[The deadline for abstract submissions has just been extended to May 29th. My apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP -- Hendrik Tews]

============================================================================= 6th International Workshop on Systems Software Verification (SSV 2011) Real Software, Real Problems, Real Solutions

August 26-27 2011, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

https://es.fbk.eu/events/ssv2011

Industrial-strength software analysis and verification has advanced in recent years through the introduction of model checking, automated and interactive theorem proving, and static analysis techniques as well as correctness by design, correctness by contract, and model-driven development. However, many techniques are working under restrictive assumptions which are invalidated by complex (embedded) system software such as operating system kernels, low-level device drivers or microcontroller code.

The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry, who are facing real software and real problems to find real, applicable solutions. By "real" we mean problems such as time-to-market or reliability that the industry is facing and is trying to fix in software that is deployed in the market place. A real solution is one that is applicable to the problem in industry and not one that only applies to an abstract, academic toy version of it. This forum will discuss software analysis/development techniques and tools; it will also serve as a platform to discuss open problems and future challenges in dealing with existing and upcoming systems level code.

Topics include (but are not limited to):

* model checking * automated and interactive theorem proving * static analysis * model-driven development * embedded systems development * automated testing * programming languages * verifying compilers * software certification * software tools * experience reports

Submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system [1] until May 29 2011, 23:59h Samoan time. Papers should be up to 15 pages in pdf format and formatted in LNCS style [2]. Additional details may be included in a clearly marked appendix, which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. All will be subject to peer review under normal conference standards. Experience reports and papers on work in progress are welcome as long as there is a clear contribution. Submissions which are based or discuss a non-trivial piece of software are required to make all those non-standard software parts available, which a referee may need, in order to check the claims of the submission.

Submitted papers must not have previously appeared in a journal or conference with published proceedings and must not be concurrently submitted to any other peer-reviewed workshop, symposium, conference or archival journal. Any partial overlap with any such published or concurrently submitted paper must be clearly indicated.

The workshop proceedings are planned to be published in the form of post-proceedings in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Important dates May 29 2011 Abstract Registration Deadline June 03 2011 Paper submission deadline June 30 2011 Notification of accepted papers July 15 2011 Final version August 26-27 2011 Workshop

The workshop is organized as a two-day workshop (August 26-27 2011).

Location The workshop will be held in Nijmegen, The Netherlands in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference on Interactive Theorem Proving (ITP 2011).

Program Chair Jörg Brauer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Marco Roveri (FBK-irst, Italy) Hendrik Tews (TU Dresden, Germany)

Steering Committee Ralf Huuck (NICTA, Australia) Gerwin Klein (NICTA, Australia) Bastian Schlich (ABB Corporate Research, Germany)

Program Committee Dirk Beyer (University of Passau, Germany) Jörg Brauer (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Adam Chlipala (Harvard, USA) Ansgar Fehnker (NICTA, Australia) Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA, Spain) Chris Hawblitzel (Microsoft Research, USA) Andy King (University of Kent, UK) Stefan Kowalewski (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) Thomas Kropf (Bosch, Germany) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark) Wolfgang Reif (University of Augsburg, Germany) Marco Roveri (FBK-irst, Italy) Axel Simon (TU Munich, Germany) Nishant Sinha (NEC Labs, USA) Hendrik Tews (TU Dresden, Germany) Michael Whalen (UMSEC -- University of Minnesota, USA) Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University, Korea)

Invited Speakers Following a tradition established over the past iterations of SSV, this years workshop will feature at least two keynote talks. The invited speakers will be announced soon.

[1] http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ssv2011 [2] http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0