Call for Papers
Second Workshop on Validation Strategies for Software Evolution (VSSE) 2013
http://sysrun.haifa.il.ibm.com/hrl/vsse2013/
Rome, Italy, Saturday March 16th, 2013
Affiliated with ETAPS 2013: http://www.etaps.org/2013/workshops13
VSSE focuses on the verification and testing of software changes and upgrades. Software is usually not written all at once, but is built incrementally for several reasons:
Changes are done frequently during the lifetime of most systems and can introduce software errors that were not present in the old version or expose errors that were present before but did not get exercised.
In addition, upgrades are done gradually, so the old and new versions have to co-exist in the same system. This workshop addresses the issue of efficient and reliable verification of system changes and upgrades by means of formal verification, analysis
and testing techniques.
The first VSSE took place in Tallinn, Estonia, in 2012, affiliated with ETAPS 2012. The program of VSSE 2012 consisted of invited talks by experts in this area. Following the success of VSSE 2012, we decided to invite submissions to VSSE 2013.
The workshop proceedings will be published in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science series (ENTCS).
We encourage submission of work that addresses all aspects of formal verification, analysis, and testing of evolving software.
Paper submission:
All submitted papers should be in ENTCS format. For details, see: http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html
There are two categories of submissions:
A. Regular papers. Regular paper submissions should describe original and unpublished work. Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of previously published material is strictly forbidden. Regular papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages in ENTCS format – please see the instructions at http://www.entcs.org/preliminary.html . Submissions are accepted in electronic form (pdf), via the easychair at
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vsse2013
B. Presentation only. Presentation-Only submissions can describe a previously published work or a preliminary idea. Presentation-only submissions will be given a presentation slot in the workshop, but will not be published in the proceedings. This is an opportunity to present an already published relevant work, or to describe an interesting idea not yet ready for publication. Presentation will not be considered as a publication, so submission of already published or submitted results is allowed and encouraged. If you are working on the validation of changes and upgrades and plan to attend ETAPS, please consider submitting your presentation to the workshop. Presentation-only submissions can be either a two-pages abstract (pdf), or a presentation (PowerPoint or pdf).
Important dates:
Submission deadline: December 20, 2012 Author notification: January 20, 2013 Camera-read version: January 30, 2013 Workshop: March 16, 2013
Workshop chair: Hana Chockler (hanac@il.ibm.com)
Organizing committee:
Hana Chockler, IBM Research Daniel Kroening, Oxford Natasha Sharygina, USI Leonardo Mariani, UniMiB Giovanni Denaro, UniMiB
Program committee:
Hana Chockler, IBM Research Giovanni Denaro, University of Milano Bicocca Alastair Donaldson, Imperial College, London Daniel Kroening, Oxford Shuvendu Lahiri, Microsoft Research Leonardo Mariani, University of Milano Bicocca Fabio Massacci, University of Trento Ali Muhammad, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Manuel Oriol, ABB Corporate Research Alessandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology Bastian Schlich, ABB Corporate Research Ondrej Sery, Charles University in Prague Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano Ofer Strichman, Technion Tanja Vos, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia Michael Wahler, ABB Corporate Research