL; rajeev.jo...@jpl.nasa.gov) Tiziana Margaria (Universitat Potsdam; marga...@cs.uni-potsdam.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh University; gg...@inf.ed.ac.uk) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University; e.a.h.macl...@hw.ac.uk) CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ahmed Bouajjani Leo Freitas Philippa Gardner John Hatcliff Ranjit Jhala Joseph Kiniry Rustan Leino Xavier Leroy David Naumann Matthew Parkinson Wolfgang Paul Shaz Qadeer Andrey Rybalchenko Augusto Sampaio Zhong Shao Aaron Stump Serdar Tasiran Willem Visser Chin Wei-Ngan Stephanie Weirich Greta Yorsh STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare Jay Misra Natarajan Shankar Jim Woodcock -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered
[Haskell] CFP: VSTTE workshops on Theory and on Experiments Tools
-- Apologies for multiple copies -- VSTTE 2010: Workshops on Theories, Tools and Experiments Edinburgh, Scotland, 19th August 2010 The Third International Conference on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE) is part of the Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative, international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale software verification. VSTTE will host two workshops: * VS-Theory focuses on theoretical foundations of software verification. Topics range from the difficult and essential study of soundness of delicate proof methods, to the discovery of new specification techniques and proof methods, to dramatic simplification or unification of existing methods, to as yet unknown breakthroughs. * VS-Tools Experiments focuses on the development of verification tools and their experimental evaluation. Topics include interfaces between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. For further details, see the workshop web site: http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html Submissions Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. Details on the submission process are available at http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Workshops.html. Important Dates Submission:May 21, 2010 Notification: June 25, 2010 Final version: July 23, 2010 Workshops: August 19, 2010, 9am-1pm Chairs * VS-Theory is co-chaired by David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA and Hongseok Yang, Queen Mary, University of London, UK * VS-Tools Experiments is co-chaired by Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany and Rajeev Joshi, NASA/JPL Laboratory for Reliable Software, USA -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Verified Software -- Final Call for Conference Papers
between tools, tool integration platforms, and case studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. IMPORTANT DATES March 29 2010: Conference paper submission deadline May 10 2010: Decisions on papers May 21 2010: Workshop paper submission June 1 2010: Final conference paper versions due June 25 2010: Decisions on workshop papers July 23 2010: Final workshop paper version August 16-18 2010: Main conference August 19 2010: Workshops RESEARCH STUDENT SUPPORT A limited number of grants, cover registration and travel, will be available to support PhD students wishing to attend VSTTE 2010. More details to follow via the website. SUMMER SCHOOL There will be a two-day summer-school preceding the main conference on the 14 and 15 August. The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification techniques, addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight introductory lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the overall themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation logic; operating system verification; and formal analysis of security. The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or both of these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a prerequisite. All lectures are meant to be introductory. For more information see: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/ COMPETITION A verification competition will be held at VSTTE 2010. The challenge is to develop a machine-verified piece of software with respect to a given specification. The competition will be conducted over a 2.5 hour period on some evening of the conference. The problem will be presented with a logical specification and test cases over .5 hours including time for discussion with 2 hours to construct a solution. Each competing team can feature up to three members. You can use any tool or combination of tools as well as libraries, but you cannot modify these tools. You can reinterpret the specification to suit your tools and methods, but you will be judged on the fidelity of your interpretation. The goal is to produce an executable program and a replayable proof that the program meets the specification. It will be possible to code the solution using integers and arrays. The solutions will be judged for soundness (absence of bugs) and completeness (presence of proofs). The three best solutions will be selected and the respective teams will be invited to make presentations at the tools/experiments workshop. You must register a copy of the verification system with the judges prior to the competition with instructions for replaying proofs and running the programs. CONFERENCE CHAIR Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University; a.irel...@hw.ac.uk) PROGRAM CHAIRS Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary, University of London; ohe...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Gary T. Leavens (University of Central Florida; leav...@eecs.ucf.edu) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research; sri...@microsoft.com) WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich; peter.muel...@inf.ethz.ch) THEORY WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology; dnaum...@stevens.edu) Hongseok Yang (Queen Mary, University of London; hy...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) TOOLS EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi (NASA JPL; rajeev.jo...@jpl.nasa.gov) Tiziana Margaria (Universitat Potsdam; marga...@cs.uni-potsdam.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh University; gg...@inf.ed.ac.uk) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University; e.a.h.macl...@hw.ac.uk) CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ahmed Bouajjani Leo Freitas Philippa Gardner John Hatcliff Ranjit Jhala Joseph Kiniry Rustan Leino Xavier Leroy David Naumann Matthew Parkinson Wolfgang Paul Shaz Qadeer Andrey Rybalchenko Augusto Sampaio Zhong Shao Aaron Stump Serdar Tasiran Willem Visser Chin Wei-Ngan Stephanie Weirich Greta Yorsh STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare Jay Misra Natarajan Shankar Jim Woodcock -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Verified Software -- Third Call for Papers
