10th International Symposium on Automated Technology
for Verification and Analysis (ATVA 2012)
October 3-6, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India

http://www.iarcs.org.in/atva2012/

The ATVA series of symposia is intended to promote research in
theoretical and practical aspects of automated analysis, verification
and synthesis in East Asia by providing a forum for interaction
between the regional and international research communities and
industry in the field. The previous nine editions of the symposium
were held in Taiwan (2003, 2004, 2005), Beijing (2006), Tokyo (2007),
Seoul (2008), Macao (2009), Singapore (2010) and Taipei (2011). ATVA
2012 will be held in the picturesque campus of Tata Consultancy
Services at Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum), India from Oct 3 to Oct
6, 2012.

Scope
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ATVA 2012 solicits high quality submissions in areas related to the
theory and practice of automated analysis and verification of hardware
and software systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to
the following.
* Formalisms for modeling hardware, software and embedded systems
* Specification and verification of finite-state, infinite-state
and parameterized system
* Program analysis and software verification
* Analysis and verification of hardware circuits, systems-on-chip and
embedded systems
* Analysis of real-time, hybrid, priced/weighted and probabilistic systems
* Deductive, algorithmic, compositional, and abstraction/refinement
techniques for analysis and verification
* Analytical techniques for safety, security, and dependability
* Testing and runtime analysis based on verification technology
* Analysis and verification of parallel and concurrent hardware/software
systems
* Verification in industrial practice
* Applications and case studies

Theory papers should preferably be motivated by practical problems,
and applications should be based on sound theory and solve problems of
practical interest.

Keynote talks and tutorials
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ATVA 2012 will feature three keynote talks and tutorials by the
following speakers. Tutorials are scheduled on October 3, 2012

* Hardware track: Sharad Malik (Princeton Univ, USA)
* Software track: Andreas Podelski (Univ of Freiburg, Germany)
* Theory track: P. S. Thiagarajan (National Univ of Singapore, Singapore)

Submission
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Submissions are invited in two categories: regular research papers and
tool papers. Submitted papers must present original and unpublished
work, and must not be concurrently submitted to any other conference
or journal.

Regular paper submissions are restricted to 15 pages in Springer's
LNCS format, and tool paper submissions are restricted to 4 pages in
the same format. For more information about the format and about
Springer's LNCS author guidelines, please see
http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0.

Proofs and details omitted due to space constraints may be put in an
appendix. Any such additional material will be read by
reviewers/program committee members at their discretion. Authors are
therefore urged to include details necessary for evaluation of the
technical merit of their work within the prescribed page limits.

Tool papers must include information about a URL from where the tool
can be downloaded or accessed on-line for evaluation. The URL must
also contain a set of examples, and a user's manual that describes
usage of the tool through examples. In case the tool needs to be
downloaded and installed, the URL must also contain a document clearly
giving instructions for installation of the tool on
Linux/Windows/MacOS.

Authors must upload PDF files of their papers through Easychair
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=atva2012)

Accepted papers in both categories will be published by Springer as a
LNCS volume. At least one author of each accepted paper must also
register for the conference and present the paper.

For further information and instructions about submission,
please refer to the conference website (http://www.iarcs.org.in/atva2012).

Important dates
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Submission server opens: March 1, 2012
Paper submission deadline: April 30, 2012
Notification of acceptance: June 18, 2012
Final copy for proceedings: July 2, 2012

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Conference Committees
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General Chair
S. Ramesh, Global GM R&D, India

Program Committee chairs
Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay, India
Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Math. Inst., India

Steering Committee
E. Allen Emerson, Univ of Texas Austin, USA
Teruo Higashino, Osaka Univ, Japan
Oscar H. Ibarra, Univ of California at Santa Barbara, USA
Insup Lee, Univ of Pennsylvania, USA
Doron A. Peled, Bar Ilan Univ, Israel
Farn Wang, National Taiwan Univ, Taiwan
Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan Univ, Taiwan

Program Committee includes

Rajeev Alur, Univ of Pennsylvania, USA
Christel Baier, TU Dresden, Germany
Purandar Bhaduri, IIT Guwahati, India
Jonathan Billington, Univ of South Australia, Australia
Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Supratik Chakraborty, IIT Bombay, India
Deepak D'Souza, IISc, India
Pallab Dasgupta, IIT Kharagpur, India
E. Allen Emerson, Univ of Texas at Ausin, USA
Laurent Fribourg, LSV, CNRS & ENS Cachan, France
Masahiro Fujita, Univ of Tokyo, Japan
Susanne Graf, Verimag, France
Teruo Higashino, Osaka Univ, Japan
Alan Hu, Univ of British Columbia, Canada
Franjo Ivancic, NEC Labs, USA
Joost-Pieter Katoen, RWTH Aachen Univ, Germany
Zurab Khasidashvili, Intel, Israel
Moonzoo Kim, KAIST, S. Korea
Padmanabhan Krishnan, Bond Univ, Australia
K. Narayan Kumar, Chennai Math. Inst., India
Orna Kupferman, Hebrew Univ, Isreal
Insup Lee, Univ of Pennsylvania, USA
Xuandong Li, Nanjing Univ, P.R. China
Madhavan Mukund, Chennai Math. Inst., India
Aditya Nori, Microsoft Research India, India
Jun Pang, Univ Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Doron Peled, Bar Ilan Univ, Israel
Sanjiva Prasad, IIT Delhi, India
Ganesan Ramalingam, Microsoft Research India, India
Anders P. Ravn, Aalborg Univ, Denmark
Abhik Roychoudhury, National Univ of Singapore, Singapore
Ashish Tiwari, SRI, USA
R. Venkatesh, TRDDC, India
Mahesh Viswanathan, Univ of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
Farn Wang, National Taiwan Univ, Taiwan
Hsu-Chun Yen, National Taiwan Univ, Taiwan
Wang Yi, Uppsala Univ, Sweden