Call for Papers
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers RV'01 Post-CAV Workshop on Runtime Verification http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/rv 23 July, 2001 Paris, France The workshop will be arranged as one of five approved satellite workshops on the final day of the CAV conference: http://www.lsv.ens-cachan.fr/cav01 OBJECTIVES The objective of RV'01 is to bring scientists from both academia and industry together to debate on how to monitor, analyze and guide the execution of programs. The ultimate longer term goal is to investigate whether the use of lightweight formal methods applied during the execution of programs is a viable complement to the current heavyweight methods proving programs correct always before their execution, such as model checking and theorem proving. Dynamic program monitoring and analysis can occur during testing or during operation. The subject covers several technical fields as outlined below. Dynamic Program Analysis. Techniques that gather information during program execution and use it to conclude properties about the program, either during test or in operation. Algorithms for detecting multi-threading errors in execution traces, such as deadlocks and data races. Specification Languages and Logics. Formal methods scientists have investigated logics and developed technologies that are suitable for model checking and theorem proving, but monitoring can reveal new observation-based foundational logics. Program Instrumentation. Techniques for instrumenting programs, at the source code or object code/byte code level, to emit relevant events to an observer. Program Guidance. Techniques for guiding the behavior of a program once its specification is violated. This ranges from standard exceptions to advanced planning. Guidance can also be used during testing to expose errors. Both foundational and practical aspects or dynamic monitoring are encouraged. SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be extended abstracts of 8-12 pages, describing recent work, work-in-progress, and even highly speculative work on all aspects of dynamic program monitoring and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Specification languages and logics for program monitoring. - Tools for analyzing (at runtime) the coherence between design patterns and code. - Dynamic program analysis techniques. - Tools for tracing and dynamic analysis of concurrent/distributed systems. - Multi-threading analysis, such as deadlock and data race detection. - Detection of significant events in concurrent/distributed computations. - Event extraction: how to instrument source code or object code to emit events during execution to an observer. - Program execution guidance to expose errors, for example randomness. - Dynamic testing techniques based on dynamic feed-back. - Program correction on-the-fly, based on violation of a specification during program execution. Submissions should be sent to one of the organizers. Accepted abstracts should be extended to at least 10 pages in order to be published in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcs together with papers from four other Post-CAV workshops. DATES: Submissions: May 25, 2001 Notification: June 10, 2001 Final papers: June 30, 2001 Workshop: July 23, 2001 WEBSITE: http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/rv PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Saddek Bensalem (VERIMAG, France) Rance Cleaveland (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA) Michael Ernst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA) Patrice Godefroid (Bell Laboratories, USA) Gerard Holzmann (Bell Laboratories, USA) Jim Larus (Microsoft Research, USA) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA) John Rushby (SRI International, USA) Joseph Sifakis (VERIMAG, France) Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Klaus Havelund (NASA Ames Research Center/Kestrel Technology, USA) Grigore Rosu (NASA Ames Research center/RIACS, USA) LOCATION: The workshop will most likely be held at Jussieu University in the heart of Paris: http://www.jussieu.fr/ http://www.jussieu.fr/coeur.html