studies. The workshops will provide a forum to present new, possibly unfinished work and will also give the opportunity to propose research challenges, which will help form a research agenda for the Verified Software Initiative. Papers must be written in English using Springer LNCS style. The page limit is 10 pages for technical papers and 5 pages for proposals of verification challenges. The proceedings will be published as a technical report. IMPORTANT DATES March 29 2010: Conference paper submission deadline May 10 2010: Decisions on papers May 21 2010: Workshop paper submission June 1 2010Final conference paper versions due June 23 2010: Final workshop paper version August 16-18 2010: Main conference August 19 2010:Workshops RESEARCH STUDENT SUPPORT A limited number of grants, cover registration and travel, will be available to support PhD students wishing to attend VSTTE 2010. More details to follow via the website. SUMMER SCHOOL There will be a two-day summer-school preceding the main conference on the 14 and 15 August. The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification techniques, addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight introductory lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the overall themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation logic; operating system verification; BiGraphs and formal analysis of security. The following will present at the summer school: * Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University) * Alan Bundy Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh) * Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle) * Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia) * Robin Milner (University of Cambridge/Edinburgh) * J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI) * Graham Steel (INRIA) The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or both of these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a prerequisite. All lectures are meant to be introductory. For more information see: http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/ COMPETITION A verification competition will be held at VSTTE 2010. The challenge is to develop a machine-verified piece of software with respect to a given specification. The competition will be conducted over a 2.5 hour period on some evening of the conference. The problem will be presented with a logical specification and test cases over .5 hours including time for discussion with 2 hours to construct a solution. Each competing team can feature up to three members. You can use any tool or combination of tools as well as libraries, but you cannot modify these tools. You can reinterpret the specification to suit your tools and methods, but you will be judged on the fidelity of your interpretation. The goal is to produce an executable program and a replayable proof that the program meets the specification. It will be possible to code the solution using integers and arrays. The solutions will be judged for soundness (absence of bugs) and completeness (presence of proofs). The three best solutions will be selected and the respective teams will be invited to make presentations at the tools/experiments workshop. You must register a copy of the verification system with the judges prior to the competition with instructions for replaying proofs and running the programs. CONFERENCE CHAIR Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University; a.irel...@hw.ac.uk) PROGRAM CHAIRS Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary, University of London; ohe...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Gary T. Leavens (University of Central Florida; leav...@eecs.ucf.edu) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research; sri...@microsoft.com) WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich; peter.muel...@inf.ethz.ch) THEORY WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology; dnaum...@stevens.edu) Hongseok Yang (Queen Mary, University of London; hy...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) TOOLS EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi (NASA JPL; rajeev.jo...@jpl.nasa.gov) Tiziana Margaria (Universität Potsdam; marga...@cs.uni-potsdam.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh University; gg...@inf.ed.ac.uk) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University; e.a.h.macl...@hw.ac.uk) CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ahmed Bouajjani Leo Freitas Philippa Gardner John Hatcliff Ranjit Jhala Joseph Kiniry Rustan Leino Xavier Leroy David Naumann Matthew Parkinson Wolfgang Paul Shaz Qadeer Andrey Rybalchenko Augusto Sampaio Zhong Shao Aaron Stump Serdar Tasiran Willem Visser Chin Wei-Ngan Stephanie Weirich Greta Yorsh STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare Jay Misra Natarajan Shankar Jim Woodcock -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered
[Haskell] Call for Participation -- SICSA Summer School on Formal Reasoning Representation of Complex Systems
