********************************************************* * * * VSTTE 2009 * * * * Workshop on Verified Software * * Theory Tools and Experiments * * * * (affiliated with Formal Methods Week) * * * * November 2, 2009 * * Eindhoven, the Netherlands * * http://vstte09.lri.fr/ * * * * Deadline for submissions: Sep 11, 2009 * * * ********************************************************* FM 2009 is the sixteenth in a series of symposia of the Formal Methods Europe association, and the second one that is organized as a world congress. Ten years after FM'99, the 1st World Congress, the formal methods communities from all over the world will once again have an opportunity to meet. FM 2009 will be both an opportunity to celebrate, and an opportunity to join in when enthusiastic researchers and practitioners from a diversity of backgrounds and schools come together to discuss their ideas and experiences. The workshop on Verified Software: Theories, Tools, and Experiments (VSTTE 2009) will take place on November the 2nd. The focus of this workshop will be on tools, as previous VSTTE conferences in Zurich and Toronto emphasised theories and experiments. Consisting of contributed papers and invited talks, the workshop will focus on the tools behind the development of systematic methods for specifying, building, and verifying high-quality software. This includes topics like: * Program logic * Specification and verification techniques * Tool support for specification languages * Tool for various design methodologies * Tool integration and plug-ins * Automation in formal verification * Tool comparisons and benchmark repositories * Combination of tools and techniques (e.g. formal vs. semiformal, software specification vs. engineering techniques) * Customizing tools for particular applications Papers about tool architectures, and their achievements are most welcome. The contributed papers, which should report on previously unpublished work, can reflect current and preliminary work in areas of software verification. New technical results, overviews of new developments in software verification projects, short papers accompanying tool demonstrations, as well as position papers on how to further advance the goal of verified software are all welcome. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE ==================== VSTTE proceedings will be published as a special issue of the Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT) journal. Submitted papers should not have been submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers should use Springer-Verlag's STTT package ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/svjour/sttt/, and should not exceed 15 pages including appendices. Papers are processed through the EasyChair conference management system. IMPORTANT DATES =============== Submission deadline September 11, 2009, 11:59pm Samoa time (UTC-11) Notification of acceptance October 2, 2009 Final version October 16, 2009 PROGRAM COMMITTEE ================= * David Deharbe, Dimap UFRN, Brazil * Dino Distefano, Queen Mary University of London, UK * Jean-Christophe Filliâtre (co-chair), CNRS, France * Leo Freitas (co-chair), University of York, UK * John McDermott, Naval Research Laboratory, USA * Yannick Moy, AdaCore, France * Arnaud Venet, Kestrel Technology, USA CONTACT ======= Leo Freitas, leo@cs.york.ac.uk Department of Computer Science University of York, YO10 5DD York, UK Tel: (+44) (0) 1904 434753 Jean-Christophe Filliatre, Jean-Christophe.Filliatre@lri.fr CNRS / INRIA Saclay - Ile-de-france - ProVal Parc Orsay Universite, batiment N 4, rue Jacques Monod 91893 Orsay Cedex FRANCE Tel: (+33) (0)1 74 85 42 27 FURTHER INFORMATION =================== Further information will be put on the workshop web-page http://vstte09.lri.fr/.