[ecoop-info] FMCAD 2007 Call for Participation

Mauro Prevostini mauro.prevostini at unisi.ch
Tue Sep 4 17:18:29 CEST 2007


                          FMCAD 2007
 International Conference on Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design
                       http://fmcad.org/2007
               November 11-14, 2007, Austin, Texas

                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

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            Early Registration will open mid-September
   Refer to http://fmcad.org/2007 for more information and updates
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FMCAD 2007 is the seventh in a series of conferences on the theory and
application of formal methods in hardware and system design and
verification. In 2005, the bi-annual FMCAD and sister conference CHARME
decided to merge to form an annual conference with a unified community. The
resulting unified FMCAD provides a leading international forum to
researchers and practitioners in academia and industry for presenting and
discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and
tools for formally reasoning about computing systems, as well as open
challenges therein. FMCAD2007 will include a full day of tutorials (see
below), and will be co-located with the ACL2 Workshop.


Program
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Sunday, November 11
Tutorials day, Chair: Natasha Sharygina

8:30-9:00       Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:00-10:00      Robert Brayton
                The Synergy between Logic Synthesis and Equivalence

10:00-10:30     Break

10:30-12:00     Farid Najm
                Power Management for VLSI Circuits and the Need for
High-Level Power Modeling and Design Exploration

12:00-13:30     Lunch

13:30-15:00     Niklas Een
                Practical SAT

15:00-15:30     Break

15:30-17:00     Randal E. Bryant
                Modeling Data in Formal Verification: Bits, Bit Vectors, or
Words

17:00-17:30     Break

17:30-19:00     Panel Presentation + Discussion
                The Business of Formal Verification
                Moderator: Aarti Gupta

19:00           Reception



Monday, November 12

8:30-9:00       Welcome and Opening Remarks


Invited Talk

9:00-10:00      Eli Singerman
                Verification of Embedded Software in Industrial
Microprocessors

10:00-10:30     Break


Session 1:      SAT-Based Methods

10:30-11:00     Jocelyn Simmonds, Jessica Davies, Arie Gurfinkel, and Marsha
Chechik
                Exploiting Resolution Proofs to Speed Up LTL Vacuity
Detection for BMC

11:00-11:30     Sean Safarpour, Mark Liffiton, Hratch Mangassarian, Andreas
Veneris, and Karem Sakallah
                Improved Design Debugging using Maximum Satisfiability

11:30-12:00     Daher Kaiss, Marcelo Skaba, Ziyad Hanna, and Zurab
Khasidashvili
                Industrial Strength SAT-based Alignability Algorithm for
Hardware Equivalence Verification

12:00-12:30     Frank Hutter, Domagoj Babic, Holger Hoos, and Alan Hu
                Boosting Verification by Automatic Tuning of Decision
Procedures

12:30-14:00     Lunch


Session 2:      High-Level System Analysis

14:00-14:30     Ariel Cohen, John O'Leary, Amir Pnueli, Mark Tuttle, and
Lenore Zuck
                Verifying Correctness of Transactional Memories

14:30-15:00     Naghmeh Ghafari, Arie Gurfinkel, Nils Klarlund, and Richard
Trefler
                Algorithmic Analysis of Piecewise FIFO Systems

15:00-15:30     Xiaofang Chen, Steven German, and Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
                Transaction Based Modeling and Verification of Hardware
Protocol Implementations

15:30-15:45     Yogesh Mahajan and Sharad Malik
                Automating Hazard Checking in Transaction-Level
Microarchitecture Models

15:45-16:15     Break


Session 3:      Abstraction-Based Methods

16:15-16:45     Roberto Cavada, Alessandro Cimatti, Anders Franzen,
Kalyanasundaram Krishnamani, Marco Roveri, and R. K. Shyamasundar
                Computing Abstractions by integrating BDDs and SMT

16:45-17:15     Chao Wang, Aarti Gupta, and Franjo Ivancic
                Induction in CEGAR for Detecting Counterexamples

17:15-17:30     Daniel Kroening and Georg Weissenbacher
                Lifting Propositional Interpolants to the Word-Level



Tuesday, November 13

Session 1:      Software Analysis Methods

9:00-9:30       Fadi Zaraket, John Pape, Margarida Jacome, Adnan Aziz, and
Sarfraz Khurshid
                COSE: a Technique for Co-optimizing Embedded Systems

9:30-10:00      Hana Chockler, Benny Godlin, Eitan Farchi, and Sergey
Novikov
                Cross-Entropy Based Testing

10:00-10:30     Break


Session 2:      Panel Presentations + Discussion
10:30-12:30     FMCAD 2027: Will the 'FM' Have a Real Impact on the 'CAD'?
                Moderator: William Joyner (SRC)
                Panelists: Robert Jones, Andreas Kuehlmann, Carl Pixley

12:30-14:00     Lunch


Session 3:      Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation

14:00-14:30     Yan Chen, Yujing He, Fei Xie, and Jin Yang
                Automatic Abstraction Refinement for Generalized Symbolic
Trajectory Evaluation

14:30-15:00     Edward Smith
                A Logic for GSTE

15:00-15:30     Sara Adams, Magnus Bjork, Tom Melham, and Carl-Johan Seger
                Automatic Abstraction in Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation

15:30-16:00     Break


Session 4: Specification Theory

16:00-16:30     Koen Claessen
                A Coverage Analysis for Safety Property Lists

16:30-17:00     Orna Kupferman and Yoad Lustig
                What triggers a behavior?

