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12th International Workshop on
Automated Verification of Critical Systems

18-20th September 2012
Bamberg, Germany
http://www.swt-bamberg.de/AVoCS2012/
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The aim of AVoCS 2011 is to contribute to the interaction and exchange
of ideas among members of the international research community on
tools and techniques for the verification of critical systems. The
subject is to be interpreted broadly and inclusively. It covers all
aspects of automated verification, including model checking, theorem
proving, SAT/SMT constraint solving, abstract interpretation, and
refinement pertaining to various types of critical systems which need
to meet stringent dependability requirements (safety-critical,
security-critical, business-critical, performance-critical, etc).
Contributions that describe different techniques, or industrial case
studies are encouraged. The technical programme will consist of
invited and contributed talks and also allow for short presentations
of ongoing work. The workshop will be relatively informal, with an
emphasis on discussion.

Invited Speakers

Jon Holt (Atego, UK)
Jaco van de Pol (U. Twente, NL)

Topics include (but are not limited to)

Model Checking
Automatic and Interactive Theorem Proving
SAT, SMT or Constraint Solving for Verification
Abstract Interpretation
Specification and Refinement
Requirements Capture and Analysis
Verification of Software and Hardware
Verification of Security-Critical Systems
Specification and Verification of Fault Tolerance and Resilience
Probabilistic and Real-Time Systems
Dependable Systems
Verified System Development
Industrial Applications

Important Dates

Submission (full papers): 1st June 2012
Notification (full papers): 16th July 2012
Submission (short papers): 23rd July 2012
Notification (short papers): 25th July 2012
Registration deadline (including accommodation): 30th July 2012
Submission of final versions: 3rd August 2012
Workshop: 18-20th September 2012

Submission Details

Full Papers: Submissions of full papers to the workshop must not have
been published or be concurrently considered for publication
elsewhere. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on the
basis of originality, contribution to the field, technical and
presentation quality, and relevance to the workshop. Final versions of
the papers must be written in English and not exceed 15 pages
(excluding the title page) in the EASST LaTeX or MS Word format
(http://eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de/template/).

Short Contributions: AVoCS'12 encourages the submissions of short
contributions in order to stimulate discussions at the workshop.
Reports on ongoing work or surveys on work published elsewhere are
welcome. The Programme Committee will select short contributions on
the basis of submitted abstracts according to significance and general
interest. Short contributions must be written in English and not
exceed 2 pages (excluding the title page) in the EASST LaTeX or MS
Word format (http://eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de/template/).

Submission Site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=avocs2012

Conference Proceedings & Special Journal Issue

At the workshop, pre-proceedings will be available in the form of a
Bamberg University Report; this report will also include the short
contributions.

After the workshop, the authors of accepted papers will have about one
month in order to revise their papers for publication in the workshop
post-proceedings which will appear in the Electronic Communications of
the EASST.

We will invite authors of a selection of the best papers presented at
the workshop to submit extended versions of their work for publication
in a special issue of Elsevier's journal Science of Computer
Programming.

Program Committee

Jiri Barnat (Masaryk U. Brno, CZ)
Radu Calinescu (Aston U., UK)
Javier Esparza (TU Munich, D)
Michael Goldsmith (U. Oxford, UK)
Constance Heitmeyer (Naval Research Laboratory, US)
Keijo Heljanko (Aalto U., FI)
Holger Hermanns (U. Saarbrücken, D)
Cliff Jones (Newcastle U., UK)
Gerald Lüttgen (U. Bamberg, D, Co-Chair)
Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, F, Co-Chair)
Alice Miller (U. Glasgow, UK)
Markus Roggenbach (Swansea U., UK)
Thomas Santen (Microsoft Research Aachen, D)
Tayssir Touili (LIAFA Paris, F)
Helen Treharne (U. Surrey, UK)
Laurent Voisin (Systerel, F)

Steering Committee

Michael Goldsmith (U. Oxford, UK)
Stephan Merz (INRIA Nancy & LORIA, F)
Markus Roggenbach (Swansea U., UK)

Organization Committee

Gerald Lüttgen
David White
Alexandra Homer