Call for Participation --- SSFRR 2010 SICSA Summer School on Formal Reasoning Representation of Complex Systems 14-15 August 2010 -- Heriot-Watt University campus -- Edinburgh Satellite summer school of VSTTE 2010 http://dream.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/ssfrr-2010/ -- ABOUT - The summer school will give a broad overview of software verification techniques, addressing both bottom-up and top-down approaches with a strong focus on the formal representation and reasoning themes. The school consists of eight introductory lectures, each concentrating on an unique aspect of one or both of the overall themes. The topics of the lectures include inductive theorem proving; SAT and SMT solving; proof planning and rippling; rely/guarantee conditions; separation logic; operating system verification; BiGraphs and formal analysis of security. The school is intended for PhD students and researchers working within one or both of these themes, however familiarity with any of the techniques is not a prerequisite. All lectures are meant to be introductory. PRESENTERS - The following will present at the summer school: * Robert Atkey (University of Strathclyde) Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University) * Alan Bundy Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh) * Cliff Jones (University of Newcastle) * Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia) * Robin Milner (University of Cambridge/Edinburgh) * J Strother Moore (University of Texas at Austin) * Natarajan Shankar (SRI) * Graham Steel (INRIA) PRELIMINARY PROGRAM - The summer school has the following preliminary program (timing and titles may still change): Saturday: * 09:00: Registration * 09:30: J Moore -- Machines Reasoning about Machines - 39 Years and Counting * 11:00: Coffee break * 11:30: Gerwin Klein -- Specification and Refinement in Operating System Verification * 13:00: Lunch * 14:00: Bob Atkey/Ewen Maclean -- Amortised Resource Analysis and Functional Correctness with Separation Logic * 15:30: Coffee break * 16:00: Alan Bundy/Lucas Dixon -- Proof-planning, inductive reasoning, and beyond * 17:30: End Sunday: * 09:30: Natarajan Shankar -- Verification using SAT and SMT solvers * 11:00: Coffee break * 11:30: Graham Steel -- Formal Analysis of Security * 13:00: Lunch * 14:00: Cliff Jones -- Tackling concurrency by reasoning explicitly about inference * 15:30: Coffee break * 16:00: Robin Milner -- BiGraphs: a Model for Mobile Agents * 17:30: End VENUE - The summer school is a satellite event of VSSTE 2010 (see http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/) and will be held the two days before the main event: Saturday 14th and Sunday 15th August 2010. Like VSTTE 2010, it will be held at the Edinburgh campus of Heriot-Watt University. REGISTRATION - The registration fee is £110, which also covers materials and lunches. We will offer campus accommodation at £42.50 (incl. VAT and breakfast) per night, which will be possible to book during registration. This is highly recommended since the summer school will coincide with several of the famous Edinburgh festivals -- where hotel prices in town tend to be very inflated. SICSA will cover registration and two nights campus accommodation for SICSA students (students from most Scottish Universities -- see http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/ to check if you are eligible). The number of SICSA students is limited, and a decision on ranking if this number is exceeded will only be taken if necessary. The registration will be joint with the VSTTE conference and will open shortly. However, due to a limited number of places, we can now offer pre-registration by emailing your details to ssfrr-2...@inf.ed.ac.uk. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis. Please include the following in your email: * your name * your institution and country * if you are a SICSA student (matriculation number in case you are) * your research area/topic ORGANISERS - The summer school is jointly organised by The School of Informatics at Edinburgh University and The School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University by: * Lucas Dixon (Edinburgh) * Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh) * Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt) CONTACT - The organisers can be contacted at the following email address: ssfrr-2...@inf.ed.ac.uk. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
[Haskell] VSTTE 2010: Verified Software -- Second Call for Papers
2010: Final workshop paper version August 16-18 2010: Main conference August 19 2010:Workshops CONFERENCE CHAIR Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University; a.irel...@hw.ac.uk) PROGRAM CHAIRS Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary, University of London; ohe...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) Gary T. Leavens (University of Central Florida; leav...@eecs.ucf.edu) Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research; sri...@microsoft.com) WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich; peter.muel...@inf.ethz.ch) THEORY WORKSHOP CHAIRS David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology; dnaum...@stevens.edu) Hongseok Yang (Queen Mary, University of London; hy...@dcs.qmul.ac.uk) TOOLS EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP CHAIRS Rajeev Joshi (NASA JPL; rajeev.jo...@jpl.nasa.gov) Tiziana Margaria (Universität Potsdam; marga...@cs.uni-potsdam.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh University; gg...@inf.ed.ac.uk) LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University; e.a.h.macl...@hw.ac.uk) CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ahmed Bouajjani Leo Freitas Philippa Gardner John Hatcliff Ranjit Jhala Joseph Kiniry Rustan Leino Xavier Leroy David Naumann Matthew Parkinson Wolfgang Paul Shaz Qadeer Andrey Rybalchenko Augusto Sampaio Zhong Shao Aaron Stump Serdar Tasiran Willem Visser Chin Wei-Ngan Stephanie Weirich Greta Yorsh STEERING COMMITTEE Tony Hoare Jay Misra Natarajan Shankar Jim Woodcock ___ Haskell mailing list Haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