17:00-17:15     Kathi Fisler
                Two-Dimensional Regular Expressions for Compositional Bus
Protocols

17:15-17:30     Martin Oberkönig, Martin Schickel, and Hans Eveking
                A Quantitative Completeness Analysis for Property-Sets


17:30-18:30     Business Meeting


19:00           Conference Banquet
                Location: Ventana at Texas Culinary Academy



Wednesday, November 14


Invited Talk

9:00-10:00      Wolfgang Kunz
                Formal Verification of Systems-on-Chip - Industrial
Experiences and Scientific Perspectives

10:00-10:30     Break


Session 1: Industrial-Strength Verification

10:30-11:00     Michael Case, Alan Mishchenko, and Robert Brayton
                Automated Extraction of Inductive Invariants to Aid Model
Checking

11:00-11:30     Aaron Bradley and Zohar Manna
                Checking Safety by Inductive Generalization of
Counterexamples to Induction

11:30-12:00     Aaron Hurst, Alan Mishchenko, and Robert Brayton
                Fast Minimum Register Retiming Via Binary Maximum-Flow

12:00-12:15     Adrian Seigler, Gary Van Huben, and Hari Mony
                Formal Verification of Partial Good Self-Test Fencing
Structures

12:15-12:30     Alon Flaisher, Alon Gluska, and Eli Singerman
                Case study: Integrating FV and DV within the Verification of
Intel(r) Core(TM)2 Microprocessor

12:30-14:00     Lunch


Session 2: Reasoning about Physical Systems

14:00-14:30     Chao Yan and Mark Greenstreet
                Circuit-Level Verification of a High-Speed Toggle

14:30-15:00     Mohamed Zaki, Ghiath Al Sammane, Sofiene Tahar, and Guy Bois
                Combining Symbolic Simulation and Interval Arithmetic for
the Verification of AMS Designs

15:00-15:15     Neha Rungta, Hyrum Carroll, Eric Mercer, Randall Roper, Mark
Clement, and Quinn Snell
                Analyzing Gene Relationships for Down Syndrome with Labeled
Transitions Graphs

15:15-15:45     Break


Session 3: Advanced Theorem-Proving Applications

15:45-16:15     Julien Schmaltz
                A Formal Model of Clock Domain Crossing and Automated
Verification of Time-Triggered Hardware

16:15-16:45     Lee Pike
                Modeling Time-Triggered Protocols and Verifying their
Real-Time Schedules

16:45-17:00     Sandip Ray and Jayanta Bhadra
                A Mechanized Refinement Framework for Analysis of Custom
Memories



Organization
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Chairs:                 Jason Baumgartner, IBM Corporation, USA
                        Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology,
Sweden
Benchmarks:             Panagiotis Manolios, Georgia Institute of
Technology, USA
Local Arrangements:     Andy Martin, IBM Corporation, USA
Panels:                 Aarti Gupta, NEC Laboratories America, USA
                        William Joyner, Semiconductor Research Corporation,
USA
Publicity:              Alper Sen, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., USA
Tutorials:              Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Webmasters:             Hari Mony, IBM Corporation, USA
                        Sandip Ray, University of Texas, USA


Program Committee
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Mark Aagaard, University of Waterloo, Canada
Jason Baumgartner, IBM Corporation, USA
Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Per Bjesse, Synopsys, USA
Dominique Borrione, Grenoble University, France
Gianpiero Cabodi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Alessandro Cimatti, ITC-irst, Trento, Italy
Koen Claessen, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Cindy Eisner, IBM Haifa Research Laboratory, Israel
Steven German, IBM Research Division, USA
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA
Aarti Gupta, NEC Laboratories America, USA
Alan J. Hu, University of British Columbia, Canada
Warren Hunt, University of Texas, USA
Steven Johnson, Indiana University, USA
Robert Jones, Intel Corp., USA
Daniel Kroening, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Andreas Kuehlmann, Cadence Laboratories, USA
Wolfgang Kunz, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Jeremy Levitt, Mentor Graphics, USA
Panagiotis Manolios, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Andy Martin, IBM Research Division, USA
Tom Melham, Oxford University, UK
Alan Mishchenko, University of California at Berkeley, USA
Ken McMillan, Cadence Labs, USA
John O'Leary, Intel Corp., USA
Wolfgang Paul, Saarland University, Germany
Carl Pixley, Synopsys, USA
Natasha Sharygina, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Mary Sheeran, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Anna Slobodova, Intel Corp., USA
Richard Trefler, University of Waterloo, Canada



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