1st International Conference on Runtime Verification
RV 2010
November 1 - 4, 2010 Sliema, Malta
http://www.rv2010.org
Runtime verification (RV) is concerned with monitoring and analysis of software or hardware system executions. The field is often referred to under different names, such as runtime verification, runtime monitoring, runtime checking, runtime reflection, runtime analysis, dynamic analysis, symbolic dynamic analysis, trace analysis, log file analysis, etc. RV can be used for many purposes, such as program understanding, systems usage understanding, security or safety policy monitoring, debugging, testing, verification and validation, fault protection, behavior modification (e.g., recovery), etc. A running system can be abstractly regarded as a generator of execution traces, i.e., sequences of relevant states or events. Traces can be processed in various ways, e.g., checked against formalized specifications, analyzed with special algorithms, visualized, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- program instrumentation techniques
- specification languages for writing monitors
- extraction of monitors from specifications; APIs for writing monitors
- programming language constructs for monitoring
- model-based monitoring and reconfiguration
- the use of aspect oriented programming for dynamic analysis
- algorithmic solutions to minimize runtime monitoring impact
- combination of static and dynamic analysis; full program verification based on runtime verification
- intrusion detection, security policies, policy enforcement
- log file analysis
- model-based test oracles
- observation
- based debugging techniques
- fault detection and recovery, model-based integrated health management and diagnosis
- program steering and adaptation
- dynamic concurrency analysis
- dynamic specification mining
- metrics and statistical information gathered during runtime
- program execution visualization
The RV series of events started in 2001, as an annual workshop. The RV'01 to RV'05 proceedings were published in ENTCS. Since 2006, the RV proceedings have been published in LNCS. Starting with year 2010, RV is an international conference. Links to past RV events can be found at the permanent URL http://runtime-verification.org.
PAPER SUBMISSION
RV will have two research paper categories: regular and short papers. Papers in both categories will be reviewed by the conference Program Committee.
- Regular papers (up to 15 pages) should present original unpublished results. Applications of runtime verification are particularly welcome. A Best Paper Award (300 Euro) will be offered. Selected papers will be published in an issue of Formal Methods in System Design.
- Short papers (up to 5 pages) may present novel but not necessarily thoroughly worked out ideas, for example emerging runtime verification techniques and applications, or techniques and applications that establish relationships between runtime verification and other domains. Accepted short papers will be presented in special short talk (5-10 minutes) and poster sessions.
TUTORIAL AND TOOL DEMONSTRATION SUBMISSION
In addition to short and regular papers, proposals for tutorials and tool demonstrations are welcome. Proposals should be up to 2 pages long.
- Tutorial proposals on any of the topics above, as well as on topics at the boundary between RV and other domains, are welcome. Accepted tutorials will be allocated up to 15 pages in the conference proceedings. Tutorial presentations will be at least 2 hours.
- Tool demonstration proposals should briefly introduce the problem solved by the tool and give the outline of the demonstration. Tool papers will be allocated 5 pages in the conference proceedings. A Best Tool Award (200 Euro) will be offered.
Submitted tutorial and tool demonstration proposals will be evaluated by the corresponding chairs, with the help of selected reviewers.
All accepted papers, including tutorial and tool papers, will appear in the LNCS proceedings. Submitted papers must use the LNCS style. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend RV'10 to present the paper. Papers must be submitted electronically using the EasyChair system. A link to the electronic submission page is available on the RV'10 web page.
IMPORTANT DATES
- May 1, 2010 - Submission of tutorial proposals
- May 15, 2010 - Notification for tutorial proposals
- June 8, 2010 - Submission of regular and short papers
- June 15, 2010 - Submission of tool demonstration proposals
- July 13, 2010 - Notification for regular, short, and tool papers
- August 17, 2010 - Camera-ready versions of accepted papers are due
ORGANIZERS
General chairs:
Howard Barringer (University of Manchester, UK)
Klaus Havelund (NASA/JPL, USA)
Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Programme committee chairs:
Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Local organization chair:
Gordon Pace (University of Malta)
Tutorials chair:
Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University)
Tool demonstrations chair:
Nikolai Tillmann (Microsoft Research)
Publicity chair
Ylies Falcone (INRIA Rennes)
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Jamie Andrews (University of Western Ontario, Canada)Thomas Ball (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA)
Saddek Bensalem (Verimag, France)
Eric Bodden (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany)
Rance Cleaveland (University of Maryland, USA)
Mads Dam (KTH, SE)
Matthew Dwyer (University of Nebraska, USA)
Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany)
Cormac Flanagan (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
Jean Goubault-Larrecq (ENS Cachan, France)
Patrice Godefroid (Microsoft Research Redmond, USA)
Susanne Graf (Verimag, France)
Radu Grosu (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Lars Grunske (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Rajiv Gupta (University of California at Riverside, USA)
John Hatcliff (Kansas State University, USA)
Mats Heimdahl (University of Minnesota, USA)
Sarfraz Khurshid (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
Kim Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Martin Leucker (Technical University Muenchen, Germany)
Paul Miner (NASA Langley, USA)
Greg Morrisett (Harvard University, USA)
Brian Nielsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Klaus Ostermann (University of Marburg, Germany)
Corina Pasareanu (NASA Ames, USA)
Doron Peled (Bar Ilan University, Israel)
Martin Rinard (Massachussets Institute of Technology, USA)
Grigore Rosu (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) (co-chair)
Wolfram Schulte Microsoft Research Redmond, USA)
Koushik Sen (University of California at Berkeley, USA)
Peter Sestoft (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Scott Smolka (State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA)
Oleg Sokolsky (University of Pennsylvania, USA) (co-chair)
Serdar Tasiran (Koc University, Turkey)
Shmuel Ur (IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel)
Willem Visser (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)
Mahesh Viswanathan (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
Brian Williams (MIT, USA)