ATVA 2015

Scope

ATVA 2015 solicits high-quality submissions in areas related to the theory and practice of automated analysis and verification of hardware and software systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems
• Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state and parameterized system
• Program analysis and software verification
• Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and embedded systems
• Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced/weighted and probabilistic systems
• Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction/refinement techniques for analysis and verification
• Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability
• Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology
• Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent hardware/software systems
• Verification in industrial practice
• Applications and case studies

Theory papers should preferably be motivated by practical problems, and applications should be based on sound theory and should solve problems of practical interest.

Submission

ATVA invites research contributions in two categories:

• Regular research papers (with 16 pages page limit, including references ) and
• Tool papers (with 5 pages page limit, not counting references )

Contributions must be written in English and in LNCS format, and must present original research that is unpublished and not submitted elsewhere (conferences or journals). The proceedings of ATVA 2015 will be published by Springer as a volume in the series of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A special journal issue of Acta Informatica is also being planned for selected papers.

Proofs and details omitted due to space constraints may be put in an appendix. Any such additional material will be read by reviewers/program committee members at their discretion. Authors are therefore urged to include details necessary for evaluation of the technical merit of their work within the prescribed page limits.

Tool papers must include information about a URL from where the tool can be downloaded or accessed on-line for evaluation. The linked website must also contain a set of examples, and a user’s manual that describes usage of the tool through examples. In case the tool needs to be downloaded and installed, the website must also contain a document clearly giving instructions for installation of the tool on Linux/Windows/MacOS. Authors must upload PDF files of their papers through EasyChair.

Accepted papers in both categories will be published by Springer as a LNCS volume. At least one author of each accepted paper must also register for the conference and present the paper.

Conference Venue

The ATVA 2015 conference will be held at the Maths Building, East China Normal University (old campus).

See the participation page for the map and nearby accommodation.

General Chair

• Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China)

Steering Committee

• E. Allen Emerson (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
• Teruo Higashino (Osaka University, Japan)
• Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
• Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
• Farn Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)

Programme Co-Chairs

• Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany)
• Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China)
• Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Publicity Chairs

• David N. Jansen (Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands)
• Huibiao Zhu (East China Normal University, China)

Workshop Chair

• Jun Sun (Singapore University of Technology and Design, SG)

Programme Committee

• Alessandro Abate (University of Oxford, UK)
• Erika Ábrahám (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Michael Backes (Saarland University, Germany)
• Christel Baier (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
• Ahmed Bouajjani (University Paris Diderot, FR)
• Tevfik Bultan (University of California at Santa Barbara, USA)
• Franck Cassez (NICTA, Australia)
• Rance Cleaveland (University of Maryland, USA)
• Hung Dang-Van (UET, Vietnam National University, Vietnam)
• Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany)
• Mark Greenstreet (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Holger Hermanns (Saarland University, Germany)
• Pao-Ann Hsiung (National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan)
• Alan Hu (University of British Columbia, Canada)
• Michael Huth (Imperial College London, UK)
• Jie-Hong Roland Jiang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University, Israel)
• Kim Guldstrand Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
• Xuandong Li (Nanjing University, China)
• Annabelle McIver (Macquarie University, AU)
• Ken McMillan (Microsoft, USA)
• Madhavan Mukund (Chennai Mathematical Institute, India)
• Flemming Nielson (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
• Mizuhito Ogawa (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
• Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA Saclay and LIX, FR)
• Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
• Geguang Pu (East China Normal University, China)
• Jean-François Raskin (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
• Kristin Y. Rozier (NASA’s Ames Research Center, USA)
• Sven Schewe (Liverpool University, UK)
• Scott Smolka (Stony Brook University, USA)
• Farn Wang (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
• Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
• Wang Yi (Uppsala University, Sweden)
• Naijun Zhan (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
• Lijun Zhang (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences)