CALL FOR PAPERS

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                            ATVA 2007

                  Fifth International Symposium on
         Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis

              http://www.yt.cs.titech.ac.jp/atva2007/

                 Tokyo, Japan, October 22-24, 2007
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Sponsored by
             National Institute of Informatics, Japan
             Kayamori Foundation of Information Science Advancement

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IMPORTANT DATES
    Submission of papers (firm):    May  14, 2007
    Notification of authors    :    June 25, 2007
    Camera-ready papers        :    July 23, 2007

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INVITED SPEAKERS
    Martin Abadi (UCSC, Microsoft Research)
    Ken McMillan (Cadence Berkeley Labs)
    Moshe Vardi (Rice Univ.)

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INTRODUCTION
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ATVA 2007 is the fifth in the series of symposia on Automated Technology for 
Verification and Analysis. The purpose of ATVA is to promote research on 
theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification and 
synthesis in East Asia by providing a forum for interaction between the regional 
and the international research communities and industry in the field. The first 
three ATVA symposia were held in 2003, 2004 and 2005 in Taipei, and ATVA 2006 
was held in Beijing.

The Proceedings of ATVA 2007 will be published by Springer as a volume in the 
LNCS series. Submissions reporting original contributions are solicited in all 
areas of automated verification and analysis.  Please visit the ATVA 2007 Web 
site for details not found in this CFP.

SCOPE
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The scope of interest is intentionally kept broad; it includes :

   - Theory useful for providing designers with automated support for obtaining 
correct software or hardware systems, including both functional and non 
functional aspects, such as: theory on (timed) automata, Petri-nets, concurrency 
theory, compositionality, model-checking, automated theorem proving, synthesis, 
performance analysis, correctness-by-construction results, infinite state 
systems, abstract interpretation, decidability results, parametric analysis or 
synthesis.

   - Applications of theory in engineering methods and particular domains and 
handling of practical problems occurring in tools, such
as: analysis and verification tools, synthesis tools, reducing complexity of 
verification by abstraction, improved representations, handling user level 
notations, such as UML, practice in industry applications to hardware, software 
or real-time and embedded systems. Case studies, illustrating the usefulness of 
tools or a particular approach are also welcome.

Theory papers should be motivated by practical problems and applications should 
be rooted in sound theory. Of particular interest are algorithms on one hand and 
methods and tools for integrating formal approaches into industrial practice. 
Special care should be taken as well to present papers in such a way that they 
are accessible not only to specialists, that is, jargon need to be defined and 
intuitive interpretation provided for theories.

SUBMISSIONS
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A submitted paper must contain original contributions, clearly written in 
English, and include comparison with related work.  The authors are advised to 
prepare their manuscripts using the LNCS style.  Each paper should be no more 
than 15 pages long and be submitted electronically via the ATVA 2007 Web site. 
Simultaneous submissions to other conferences are not allowed.

ORGANISATION
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GENERAL CO-CHAIRS:
    Teruo Higashino (Osaka Univ., Japan)
    Yoshio Okamura (STARC, Japan)

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
    Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs, USA)
    Tomohiro Yoneda (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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    Rajeev Alur (University of Pennsylvania)
    Christel Baier (University of Dresden)
    Jonathan Billington (University of South Australia)
    Sung-Deok Cha (Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. and Techn.)
    Ching-Tsun Chou (Intel)
    Jin Song Dong (National University of Singapore)
    E. Allen Emerson (University of Texas at Austin)
    Masahiro Fujita (University of Tokyo)
    Susanne Graf (VERIMAG)
    Wolfgang Grieskamp (Microsoft research)
    Aarti Gupta (NEC Research)
    Teruo Higashino (Osaka University)
    Kiyoharu Hamaguchi (Osaka University)
    MoonZoo Kim (KAIST)
    Orna Kupferman (Hebrew University)
    Robert P. Kurshan (Cadence)
    Insup Lee (University of Pennsylvania)
    Xuandong Li (Nanjing University)
    Shaoying Liu (Hosei University)
    Zhiming Liu (IIST/United Nations University)
    Mila E. Majster-Cederbaum (University of Mannheim)
    Shin Nakajima (National Institute of Informatics)
    Akio Nakata (Osaka University)
    Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs)
    Mizuhito Ogawa (JAIST)
    Olaf Owe (University of Oslo)
    Doron A. Peled (University of Warwick)
    Mike Reed (UNU-IIST, Macao)
    Hiroyuki Seki (NAIST)
    Xiaoyu Song (Portland State University)
    Yih-Kuen Tsay (National Taiwan University)
    Irek Ulidowski (Leicester University)
    Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica)
    Farn Wang (National Taiwan University)
    Yi Wang (Uppsala University)
    Baowen Xu (Southeast University of China)
    Hsu-Chun Yen (National Taiwan University)
    Tomohiro Yoneda (National Institiute of Informatics)
    Shoji Yuen (Nagoya University)
    Wenhui Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
    Lenore Zuck (University of Illinois at Chicago)

STEERING COMMITTEE
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    E. Allen Emerson  (University of Texas at Austin, USA)
    Oscar H. Ibarra  (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)
    Insup Lee  (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
    Doron A. Peled  (University of Warwick, UK)
    Farn Wang  (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
    Hsu-Chun Yen  (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)