[Om-announce] WING 2014: Invariant Generation

[Carlo Alberto Furia]

[Apologies for multiple postings]

Call for Contributions

WING 2014: 5th International Workshop on Invariant Generation

July 23, 2014. Vienna, Austria

http://vsl2014.at/meetings/WING-index.html


** Important Dates: **

Submission deadline:  April 15, 2014
Notification of acceptance:  May 8, 2014
Workshop:  July 23, 2014


** About WING **

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.


** Paper Submissions **

We encourage submissions on work in progress, new ideas, tools under 
development, as well as work by PhD students, to be presented at WING 
2014. Submissions should adhere to the EasyChair document class, and be 
between 6 and 15 pages.

Submissions need not be original. Extended versions of submissions may 
have been published previously, or submitted concurrently with or after 
WING 2014 to another workshop, conference or a journal.


** Program Committee **

Stephan Falke (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT))
Carlo A. Furia (ETH Zurich)
Arie Gurfinkel (Software Engineering Institute, CMU)
Dilian Gurov (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH))
Reiner Hähnle (TU Darmstadt) -- chair
Andrew Ireland (Heriot-Watt University)
Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
Einar Broch Johnsen (University of Oslo) -- chair
Laura Kovacs (Chalmers University of Technology)
Enric Rodríguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia)
Philipp Ruemmer (Uppsala University, Department of IT)