IBM Verification conference. Haifa 2005. Call for papers & tools.

14 Jul 2005, submitted by Shmuel Ur (UR at il.ibm.com)


                         Call for Papers and Tools

              Verification conference (IBM verification 2005)

                    November 13-16, 2005, Haifa, Israel

             Sponsored by Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI)

website: http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/verification2005/index.html


The Software and Verification Technologies Department at the IBM Haifa
Research Lab (HRL) cordially invites you to submit a paper to the IBM
verification conference.
The verification conference includes three full day sessions and a one day
tutorial focusing on verification technologies, software testing, and
testing of parallel systems (PADTAD). The seminars will involve the
presentation of original, peer reviewed, technical papers and lectures by
invited industrial and academic guests. Technical papers will be published
in a Springer proceeding. The event will take place at the IBM Research Lab
in Haifa, located on the University of Haifa campus, Mount Carmel, Haifa,
Israel and in Caesarea Rothschild Institute (CRI) at the University of
Haifa.
The three full-day sessions provide a forum for the academia and industry
research and development communities to share their work, exchange ideas,
discuss issues, problems, and work-in-progress, as well as future research
directions and trends. Participation is free. The official language of the
conference is English. Please confirm your participation by November 3 via
the seminar website:
http://www.haifa.il.ibm.com/Workshops/verification2005/registration.html

In addition to the call for papers, this conference has a call for tools.
Tool support is crucial for testing and verification. The IBM Verification
Conference will place specific focus on emerging tools, especially open
source and academic tools.

Tool presenters will be invited to submit a paper to a special issue of
Systems of Science of Computer Programming on testing and verification
tools, which will be dedicated to tools presented at the IBM Verification
Conference. These papers will be submitted following the conference and
will be reviewed by the conference committee. Open source and academic
tools are especially welcome, as the publication can include source code as
well.

Important dates (for papers and tools):
Paper due:
September 09, 2005
Notification of paper acceptance:                                   October
02, 2005
Camera ready copy:
October 15, 2005
Conference start (Sunday):   November 13, 2005
                                                                       
 Major topics include, but are not limited to:                         
                                                                       
                                                                       
 Verification Track Topics                                             
       Microprocessors, ASICs, SOCs, and system verification           
       Experiences with simulation-based and formal verification       
       Classification of hardware bugs                                 
       High-level test generation for functional verification          
       Simulation based verification                                   
       Emulation and acceleration techniques in verification           
       Post silicon debugging                                          
       Formal methods and their applications                           
       Verification using SAT                                          
       Verification coverage                                           
       Equivalence checking                                            
       Path analysis for verification                                  
       Design for verifiability                                        
       Hardware/software co-verification and co-testing                
       Use of ESL for verification.                                    
       Simulation-checking: assertion based, high-level rule-based,    
       reference models, and score-boards                              
       CSP applications in functional verification                     
       Hybrid simulation and formal analysis methods                   
                                                                       
 Software Testing Track Topics                                         
       Using static analysis in testing                                
       Testing throughout the lifecycle                                
       Business value (ROI) of testing                                 
       Risk-based testing                                              
       Defect prevention                                               
       Test-driven development                                         
       Developer testing                                               
       Technical review inspections                                    
       Pair testing                                                    
       Automatic test generation                                       
       Test automation frameworks                                      
       Release and stopping criteria                                   
       Testing techniques                                              
       Test measurements and metrics                                   
       Exploratory testing                                             
       Component testing                                               
       Model-based testing                                             
       Automated functional testing                                    
       Performance, stress, and load testing                           
       Testing Web services and other technologies                     
       Testing in JAVA, .NET, and other environments                   
       Testing embedded software                                       
       Testing in an agile environment                                 
                                                                       
 PADTAD Track Topics                                                   
       Tools for the testing or debugging of MPD (                     
       multi-threaded/parallel/distributed ) applications              
       Interactions between memory models and testing                  
       Test generation algorithms for MPD applications                 
       Debugging advanced network interface technologies (e.g., Myrinet,
       VIA)                                                            
       Debugging and testing MPD applications                          
       Using static analysis or formal verification to enhance debugging
       and testing of MPD applications                                 
       Detecting race conditions and deadlocks                         
       Debugging and replay of MPD applications                        
       Finding timing bugs early in the process                        
       Testing real-time MPD applications                              
       Fault injection of MPD applications                             
       Testing the fault tolerance of MPD applications                 
       Testing and debugging techniques for timing related bugs in hardware
       Pilots in applying new testing techniques to MPD applications   
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       


