ATVA 2009

7th International Symposium on     Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis 14-16 October 2009, Macao SAR, China 

The purpose of ATVA is to promote research on theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and synthesis in East Asia by providing a forum for interaction between the regional and the international research communities and industry in the field. The previous six events were held in Taiwan (2003-5), Beijing (2006), Tokyo (2007) and Seoul (2008). The proceedings of ATVA 2009 will be published by Springer as a volume in the LNCS series.

SCOPE:

The scope of interest is intentionally kept broad; it includes:

-- Theory useful for providing designers with automated support for obtaining correct software or hardware systems, including both functional and non functional aspects, such as: theory of (timed   and hybrid) automata, process calculi, Petri-nets, concurrency theory, compositionality, model-checking, automated theorem proving, synthesis, performance analysis, correctness-by-construction, infinite state systems, abstract interpretation, decidability results, parametric analysis or   synthesis.

-- Applications of theory in engineering methods and other particular domains and handling of practical problems occurring in tools, such as analysis and verification tools, synthesis tools, model transformation tools. Techniques of reducing complexity of   verification by abstraction, improved representations. Methods and tools in handling user level notations, such as UML. Practice in   industrial applications to hardware, software or real-time and embedded systems. Case studies, illustrating the usefulness of   tools or a particular approach are also welcome.

Theory papers should be motivated by practical problems and applications should be rooted in sound theory. We are interested both in algorithms and in methods and tools for integrating formal approaches into industrial practice.

Submissions: Submissions to the conference must not have been published or be concurrently considered for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be judged on the basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and presentation quality, and relevance to the conference. ATVA 2009 calls for two types of contributions: RESEARCH PAPERS and TOOL DEMONSTRATION PAPERS. Both types of contributions will appear in the proceedings and have oral presentations at the conference. Papers should be written in English in LNCS format.

Research papers: Research papers should contain original research, and sufficient detail to assess the mer its and relevance of the contribution. Submissions reporting on industrial case studies are welcome, and should describe both strengths and weaknesses in sufficient depth. Research papers should be no more than 15 pages.

Tool demonstration papers: Tool demonstration papers present tools based on aforementioned theories or fall into the above application areas. Tool demonstration papers allow researchers to stress the technical and practical side, illustrating how one can apply the theoretic contributions in practice. Tool demonstration papers should be no more than 6 pages.

Submission Procedure: Further information and instruction about submission can be found at the conference website http://www.iist.unu.edu/atva09.

Important Dates: paper submission: 1 May 2009, notification of acceptance: 15 June 2009, final copy for proceedings: 29 June 2009, ATVA 2009: 14-16 October 2009.

General Chair Chris George, UNU-IIST, Macao

Program Chairs Zhiming Liu, UNU-IIST, Macao Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg University, DK

Organisation Chair Antonio Cerone, UNU-IIST, Macao

Publicity Chair Jun Pang, U. Luxembourg

Workshop Chair Xu Wang, UNU-IIST, Macao

Sponsored by: UNU-IIST, University of Macau Macao Polytechnic Institute

Associated Events -- Workshops, 11-12 October 2009 -- Tutorials, 13 October 2009

Keynote Speakers Mark Greenstreet (U. British Columbia) Orna Grumberg (Technion) Bill Roscoe (Oxford University)

PC Members Rajeev Alur (U. Pennsylvania, US) Christel Baier (TU Dresdenn, ED) Jonathan Billington (U. South Australia) Laurent Fribourg ((CNRS, FR) Masahiro Fujita (U. Tokyo, JP) Susanne Graf (VERIMAG, FR) Mark Greenstreet (U. British Columbia) Wolfgang Grieskamp (Microsoft Research, US) Teruo Higashino (U. Osaka, JP) Moonzoo Kim (KAIST, KR) Orna Kupferman (U. Hebrew, IL) Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford U., UK) Insup Lee (U. Pennsylvania, US) Xuandong Li (U. Nanjing, CN) Shaoying Liu (U. Hosei, JP) Hanne Nielson (DTU, DK) Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs, US) Ernst-Ruediger Olderog (U. Oldenburg, DE) Jun Pang (U. Luxembourg ) Doron A. Peled (U. Warwick, UK) Abhik Roychoudhury (National U. Singapore) Natarajan Shankar (SRI, US) Irek Ulidowski (U. Leicester, UK) Mahesh Viswanathan (UIUC, US) Farn Wang (National Taiwan University) Ji Wang (NLPDS, CN Xu Wang (UNU-IIST, Macao) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University) Wang Yi (Uppsala University, SE) Tomohiro Yoneda (NII, JP) Wenhui Zhang (CAS, CN)

Steering Committee E. Allen Emerson (U. Texas-Austin) Teruo Higashino (Osaka University) Oscar H. Ibarra (U. California-S.Barbara) Insup Lee (U. Pennsylvania) Doron A. Peled (U. Warwick, Univ. Bar Ilan) Farn Wang (National Taiwan University) Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University) This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP