Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis

Invited Talks.- Policies and Proofs for Code Auditing.- Recent Trend in Industry and Expectation to DA Research.- Toward Property-Driven Abstraction for Heap Manipulating Programs.- Branching vs. Linear Time: Semantical Perspective.- Regular Papers.- Mind the Shapes: Abstraction Refinement Via Topology Invariants.- Complete SAT-Based Model Checking for Context-Free Processes.- Bounded Model Checking of Analog and Mixed-Signal Circuits Using an SMT Solver.- Model Checking Contracts - A Case Study.- On the Efficient Computation of the Minimal Coverability Set for Petri Nets.- Analog/Mixed-Signal Circuit Verification Using Models Generated from Simulation Traces.- Automatic Merge-Point Detection for Sequential Equivalence Checking of System-Level and RTL Descriptions.- Proving Termination of Tree Manipulating Programs.- Symbolic Fault Tree Analysis for Reactive Systems.- Computing Game Values for Crash Games.- Timed Control with Observation Based and Stuttering Invariant Strategies.- Deciding Simulations on Probabilistic Automata.- Mechanizing the Powerset Construction for Restricted Classes of ?-Automata.- Verifying Heap-Manipulating Programs in an SMT Framework.- A Generic Constructive Solution for Concurrent Games with Expressive Constraints on Strategies.- Distributed Synthesis for Alternating-Time Logics.- Timeout and Calendar Based Finite State Modeling and Verification of Real-Time Systems.- Efficient Approximate Verification of Promela Models Via Symmetry Markers.- Latticed Simulation Relations and Games.- Providing Evidence of Likely Being on Time: Counterexample Generation for CTMC Model Checking.- Assertion-Based Proof Checking of Chang-Roberts Leader Election in PVS.- Continuous Petri Nets: Expressive Power and Decidability Issues.- Quantifying the Discord: Order Discrepancies in Message Sequence Charts.- A Formal Methodology to Test Complex Heterogeneous Systems.- A New Approach to Bounded Model Checking for Branching Time Logics.- Exact State Set