ICLP
2001 workshop SAVE 2001
Specification, Analysis
and Validation
for Emerging
Technologies
in Computational Logic
Dec 1, 2001 , Coral Beach
Hotel and Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
Submission Deadline: August
25
Overview
The huge increase in interconnectivity we have witnessed in the
last decade has boosted the development of systems which are often large-scale,
distributed, time-critical, and possibly acting in an unreliable
or malicious environment. Furthermore, software and hardware components
are often mobile, and have to interact with a potentially arbitrary number
of other entities.
These systems require solid formal techniques for their verification
and analysis. In this respect, computational logic plays an increasingly
important role, both providing formal methods for proving system's correctness
and tools - e.g. using techniques like constraint programming and theorem
proving - for verifying their properties.
In addition, computational logic is gaining importance as tool for the
specification of (part) of these systems. For instance, one can think at
the specification, in a form of temporal logic, of a communication protocol.
Such specification offers the advantage that one can reason about it using
formal methods, and at the same time it is often easily executable by rewriting
it into a logic-based programming language.
Extending and shifting slightly from the scope of the predecessors (on
verification and logic languages) held in the context of past editions
of ICLP, the aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers
interested in the use of
computational logicas
a tool for the specification, analysis and validation of systems, with
particular emphasis on (but not restricted to) emerging technologies like
World
Wide Web and E-Commerce, (protocols for) Smart Cards and Mobile Telephony,
Wireless Technology, Hybrid Systems, Real-Time and Distributed systems
etc.
Topics
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:
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Specification languages and rapid prototyping:
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Logic programming and its extensions
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First-order, constructive, modal and temporal logic
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Constraints
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Type theory
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Analysis:
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Abstract interpretation
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Static analysis
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Validation:
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Simulation and testing
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Deductive methods
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Model checking
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Theorem proving
The preferred issues include, but are not limited to:
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Mobility: specification and verification of mobile code.
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Security: access rights, information flow, and security protocols.
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Interaction, coordination, negotiation, communication and exchange on the
Web.
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Open and infinite-state systems.
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Real-time systems.
Important Dates:
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Deadline for submissions: August 25, 2001.
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Notification of acceptance/rejection: September 15, 2001.
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Final papers due: October 5, 2001.
Authors should submit papers of at most 15 pages,
in postscript format, formatted for A4 paper,
to
Giorgio Delzanno (giorgio@disi.unige.it)
by August 25, 2001.
The proceedings will be published in electronic format. A printed version
will be distributed to all
participants of the workshop. On the basis of the number and quality
of the submissions, we could also consider the possibility of inviting
submissions for a special issue of an international journal dedicated to
the workshop.
Organization
Workshop Organizers/PC Chairs:
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Giorgio Delzanno
Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione
Universita' di Genova
e-mail: giorgio@disi.unige.it
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Sandro Etalle
Department of Computer Science
University of Twente and CWI
e-mail: etalle@cs.utwente.nl
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Maurizio Gabbrielli
Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica
Universita' di Udine
e-mail: gabbri@dimi.uniud.it
Program Committee:
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Radhia Cousot, CNRS & École Polytechnique,
France
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Giorgio Delzanno, University of Genova, Italy
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Sandro Etalle, University of Twente and CWI, The
Netherlands
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Maurizio Gabbrielli, University of Udine, Italy
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Thierry Massart, University of Brussels, Belgium
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Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
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Andreas Podelski, Max Planck Institute, Germany
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Sriram Rajamani, Microsoft Research, USA
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Jean-Francois Raskin, University of Brussels, Belgium