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Springer Computer Aided Verification 18Th International Conference Cav 2006 Seattle Wa Usa August 17-20 2006 Proceedings 2006 Edition by Thomas Ball Robert B. Jones
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification CAV 2006 held as part of the 4th Federated Logic Conference FLoC 2006. Presents 35 revised full papers together with 10 tool papers and 4 invited papers adressing all current issues in computer aided verification and model checking - from foundational and methodological issues ranging to the evaluation of major tools and systems Table of contents : Invited Talks.- Formal Specifications on Industrial-Strength Code-From Myth to Reality.- I Think I Voted: E-Voting vs. Democracy.- Playing with Verification Planning and Aspects: Unusual Methods for Running Scenario-Based Programs.- The Ideal of Verified Software.- Session 1. Automata.- Antichains: A New Algorithm for Checking Universality of Finite Automata.- Safraless Compositional Synthesis.- Minimizing Generalized Buchi Automata.- Session 2. Tools Papers.- Ticc: A Tool for Interface Compatibility and Composition.- FAST Extended Release.- Session 3. Arithmetic.- Don't Care Words with an Application to the Automata-Based Approach for Real Addition.- A Fast Linear-Arithmetic Solver for DPLL(T).- Session 4. SAT and Bounded Model Checking.- Bounded Model Checking for Weak Alternating Buchi Automata.- Deriving Small Unsatisfiable Cores with Dominators.- Session 5. Abstraction/Refinement.- Lazy Abstraction with Interpolants.- Using Statically Computed Invariants Inside the Predicate Abstraction and Refinement Loop.- Counterexamples with Loops for Predicate Abstraction.- Session 6. Tools Papers.- cascade: C Assertion Checker and Deductive Engine.- Yasm: A Software Model-Checker for Verification and Refutation.- Session 7. Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation.- SAT-Based Assistance in Abstraction Refinement for Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation.- Automatic Refinement and Vacuity Detection for Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation.- Session 8. Property Specification and Verification.- Some Complexity Results for SystemVerilog Assertions.- Check It Out: On the Efficient Formal Verification of Live Sequence Charts.- Session 9. Time.- Symmetry Reduction for Probabilistic Model Checking.- Communicating Timed Automata: The More Synchronous the More Difficult to Verify.- Allen Linear (Interval) Temporal Logic - Translation to LTL and Monitor Synthesis.- Session 10. Tools Papers.- DiVinE - A Tool for Distributed Verification.- EverLost: A Flexible Platform for Industrial-Strength Abstraction-Guided Simulation.- Session 11. Concurrency.- Symbolic Model Checking of Concurrent Programs Using Partial Orders and On-the-Fly Transactions.- Model Checking Multithreaded Programs with Asynchronous Atomic Methods.- Causal Atomicity.- Session 12. Trees Pushdown Systems and Boolean Programs.- Languages of Nested Trees.- Improving Pushdown System Model Checking.- Repair of Boolean Programs with an Application to C.- Session 13. Termination.- Termination of Integer Linear Programs.- Automatic Termination Proofs for Programs with Shape-Shifting Heaps.- Termination Analysis with Calling Context Graphs.- Session 14. Tools Papers.- Terminator: Beyond Safety.- CUTE and jCUTE: Concolic Unit Testing and Explicit Path Model-Checking Tools.- Session 15. Abstract Interpretation.- SMT Techniques for Fast Predicate Abstraction.- The Power of Hybrid Acceleration.- Lookahead Widening.- Session 16. Tools Papers.- The Heuristic Theorem Prover: Yet Another SMT Modulo Theorem Prover.- LEVER: A Tool for Learning Based Verification.- Session 17. Memory Consistency.- Formal Verification of a Lazy Concurrent List-Based Set Algorithm.- Bounded Model Checking of Concurrent Data Types on Relaxed Memory Models: A Case Study.- Fast and Generalized Polynomial Time Memory Consistency Verification.- Session 18. Shape Analysis.- Programs with Lists Are Counter Automata.- Lazy Shape Analysis.- Abstraction for Shape Analysis with Fast and Precise Transformers.