SAVCBS'09
	Specification and Verification of Component-Based Systems
	Workshop at ESEC/FSE 2009 August 25, 2009

The eighth workshop on specification and verification of component-based systems affiliated with ESEC/FSE 2009 will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, at the VU University Amsterdam on August 25, 2009.

Information is available on the following topics.

• Proceedings online in ACM digital library
• Schedule for the workshop
• The due date for papers has passed, but the Call for Papers (also available in plain text format) is still available.
• Details on the Challenge Problem
• Themes and Goals
• Important Dates
• 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.

Important Dates

• Paper submission: May 25, 2009
• Notification: June 10, 2009
• Final versions: June 20, 2009

See the Call for Papers for more details.

Organization

Organizers:

• Jonathan Aldrich, Carnegie Mellon University, 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, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, 32816-2362, USA.
• Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213

Workshop Program Committee:

We're pleased to have another outstanding program committee this year.

• Marieke Huisman, chair (University of Twente, Netherlands)
• Jonathan Aldrich, (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto, Canada)
• Jens Chr. Godskesen (IT University, Denmark)
• Alex Groce (Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA)
• Dilian Gurov (KTH, Sweden)
• Barbara Jobstmann (EPFL, Switzerland)
• Florian Kammüller (Technical University of Berlin, Germany)
• Joseph Kiniry (University College Dublin, Ireland)
• Darko Marinov (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
• Peter Müller (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• John Penix (Google, USA)
• Koushik Sen (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• Natasha Sharygina (University of Lugano, Switzerland and Carnegie Mellon, USA)
• Murali Sitaraman (Clemson University , USA)