[Please post - apologies for multiple copies.] ---------------------------------------------------- WING 2012 - 4th International Workshop on INvariant Generation http://cs.nyu.edu/acsys/wing2012/ June 30, 2012 Manchester, UK (a satellite Workshop of IJCAR 2012) ---------------------------------------------------- --- First Call for Papers --- General ------- 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. Scope ----- We encourage submissions presenting work in progress, tools under development, as well as work by PhD students, such that the workshop can become a forum for active dialogue between the groups involved in this new research area. Relevant topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * Program analysis and verification * Inductive Assertion Generation * Inductive Proofs for Reasoning about Loops * Applications to Assertion Generation using the following tools: - Abstract Interpretation, - Static Analysis, - Model Checking, - Theorem Proving, - Theory Formation, - Algebraic Techniques * Tools for inductive assertion generation and verification * Alternative techniques for reasoning about loops Committee ----------------- Program Chairs: * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Program Committee: * Clark Barrett (New York University, USA) * Nikolaj Bjorner (Microsoft Research, USA) * Gudmund Grov (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Ashutosh Gupta (IST Austria) * Bart Jacobs (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) * Moa Johansson (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Laura Kovacs (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * David Monniaux (VERIMAG, France) * Enric Rodriguez Carbonell (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain) * Helmut Veith (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) * Thomas Wies (New York University, USA) Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: April 06, 2012 Notification of acceptance: May 04, 2012 Final version due: June 08, 2012 Workshop: June 30, 2012 Submission ---------- WING 2012 encourages submissions in the following two categories: * Original papers: contain original research (simultaneous submissions are not allowed) and sufficient detail to assess the merits and relevance of the submission. Given the informal style of the workshop, papers describing work in progress, with sufficient detail to assess the contribution, are also welcome. Original papers should not exceed 15 pages. * Extended abstracts: contain preliminary reports of work in progress, case studies, or tool descriptions. These will be judged based on the expected level of interest for the WING community. They will be included in the CEUR-WS proceedings. Extended abstracts should not exceed 5 pages. All submissions should conform to Springer's LNCS format. Formatting style files can be found at http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Technical details may be included in an appendix to be read at the reviewers' discretion and to be omitted in the final version. Please prepare your submission in accordance with the rules described above and submit a pdf file via https://www.easychair.org/?conf=wing2012 Publication ----------- All submissions will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. Accepted contributions will be published in archived electronic notes, as a volume of CEUR Workshop Proceedings. A special issue of the Journal of Science of Computer Programming with extended versions of selected papers will be published after the workshop. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.