Conference organizers:
      Shmuel Ur (ur@il.ibm.com)
      Eyal Bin (bin@il.ibm.com)
      Eitan Farchi (farchi@il.ibm.com)
      Yaron Wolfsthal (wolfstal@il.ibm.com)
      Avi Ziv (aziv@il.ibm.com)
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
 Program chair                                                         
       Shmuel Ur, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel (ur@il.ibm.com)               
                                                                       
                                                                       



Program commettee:
                                                                       
                                                                       
                                                                       
       Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada (             
       amaral@cs.ualberta.ca)                                          
       Yosi Ben-Asher, University of Haifa, Israel (yosi@cs.haifa.ac.il)
       Valeria Bertachio, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
       Science, University of Michigan (valeria@unich.edu)             
       Angelos Bilas, University of Toronto, Canada (bilas@eecg.toronto.edu
       )                                                               
       Eyal Bin, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel (bin@il.ibm.com)               
       Roderick Bloem, Graz University of Technology (                 
       Roderick.Bloem@ist.TUGratz.at)                                  
       Alessandro Cimatti, IRST - Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e
       Tecnologica, Italy (cimatti@itc.it)                             
       Giorgio Delzanno, Universita di Genova, Italy (giorgio@disi.unige.it
       )                                                               
       Jong-Deok Choi, IBM Research, U.S.A. (jdchoi@us.ibm.com)        
       Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, U.S.A. (dongarra@cs.utk.edu)
       Orit Edelstein, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel (edelstein@il.ibm.com)   
       Eitan Farchi, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel (farchi@il.ibm.com)        
       Mike Feeley, University of British Columbia, Canada (           
       feeley@cs.ubc.ca)                                               
       Bernd Finkbeiner, Universität des Saarlandes , Germany (      
       finkbeiner@cs.uni-sb.de)                                        
       Cormac Flanagan, University of California, Santa Cruz (         
       cormac@cs.ucsc.edu)                                             
       Ian Harris, University of California, Irvine (harris@ics.uci.edu)
       Alan Hartman, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel (hartman@il.ibm.com)       
       Warren Hunt, The University of Texas, Austin (hunt@cs.utexas.edu)
       Abraham Kandel, University of South Florida, U.S.A (            
       kandel@cse.usf.edu)                                             
       Tsvi Kuflik, University of Haifa, Israel (                      
       tsvikak@mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il)                                  
       Mark Last, Ben Gurion University, Israel (mlast@bgumail.bgu.ac.il)
       Mauro Pezze, Universita degli Studi di Milano, Bicocca (        
       pezze@disco.unimib.it)                                          
       Daniel J. Quinlan, Lawrence Livermore National Labratories, U.S.A (
       dquinlan@llnl.gov)                                              
       Grigore Rosu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A (
       http://cs.uiuc.edu/grosu)                                       
       Yaron Wolfsthal , IBM Haifa Labs, Israel (wolfstal@il.ibm.com)  
       Simon Rushton, IBM England (RUSHTON@uk.ibm.com)                 
       Frank Scholz, IBM, Germany (FSCHOLZ@de.ibm.com)                 
       Assaf Schuster, Technion Institute, Haifa, Israel (             
       assaf@cs.technion.ac.il)                                        
       Scott Stoller, SUNY Stony Brook, U.S.A (stoller@cs.sunysb.edu)  
       Ofer Strichman, Technion, Israel (ofers@ie.technion.ac.il)      
       Paul Strooper, University of Queensland, Australia (            
       pstroop@itee.uq.edu.au)                                         
       Serdar Tasiran, Ko· University, Turkey (stasiran@ku.edu.tr)   
       Willem Visser, NASA, U.S.A (wvisser@email.arc.nasa.gov)         
       Avi Ziv, IBM Haifa Labs, Israel (aziv@il.ibm.com)               
                                                                       
 Local arrangements chair:                                             
       Yaniv Eytani (ieytani@cslx.haifa.ac.il)                         
                                                                       
                                                                       



Thank you,
Shmuel  Ur
IBM Master Inventor
Tel: +972-4-82962500
Fax: +972-4-8296114
email: ur@il.ibm.com


============================================================
To contribute to SEWORLD, send your submission to
<seworld@cs.colorado.edu>.

http://www.cs.colorado.edu/serl/seworld provides more
information on SEWORLD as well as a complete archive of
messages posted to the list.

To subscribe to SEWORLD, send the following (as the body of
a message) to <seworld-subscribe@cs.colorado.edu>:

     subscribe seworld <desired e-mail address>
     end

To unsubscribe from SEWORLD, send the following (as the body
of a message) to <seworld-unsubscribe@cs.colorado.edu>:

     unsubscribe seworld <registered e-mail address>
     end
============================================================