Call for Papers RV'02 Second Workshop on Runtime Verification http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/rv2002 ************************* *** Extended deadline *** *** May 25 *** ************************* 26 July, 2002 Copenhagen, Denmark Affiliated with CAV'02 http://floc02.diku.dk/CAV OBJECTIVES The objective of RV'02 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. INVITED SPEAKER Professor Insup Lee Department of Computer and Information Science University of Pennsylvania, USA http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~lee Insup Lee has been involved in the MAC runtime verification project: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~rtg/mac and is currently working on test-case generation. SUBMISSIONS The full submission should be sent by ** May 25 **. Submissions should be up to 20 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. This includes real-time logics and automata. - Predictive analysis: from one execution trace predicting possible errors in other traces. - Event extraction: how to instrument source code or object code to emit events during execution to an observer. - Tracing and dynamic analysis of concurrent/distributed systems, including multi-threading analysis, such as deadlock and data race detection. - Program behavior correction on-the-fly, based on violation of a specification during program execution. - Program execution guidance to expose errors. - Synergy with other program analysis techniques such as testing, model checking and static analysis. Abstracts and submissions should be sent to one of the organizers. Accepted papers will be published in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/entcs. Selected papers will be published in the journal Formal Methods In System Design, Kluwer Academic Publishers: http://www.kluweronline.com/issn/0925-9856. DATES: Submissions: May 25, 2002 Notification: June 20, 2002 Final papers: June 30, 2002 Workshop: July 26, 2002 WEBSITE: http://ase.arc.nasa.gov/rv2002 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Saddek Bensalem (VERIMAG Laboratory) Rance Cleaveland (State University of New York at Stony Brook) Michael Ernst (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Patrice Godefroid (Bell Laboratories) Klaus Havelund (NASA Ames Research Center - Kestrel Technology) Gerard Holzmann (Bell Laboratories) Sampath Kannan (University of Pennsylvania) Jim Larus (Microsoft Research) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania) Grigore Rosu (NASA Ames Research Center - RIACS) John Rushby (SRI International) Joseph Sifakis (VERIMAG Laboratory) Reid Simmons (Carnegie Mellon University) Henny Sipma (Stanford University) Olog Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania) ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Klaus Havelund (NASA Ames Research Center - Kestrel Technology) Grigore Rosu (NASA Ames Research center - RIACS)