Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis: 14th International Symposium, ATVA 2016, Chiba, Japan, October 17-20, 2016, Proceedings

by Cyrille Artho, Axel Legay, Doron Peled

Overview

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2016, held in Chiba, Japan, in October 2016.

The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: keynote; Markov models, chains, and decision processes; counter systems, automata; parallelism, concurrency; complexity, decidability; synthesis, refinement; optimization, heuristics, partial-order reductions; solving procedures, model checking; and program analysis.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319465197
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	10/30/2016
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #9938
Edition description:	1st ed. 2016
Pages:	530
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Keynote.- Synthesizing and Completely Testing Hardware based on Templates through Small Numbers of Test Patterns.- Markov Models, Chains, and Decision Processes.- Approximate Policy Iteration for Markov Decision Processes via Quantitative Adaptive Aggregations. -Optimizing the Expected Mean Payoff in Energy Markov Decision Processes.- Parameter Synthesis for Markov Models: Faster Than Ever.- Bounded Model Checking for Probabilistic Programs.- Counter Systems, Automata.- How Hard Is It to Verify Flat Affine Counter Systems with the Finite Monoid Property.- Solving Language Equations using Flanked Automata.- Spot 2.0 - a Framework for LTL and ω-Automata Manipulation.- MoChiBA: Probabilistic LTL Model Checking Using Limit- Deterministic Büchi Automata.- Parallelism, Concurrency.- Synchronous Products of Rewrite Systems.- Specifying and Verifying Secrecy in Workflows with Arbitrarily Many Agents.- Lazy Sequentialization for the Safety Verification of Unbounded Concurrent Programs.- Parallel SMT-Based Parameter Synthesis with Application to Piecewise Multi-Affine Systems.- Complexity, Decidability.- On Finite Domains in First-Order Linear Temporal Logic.- Decidability Results for Multi-Objective Shastic Games.- A Decision Procedure for Separation Logic in SMT.- Solving Mean-Payoff Games on the GPU.- Synthesis, Refinement.- Synthesizing Skeletons for Reactive Systems.- Observational Refinement and Merge for Disjunctive MTSs.- Equivalence-Based Abstraction Refinement for muHORS Model Checking.- Optimization, Heuristics, Partial-Order Reductions.- Greener Bits: Formal Analysis of Demand Response.- Heuristics for Checking Liveness Properties with Partial Order Reductions. - Partial-Order Reduction for GPU Model Checking.- Efficient Verification of Program Fragments: Eager POR.- Solving Procedures, Model Checking.- Skolem Functions for DQBF.- STL Model Checking of Continuous and Hybrid Systems.- Clause Sharing and Partitioning for Cloud-Based SMT Solving.- Symbolic Model Checking for Factored Probabilistic Models.- Program Analysis.- A Sketching-Based Approach for Debugging Using Test Cases.- Polynomial Invariants by Linear Algebra.- Certified Symbolic Execution.- Tighter Loop Bound Analysis.