Program Chair:
Patrice Godefroid

Bell Laboratories,

Lucent Technologies

 

Program Committee:

George Avrunin

(U. Mass. Amherst, USA)

Dennis Dams

(Bell Labs, USA)

Stefan Edelkamp

(U. Dortmund, Germany)

Cormac Flanagan

(UC Santa Cruz, USA)

Jaco Geldenhuys

(Tampere U., Finland)

Patrice Godefroid

(Bell Labs, USA; chair)

Susanne Graf

(Verimag, France)

Gerard Holzmann

(NASA JPL, USA)

Sarfraz Khurshid

(UT Austin, USA)

Stefan Leue

(U. Konstanz, Germany)

Rupak Majumdar

(UCLA, USA)

Laurent Mounier

(Verimag, France)

Shaz Qadeer

(Microsoft, USA)

Theo Ruys

(U. Twente, the Netherlands)

Willem Visser

(NASA Ames, USA)

Pierre Wolper

(U. Liege, Belgium)

 

Advisory Committee:

Gerard Holzmann

(NASA JPL, USA; chair)

Amir Pnueli

(Weizmann Inst., Israel)

 

Steering Committee:

Thomas Ball

(Microsoft, USA)

Susanne Graf

(Verimag, France)

Stefan Leue

(U. Konstanz, Germany)

Moshe Vardi

(Rice U., USA)

Pierre Wolper

(U. Liege, Belgium; chair)

 

SPIN 2005

12th International SPIN Workshop on Model Checking of Software

August 22-24, 2005, San Francisco, USA

(Co-located with CONCUR 2005)

 

Call for Papers

 

SPIN 2005 solicits previously unpublished, currently unsubmitted, original contributions addressing theoretical, experimental and applied problems in model checking of software artifacts. Particular topics include:

  • model-checking based tools, tool extensions and comparative studies
  • theoretical and algorithmic foundations of model-checking based analysis
  • combination of model-checking techniques with other analysis techniques
  • model checking of programming languages and code analysis
  • techniques for analyzing and testing large and infinite state systems
  • model checking in the system life-cycle
  • innovative applications of model checking, including
    • model checking of object-oriented and component based systems
    • model checking of security systems
    • model checking of real-time systems
  • engineering of model-checking tools and platforms
  • convincing case studies which apply model-checking to real software systems

 

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, correctness, and clarity. A submitted paper should clearly express the contribution of the work, both in general and in technical terms. It is essential to identify what was accomplished, describe the significance of the work, and explain how the paper compares with, and improves upon, previous work. 

 

Although authors are encouraged to compare their work with existing model checkers such as SPIN, the scope of the workshop is not limited to topics directly related to the SPIN system.

We solicit submissions of two categories of papers:

Full papers: submissions are limited to 15 pages, and should adhere to Springer Verlag's LNCS format, preferably using LaTeX. Authors who feel it is absolutely necessary to include additional material may place it in a well-marked appendix after page 15, but committee members are under no obligation to review this material.

Tool presentations: SPIN 2005 solicits proposals for the demonstration of tools pertinent to the technical objective of this workshop. Proposals should be submitted as a summary of up to 5 pages (using Springer Verlag's LNCS format, preferably using LaTeX) which will be included in the workshop proceedings. The title of the summary should clearly indicate that this is a tool demonstration summary. Longer tool-related contributions should be submitted as full papers.

Accepted contributions will be included in the workshop proceedings which will be published by Springer Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

 

Submission is on-line at the URL:

 http://sttt.cs.uni-dortmund.de/spin05/servlet/Conference

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: the submission web-site is now closed to new submissions. 

 

All authors are requested to submit a paper title and a short abstract by April 1, before submitting their full/tool paper by April 8. However, our submission web-site will remain open for both abstracts and papers until April 8. The format of all (full and tool) paper submissions should be either pdf or postscript.

 

Here is the SPIN 2005 PC policy.

 

Important Dates

 

April 1, 2005

April 8, 2005

May 16, 2005

June 8, 2005

August 22-24, 2005

Submission deadline for Abstracts

Submission deadline for Papers

Notification of acceptance

Final version of papers due

SPIN 2005 in San Francisco