TACAS 2000 - Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION

Programme

TACAS is a forum for researchers, developers and users interested in rigorously based tools for the construction and analysis of systems. The conference serves to bridge the gaps between different communities --- including but not limited to those devoted to formal methods, real-time, software engineering, communications protocols, hardware, theorem proving, and programming languages --- that have traditionally had little interaction but share common interests in, and techniques for, tool development. In particular, by providing a venue for the discussion of common problems, heuristics, algorithms, data structures and methodologies, TACAS aims to support researchers in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, flexibility and efficiency of TOOLs for building systems.

Tool descriptions and case studies with a conceptual message and theoretical papers with a clear link to tool construction are particularily encouraged. The specific topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following.

• verification and construction techniques;
• compositional and refinement-based methodologies;
• test generation;
• theorem-proving and model checking;
• analytical techniques for real-time, hybrid and safety-critical systems;
• tool environments and tool architectures;
• applications and case studies.

All accepted contributions will receive the same space in the conference schedule and in the proceedings, and technical support will be provided for allowing presenters to demonstrate their tools during their talks. Facilities will also be available for informal tool demonstrations during the conference. As TACAS addresses a heterogeneous audience, potential authors are strongly encouraged to write about their ideas in general and jargon-independent, rather than application- and domain-specific, terms.

Program committee

• Tom Ball (USA), tball@research.bell-labs.com
• Ed Brinksma (NL), brinksma@cs.utwente.nl
• Rance Cleaveland (USA), rance@cs.sunysb.edu
• Matthew Dwyer (USA), dwyer@cis.ksu.edu
• Fausto Giunchiglia (I), fausto@irst.itc.it
• Susanne Graf (F, chair), Susanne.Graf@imag.fr
• Constance L. Heitmeyer (USA), heitmeye@itd.nrl.navy.mil
• Gerard Holzmann (USA), gerard@research.bell-labs.com
• Claude Jard (F), Claude.Jard@irisa.fr
• Joost N. Kok (NL), joost@cs.leidenuniv.nl
• Kim Larsen (DK), kgl@cs.auc.dk
• Tiziana Margaria (D), Tiziana.Margaria@cs.uni-dortmund.de
• Michael Schwartzbach (DK, chair), mis@brics.dk
• Bernhard Steffen (D), Bernhard.Steffen@cs.uni-dortmund.de
• Perdita Stevens (GB), Perdita.Stevens@dcs.ed.ac.uk
• Wang Yi (Sweden), yi@docs.uu.se

Chairwoman

Susanne Graf	tel : (+33) (0)4	76 63 48 52
VERIMAG		76 63 48 48 (secr)
Centre Equation	fax : (+33) (0)4	76 63 48 50
2, avenue de la Vignate	http://www-verimag.imag.fr/PEOPLE/Susanne.Graf
F - 38610 Gieres	e-mail: Susanne.Graf@imag.fr
Further Information:	http://www-verimag.imag.fr/TACAS2000

Invited Speaker