[Om-announce] VSTTE 2010: Verified Software -- Second Call for Papers

[Gudmund Grov]

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement)

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Third International Conference on Verified Software:
            Theories, Tools, and Experiments

          Call for Conference & Workshop Papers

                   Edinburgh, Scotland

              August 16th-19th, 2010

         http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10

SPONSORS
           National Science Foundation (NSF)
           EPSRC
           Microsoft Research
           Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA)

To become a sponsor see:
         http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/vstte10/Sponsors.html

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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. VSTTE is open to anyone who is interested in participating
actively in the VSI effort.

SCOPE
The goal of this conference is to advance the state of the art in
the science and technology of software verification through the
interaction of theory development, tool evolution, and experimental
validation.  Authors are encouraged to submit work in progress,
particularly if the work involves collaboration, theory unification,
and tool integration.  Topics of interest include

    requirements modeling
    specification languages
    specification/verification 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
    integrated verification environments

We also encourage researchers to submit challenges in theory,
formalization, systems verification, code verification, and
applications. Contributions relating to existing challenges
will also be welcomed, i.e.

    * POPLMark (http://tinyurl.com/poplmark)
    * Tokeneer (http://www.adacore.com/home/products/sparkpro/tokeneer)
    * POSIX file system (http://tinyurl.com/qyzqk9)
    * medical devices (http://tinyurl.com/pnztqb)

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 (Riccarton 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!

INVITED SPEAKERS
   * Tom Ball (Microsoft Research, Redmond)
   * Gerwin Klein (National ICT Australia)
   * Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge)

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. 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

            https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=vstte10.

Submissions that arrive late, are not in the proper format, or are too
long will not be considered.  The proceedings of VSTTE 2010 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.

WORKSHOPS
In addition to the main conference, VSTTE will host two workshops on
August 19th -- a workshop on Theory chaired by David Naumann and
Hongseok Yang and a workshop on Tools & Experiments chaired by Tiziana
Margaria and Rajeev Joshi. 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.

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 23 2010:      Final workshop paper version
August 16-18 2010: Main conference
August 19 2010:    Workshops

CONFERENCE CHAIR
Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University; A.Ireland at hw.ac.uk)

PROGRAM CHAIRS
Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary, University of London; ohearn at dcs.qmul.ac.uk)
Gary T. Leavens (University of Central Florida; leavens at eecs.ucf.edu)
Sriram Rajamani (Microsoft Research; sriram at microsoft.com)

WORKSHOP GENERAL CHAIR
Peter Mueller (ETH Zurich; peter.mueller at inf.ethz.ch)

THEORY WORKSHOP CHAIRS
David Naumann  (Stevens Institute of Technology; dnaumann at stevens.edu)
Hongseok Yang (Queen Mary, University of London;  hyang at dcs.qmul.ac.uk)

TOOLS & EXPERIMENTS WORKSHOP CHAIRS
Rajeev Joshi (NASA JPL; rajeev.joshi at jpl.nasa.gov)
Tiziana Margaria (Universität Potsdam; margaria at cs.uni-potsdam.de)

PUBLICITY CHAIR
Gudmund Grov (Edinburgh University; ggrov at inf.ed.ac.uk)

LOCAL ARRANGEMENT CHAIR
Ewen Maclean (Heriot-Watt University; E.A.H.Maclean at 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


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