VMCAI 2009: Call for Papers

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VMCAI 2009

The Tenth International Conference on
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

Savannah, GA, USA, January 18-20, 2009


Conference website: http://cs.uni-muenster.de/vmcai09

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VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation,
facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of
hybrid methods. VMCAI'09 is co-located with the POPL'09 conference.

The program of VMCAI'09 will consist of invited lectures, tutorials,
refereed research papers, and tool demonstrations. Research
contributions can report new results as well as experimental
evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include,
but are not limited to:

program verification program certification
model checking debugging techniques
abstract interpretation abstract domains
static analysis type systems
deductive methods optimization

Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent,
constraint, functional, imperative, logic and object-oriented programming.
Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English,
and
must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that
are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed
proceedings. The proceedings will be published by Springer in
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

The page limit for submissions is 15 pages in Springer's LNCS format.
Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the
discretion
of the reviewers. Formatting style files can be found at:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Please visit the conference website for more information.

Invited Speakers:

Allen Emerson, co-recipient of 2008 Turing Award (Univ. of Texas):
Model Checking: Progress and Problems

Aarti Gupta (NEC Labs, Princeton):
Model Checking Concurrent Multi-Threaded Programs

Mooly Sagiv (Tel-Aviv University):
Thread Modular Shape Analysis

Invited Tutorials:

Byron Cook (Microsoft Research, Cambridge):
Proving Program Termination and Liveness

Veronique Cortier (LORIA, CNRS, Nancy):
Verification of Security Protocols

Important Dates:

Submission Deadline: Friday, August 22, 2008
Notification of Acceptance: Friday, October 6, 2008
Final Version Due: Friday, October 31, 2008
Conference: January 18-20, 2009

Program Chairs:

Neil Jones, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Markus Müller-Olm, Universität Münster, Germany

Program Committee:

Christel Baier, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Ahmed Bouajjani, Université Paris 7, France
Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Patrick Cousot, École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Javier Esparza, Technische Universität München, Germany
Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL, USA
Michael Huth, Imperial College London, Great-Britain
Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
Sorin Lerner, University of California, San Diego, USA
Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Pete Manolios, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
Amir Pnueli, New York University, USA
C. R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, USA
Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI, Saarbrücken, Germany
Helmut Seidl, Technische Universität München, Germany
Henny Sipma, Stanford University, USA
Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
Greta Yorsh, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Steering Committee:

Tino Cortesi, Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
Patrick Cousot, École Normale Supérieure, France
E. Allen Emerson, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Giorgio Levi, University of Pisa, Italy
Andreas Podelski, Universität Freiburg, Germany
Thomas W. Reps, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
David Schmidt, Kansas State University, USA
Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Sponsors:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS)
Microsoft Research