DIMACS Workshop SPIN96 -- 2nd International SPIN Verification Workshop Algorithms, Applications, Tool Use, Theory

August 5, 1996
DIMACS, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Jean-Charles Gre'goire, INRS, Univ. de Quebec, Canada, gregoire@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca

Gerard J. Holzmann, Bell Labs, gerard@research.att.com

Doron Peled, Bell Labs, doron@research.att.com

SPIN is a powerful reachability analysis tool designed for the verification of distributed systems. The tool was first made available publicly in 1991, and has quickly become a standard in both academia and in industry. In academia the tool is used for both teaching verification techniques, and to support research in, e.g., search algorithms, reduction methods, and tool construction. In industry the tool is used routinely on large scale verification problems. There are well over 2,000 installations of SPIN today, with active users in 30 different countries. For more info, see http://netlib.att.com/netlib/spin/whatispin.html

The first SPIN workshop was held in Montreal, Canada. The SPIN96 workshop will take place in New Jersey as part of the DIMACS Special Year on Logic and Algorithms. The new workshop will be part of a series of workshops on formal methods and verification. More information can be found at: http://dimacs.rutgers.edu/archive/

SPIN96 takes place following the LICS (logic in computer science), CADE (conf. on automated deduction) and CAV (computer aided verification) conferences, which will all be held at the same location in New Jersey this year. (See http://www.research.att.com/lics/floc/)

Demo sessions of extensions, restrictions, and variations of SPIN will be organized (or of any comparable tool that is suggested).

Keynote speaker: Moshe Y. Vardi, Rice University

Papers: Papers can be up to 20 pages in length and can be
        either a report on work in progress or a regular
        research paper on work that is somehow related to
        the SPIN system.

Demos:  Tool demonstrations, of extensions, restrictions
        variations, or alternatives, to SPIN, are invited.
        Please tell us as early as possible if you plan
        to demonstrate software - so that we can make sure
        we can set it up properly and make it work.

Dates:  The deadline for all contributions is:
                Saturday, June 15, 1996.
        Papers can be submitted electronically, in PostScript
        form to any one of the organizers.  We will make 
        available a Proceedings of the workshop in both printed 
        and also, for the authors that permit us to do so, in 
        electronic form.

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