Call for Papers: Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments 2008

[Richard Paige]

		PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
		Second IFIP Working Conference on
	Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments

				VSTTE 2008
		http://qpq.csl.sri.com/vsr/vstte-08
		Oct 6--10, 2008, Toronto, Canada

Program Chairs:
Jim Woodcock, University of York, jim at cs.york.ac.uk
Natarajan Shankar, SRI International, shankar at csl.sri.com

Program Committee:

Egon Borger, Supratik Chakraborty, Patrick Cousot, Jin Song Dong,
Jose Luiz Fiadeiro, Kokichi Futatsugi, Chris George, Ian Hayes,
Eric Hehner, Rajeev Joshi, Joseph Kiniry, Yassine Lakhnech,
Gary Leavens, Zhiming Liu, Peter Manolios, Tiziana Margaria,
David Naumann, Peter O'Hearn, Ernst-Rudiger Olderog, Wolfgang Paul,
Augusto Sampaio, Mark Utting, Jian Zhang

Conference Chair:
Eric Hehner, University of Toronto, hehner at cs.utoronto.ca

Workshop Chairs:
Theory: David Naumann (Stevens) and Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary)
Tools: Daniel Kroening (ETH) and Tiziana Margaria (Potsdam)
Experiments: Rajeev Joshi (JPL) and Joseph Kiniry (University College,
Dublin)

Publicity Chair:
Richard Paige, University of York, paige at cs.york.ac.uk

Steering Committee:
Tony Hoare, Jay Misra

Important Dates:

April 30 2008:Submission deadline
June 30 2008:Decisions on papers
July 31 2008 Final versions due
October 6--9 2008: VSTTE 2008


The Second IFIP Working Conference on Verified Software: Theories,
Tools, and Experiments follows a successful inaugural working conference at
Zurich, Switzerland in 2005.This conference formally inaugurates the
Verified Software Initiative (VSI), a fifteen-year, cooperative,
international project directed at the scientific challenges of large-scale
software verification.It is open to anyone who is interested in
participating actively in the VSI effort.

Scope: VSTTE 2008 invites submissions of technical papers on all
aspects of verified software covering theoretical as well as
experimental. The topics include requirements modeling, specification
languages, specification case-studies, formal calculi, programming
languages, language semantics, software design methods, software testing,
automatic code generation, refinement methodologies, type systems,
computer security, verification tools (static analysis, dynamic analysis, model
checking, theorem proving, satisfiability), tool integration,
benchmarks, challenge problems, and integrated verification environments.
We are especially interested in specific challenges such as the POPLMark
(http://alliance.seas.upenn.edu/ plclub/cgi-bin/poplmark/), File system
(http://www.cs.york.ac.uk/circus/mc/abz), and medical devices
(http://www.cas.mcmaster.ca/sqrl/pacemaker.htm).

Invited Speakers:

Andreas Podelski, University of Freiburg
Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research
John Reynolds, Carnegie-Mellon University
Moshe Vardi, Rice University

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 and must include a
cogent and self-contained description of the ideas, methods, results,
and comparison to existing work. Submissions of theoretical, practical, and
experimental contributions are equally encouraged, including those that
focus on specific problems or problem domains.

Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/VSTTE08.

Submissions that arrive late or are too long will not be considered.The
proceedings of VSTTE 2008 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.The use
of LaTeX and the Springer llncs class files, obtainable from
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html, is strongly encouraged.

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Dr. Richard Paige
Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering
Department of Computer Science,
University of York,
Heslington, York, YO10 5DD, United Kingdom.
+44 1904 433242
paige at cs.york.ac.uk