[Please circulate this to anyone interested. Apologies for multiple copies.] _________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION PROBMIV'99 2nd International Workshop on Probabilistic Methods in Verification http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/probmiv99/ a satellite to CONCUR'99 Eindhoven, 23rd Aug 1999 (to coincide with EXPRESS'99, another satellite)
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SCOPE OF THE WORKSHOP Probability inherently features in software and hardware systems, either as a means to derive efficient solutions (e.g. randomization), or as a result of unreliable or unpredictable behaviour (e.g. fault-tolerant systems, computer networks, etc). *Probabilistic verification* encompasses a range of theoretical, algorithmic and programming methods that assist in establishing the correctness of probabilistic systems against specifications. Typically this involves calculating the probability bounds for a temporal logic formula being satisfied, based on an appropriate probability space on computations, but also includes properties such as cost analysis and long-run average. Additionally, probabilistic verification can provide guarantees the specifications hold with satisfactory probability in cases when conventional model checking is not feasible. The idea of this workshop is to bring together researchers that apply probabilistic methods across the whole spectrum of verification. The meeting aims to enable cross-fertilisation of ideas and techniques between areas that are usually not in regular contact through conferences, from semantics, probability theory, performance analysis and computational linear algebra, through randomized algorithms, probabilistic logics, model checking, abstract interpretation, to practical experimental work, tools and applications. This is the second workshop of this kind. The first meeting, PROBMIV'98 was held in 1998 as a satellite to LICS. In 1999, the workshop takes place as a satellite to CONCUR. _________________________________________________________________________ INVITED PAPERS Rance Cleaveland, SUNY at Stony Brook: Probabilistic Model Checking via the Modal Mu-Calculus Bengt Jonsson, University of Uppsala: On Model Checking Infinite-State Probabilistic Systems Kim Larsen, Aalborg University: Testing and Verification of Probabilistic Systems Oded Maler, Verimag: On the Representation of Probabilities over Structured Domains _________________________________________________________________________ ACCEPTED CONTRIBUTIONS Christel Baier, University of Mannheim, and Holger Hermanns, University of Twente: A lazy synchronous calculus of fully probabilistic processes Luca de Alfaro, University of California at Berkeley: The Verification of Probabilistic Systems under Memoryless Partial-Information Policies is Hard Josee Desharnais, McGill University: A logical characterization of probabilistic simulation Alessandra Di Pierro, University of Pisa, and Herbert Wiklicky, Imperial College: Ergodic Average in Constraint Programming Manfred Jaeger, Max-Planck-Institut at Saarbrucken: Fairness, Computable Fairness and Randomness Jeremy Sproston, University of Birmingham: Analysing subclasses of probabilistic hybrid automata _________________________________________________________________________ STEERING AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rajeev Alur, University of Pennsylvania Christel Baier, University of Mannheim Luca de Alfaro, University of California at Berkeley Michael Huth, Kansas State University Joost-Pieter Katoen, University of Twente Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Birmingham (chair) Roberto Segala, University of Bologna Prakash Panangaden, McGill University _________________________________________________________________________ RELATED EVENTS PROBMIV'99 is organized as a satellite workshop of CONCUR'99, the 10th International Conference on Concurrency Theory, which will take place in Eindhoven on August 24-27, 1999. PROBMIV'99 coincides with the EXPRESS'99 workshop on Expressiveness in Concurrency, another satellite of CONCUR'99. REGISTRATION is via the registration form for CONCUR'99, available at URL http://www.win.tue.nl/concur99/ There is no registration charge for PROBMIV'99, but pre-registration is required. Note that early registration for CONCUR'99 ends on ***1st July***. _________________________________________________________________________ LOCAL ORGANISATION Holger Hermanns, University of Twente Erik de Vink, Free University Amsterdam _________________________________________________________________________ FURTHER INFORMATION For more information please see URLs PROBMIV'99 http://fmt.cs.utwente.nl/probmiv99/ CONCUR'99 http://www.win.tue.nl/concur99/ EXPRESS'99 http://www.docs.uu.se/~victor/Express/express99.shtml PROBMIV'98 http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~mzk/probmiv98.html _________________________________________________________________________