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Haifa Verification Conference 2008

IBM Haifa Labs


Program

October 27-30, 2008
Organized by IBM Haifa Research Lab



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  • Tutorial

    October 28, 2008

    8:30 Registration

    9:00 Opening Remarks,
    Oded Cohn, IBM Haifa Research Lab

    Session I

    Keynote Talk

    9:30 Hazards of Verification,
    Daniel Jackson, MIT

    10:30 Efficient Decision Procedure for Bounded Integer Non-linear Operations Using SMT(LIA),
    Malay Ganai

    11:00 Coffee Break

    Session II

    11:30 Synthesizing Test Models from Test Cases,
    Antti Jääskeläinen, Antti Kervinen, Mika Katara, Antti Valmari and Heikki Virtanen

    12:00 A Meta Heuristic for Effectively Detecting Concurrency Errors,
    Neha Rungta and Eric Mercer

    12:30 Evaluating Workloads Using Comparative Functional Coverage,
    Yoram Adler, Dale Blue, Thomas Conti, Richard Prewitt and Shmuel Ur

    13:00 Iterative Delta Debugging,
    Cyrille Valentin Artho

    13:30 Lunch

    Session III

    14:45 Invited talk: We are Never Done: Resiliency Needs of Highly Resilient General Purpose Computing Systems,
    Geoffrey Miller, IBM

    15:30 Statistical Model Checking of Mixed-Analog Circuits with an Application to a Third Order Delta- Sigma Modulator,
    Edmund Clarke, Alexandre Donzé, and Axel Legay

    16:00 Coffee Break

    Session IV

    16:30 Tool Presentation: SeeCode - A Code Review Plug-in for Eclipse,
    Moran Shochat, Orna Raz and Eitan Farchi

    16:45 Tool Presentation: Progress in Automated Software Defect Prediction,
    Elaine Weyuker and Thomas Ostrand

    17:00 Significant Diagnostic Counterexamples in Probabilistic Model Checking,
    Miguel E. Andrés, Pedro R. D'Argenio and Peter van Rossum

    17:30 A Uniform Approach to Three-Valued Semantics for µ-Calculus on Abstractions of Hybrid Automata,
    Kerstin Bauer, Raffaella Gentilini and Klaus Schneider

    18:00 Cocktail Party


    October 29, 2008

    Session I

    9:15 Best Paper and HVC Award Presentations

    9:30 HVC Award Winner: Interpolation with Applications in Formal Verification,
    Ken McMillan

    10:15 Invited Talk: Is Verification Getting Too Complex?,
    Yoav Hollander, Cadence

    11:00 Coffee Break

    Session II
    Session chair: Orna Grumberg


    11:30 Panel: Coverage Metrics Across the Verification Domain

    13:15 Lunch

    Session III

    14:30 Invited talk: Can Mutation Analysis Help Fix Our Broken Coverage Metrics?,
    Brian Bailey

    15:15 Automatic Boosting of Cross-Product Coverage Using Bayesian Networks,
    Dorit Baras, Avi Ziv, and Laurent Fournier

    15:45 Simulation-based Verification of System-on-Chip Designs through an Automated Specification-based Testcase Generation,
    Christoph M. Kirchsteiger, Christoph Trummer, Christian Steger, Reinhold Weiss and Markus Pistauer

    16:15 Coffee Break

    16:30 Caesarea Excursion and Dinner

    October 30, 2008

    Session I

    Keynote Talk

    9:15 Automata-Theoretic Model Checking Revisited,
    Moshe Vardi, Rice University

    10:15 A Framework for Inherent Vacuity,
    Orna Kupferman, Dana Fisman, Moshe Vardi and Sarai Sheinvald

    10:45 Coffee Break

    Session II
    Session chairs: Ziyad Hanna and Warren Hunt


    11:15 Post-Silicon Verification (Invited Session)

    13:15 Lunch

    Session III

    14:30 Invited talk: Practical Considerations Concerning HL-to -RT Equivalence Checking,
    Carl Pixley, Synopsys

    15:15 Tool Presentation: User-Friendly Model Checking: Automatically Configuring Algorithms with RuleBase/PE,
    Ziv Nevo

    15:30 Tool Presentation: D-TSR: Parallelizing SMT-based BMC Using Tunnels over Distributed Framework,
    Malay Ganai and Weihong Li

    15:45 Coffee Break

    Session IV

    16:15 Linear-time Reductions of Resolution Proofs,
    Omer Barilan, Oded Fuhrmann, Shlomo Hoory, Ohad Shacham and Ofer Strichman

    16:45 Structural Contradictions,
    Cindy Eisner and Dana Fisman

    17:15 Closing Remarks

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