Call for Papers RV'03 Third Workshop on Runtime Verification http://www.cis.upenn.edu/rv2003 13 July, 2003 Boulder, Colorado, USA Affiliated with CAV'03 http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/trcenter/CAV/cav2003homepage.html OBJECTIVES The objective of RV'03 is to bring scientists from both academia and industry together to debate on how to monitor, analyze and guide the execution of programs. The ultimate longer term goal is to investigate the use of lightweight formal methods applied during the execution of programs from the following two points of view. On the one hand, whether run-time application of formal methods is a viable complement to the current heavyweight methods proving programs correct always before their execution, such as model checking and theorem proving. On the other hand, whether formality improves traditional ad-hoc monitoring techniques used in performance monitoring, distributed debugging, etc. Dynamic program monitoring and analysis can occur during testing or during operation. The subject covers several technical fields as outlined below. Dynamic Program Analysis. Techniques that gather information during program execution and use it to conclude properties about the program, either during test or in operation. Algorithms for detecting multi-threading errors in execution traces, such as deadlocks and data races. Specification Languages and Logics. Formal methods scientists have investigated logics and developed technologies that are suitable for model checking and theorem proving, but monitoring can reveal new observation-based foundational logics. Program Instrumentation. Techniques for instrumenting programs, at the source code or object code/byte code level, to emit relevant events to an observer. Program Guidance. Techniques for guiding the behavior of a program once its specification is violated. This ranges from standard exceptions to advanced planning. Guidance can also be used during testing to expose errors. Novel applications for run-time verification. Formalisms that go beyond correctness properties. This includes, but certainly is not limited to, performance properties, survivability and fault tolerance, and so on. Both foundational and practical aspects of dynamic monitoring are encouraged. INVITED SPEAKER Aloysius K. Mok Department of Computer Science University of Texas, Austin, USA http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~mok Professor Mok has developed a sophisticated framework for monitoring timing constraints. SUBMISSIONS The full submission should be sent by ** May 12 **. Submissions should be up to 20 pages, describing recent work, work-in-progress, and even highly speculative work on all aspects of dynamic program monitoring and analysis. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Specification languages and logics for program monitoring. This includes real-time logics and automata. - Predictive analysis: from one execution trace predicting possible errors in other traces. - Event extraction: how to instrument source code or object code to emit events during execution to an observer. - Tracing and dynamic analysis of concurrent/distributed systems, including multi-threading analysis, such as deadlock and data race detection. - Program behavior correction on-the-fly, based on violation of a specification during program execution. - Program execution guidance to expose errors. - Synergy with other program analysis techniques such as testing, model checking and static analysis. Abstracts and submissions should be sent to one of the organizers. We expect that accepted papers will be published in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a prestigious journal. DATES: Submissions: May 12, 2003 Notification: June 12, 2003 Final papers: June 22, 2003 Workshop: July 13, 2003 WEBSITE: http://cis.upenn.edu/rv2003/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Saddek Bensalem (VERIMAG) Rance Cleaveland (State University of New York at Stony Brook) Ann Gates (University of Texas, El Paso) Patrice Godefroid (Bell Laboratories) Gerard Holzmann (Bell Laboratories) Susan Horwitz (University of Wisconsin, Madison) Aloysius K. Mok (University of Texas, Austin) Michael Moeller (University of Oldenburg) Henny Sipma (Stanford University) Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania) Scott Stoller (State University of New York at Stony Brook) Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne) Sergio Yovine (VERIMAG) Lenore Zuck (New York University) STEERING COMMITTEE: Klaus Havelund (NASA Ames Research Center - Kestrel Technology) Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania) Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Several other PC members are pending their approval. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania) Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)