SAVCBS'07
	Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems
	Workshop at ESEC/FSE 2007 September 3-4, 2007

The sixth workshop on specification and verification of component-based systems was affiliated with ESEC/FSE 2007 and was held in the the Salon 6 room of the Croatia Hotel in (Cavtat, near) Dubrovnik, Croatia, during September 3-4, 2007. Information is available on the following topics.

• 2007 Proceedings PDF file (including all papers, 112 pages). Copyright 2007 ACM ISBN 978-1-59593-721-6/07/0009.
• Accepted papers for the 2007 workshop. This includes links to the individual papers presented.
• Schedule for the workshop. This also includes links to the papers and posters presented.
• Talk slides from the 2007 workshop presentations.
• Authors (and everyone else!) should have registered for the workshop at the ESEC/FSE 2007 website.
• Accepted papers were due August 23, 2007, in ACM format. Authors should look at the detailed formatting instructions.
• Call for papers (also in PDF, MS Word, and Plain text formats). (The final, extended, deadline for papers was June 25, 2007.)
• Details on the challenge problem.
• Themes and Goals
• Organization
• Web site for the SAVCBS workshop series.

Themes and Goals:

This workshop is concerned with how formal (i.e., mathematical) techniques can be or should be used to establish a suitable foundation for the specification and verification of component-based systems. Component-based systems are a growing concern for the software engineering community. Specification and reasoning techniques are urgently needed to permit composition of systems from components. Component-based specification and verification is also vital for scaling advanced verification techniques such as extended static analysis and model checking to the size of real systems. The workshop will consider formalization of both functional and non-functional behavior, such as performance or reliability.

We would like to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of component-based software and formal methods to address the open problems in modular specification and verification of systems composed from components. We are interested in bridging the gap between principles and practice. The intent of bringing participants together at the workshop is to help form a community-oriented understanding of the relevant research problems and help steer formal methods research in a direction that will address the problems of component-based systems. For example, researchers in formal methods have only recently begun to study principles of object-oriented software specification and verification, but do not yet have a good handle on how inheritance can be exploited in specification and verification. Other issues are also important in the practice of component-based systems, such as concurrency, mechanization and scalability, performance (time and space), reusability, and understandability. The participants will brainstorm about these and related topics to understand both the problems involved and how formal techniques may be useful in solving them.

The goals of the workshop are to produce:

1. Contacts and discussion among researchers and practictioners,
2. A web site that will be maintained after the workshop to act as a central clearinghouse for research in this area.

Organization

Organizers:

• Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA
• Mike Barnett, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA, USA.
• Dimitra Giannakopoulou, RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, USA.
• Gary T. Leavens, Department of Computer Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 50011-1041, USA.
• Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213

Workshop Program Committee:

• Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, chair (University of Kaiserlautern)
• Jonathan Aldrich (Carnegie Mellon University)
• Michael Barnett (Microsoft Research)
• Marcello M. Bonsangue (LIACS - Leiden University)
• Paulo Borba (Federal University of Pernambuco)
• Kathi Fisler (WPI)
• Cormac Flanagan (University of California, Santa Cruz)
• Marieke Huisman (INRIA Sophia Antipolis)
• Joost-Pieter Katoen (RWTH Aachen)
• Gary T. Leavens (Iowa State University)
• Peter Müller (ETH Zürich)
• David Naumann (Stevens Institute of Technology)
• Matthew Parkinson (University of Cambridge)
• Ralf Reussner (Universität Karlsruhe)
• Natasha Sharygina (Lugano and Carnegie Mellon)
• Kurt C. Wallnau (Software Engineering Institute)
• Tao Xie (North Carolina State University)