CFP: Workshop on Constraint Programming and Constraint for Verification (CP+CV'04)

[Giorgio Delzanno]

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                            CALL FOR PAPERS


Workshop on Constraint Programming and Constraint for Verification (CP+CV'04)

                       March 28, Barcelona, Spain

  at the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS)

             Home page: http://www.disi.unige.it/person/DelzannoG/CP+CV/

			Deadline: January 28, 2004

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OVERVIEW

The use of constraints had its scientific and commercial breakthrough in 
the 1990s. 
Programming with constraints makes it possible to model and specify problems 
with uncertain, incomplete information and to solve combinatorial problems, 
as they are abundant in industry and commerce, such as scheduling, planning, 
transportation, resource allocation, layout, design, and analysis. 
Constraint-based programming languages enjoy elegant theoretical properties, 
conceptual simplicity, and practical success.

The aim of the workshop is to provide opportunity for interactions with the 
other ETAPS'04 events and to be a major meeting point in the research area 
inbetween the Constraint Programming conferences, which are held each autumn.

The workshop will consist of sessions with invited talks that summarize the 
main challenges and/or application potential for the community, and sessions 
with short presentations describing ongoing work.

Taking inspiration from the CP 02 workshop CFV, we will have a special track 
dedicated to "formal verification". In recent years there has been an 
increasing  interest for the application of constraint programming and 
constraint solving  technology to the formal verification of hardware 
and software systems. 
Constraint solvers for Boolean (SAT) and arithmetic domains (Presburger, 
polyhedra,  linear constraints) are widely used as subprocedures of 
symbolic model checkers  (e.g. nuSMV) and of model checkers for hybrid 
and real time systems (e.g. HyTech, Uppaal). 
Constraint solving is also used for computing static analysis of programs 
with numerical data variables and concurrent systems (e.g. via the Structural 
Theory of Petri Nets).

The aim of this special track is to bring together researchers working 
in constraints  and verification and to investigate the theoretical 
foundations, new applications,  and future developments in this area.

SUBMISSION

To submit, send an email to 

Giorgio Delzanno giorgio at disi.unige.it

containing four consecutive ASCII lines with title, author(s), email(s) and 
WWW link directly to compressed  postscript file (5-15 pages). 

Accepted papers will be available electronically at the workshop web-page 
and may be published in hard-copy proceedings (available at the workshop).

ORGANISATION AND PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Giorgio Delzanno, DISI - University of Genova
Thom Fruehwirth, University of Ulm
Francois Fages, INRIA Rocquencourt
Joao Marques-Silva, Technical University of Lisbon, IST/INESC-ID/CEL
Andreas Podelski, MPI - Saarbruecken
Peter Stuckey, University of Melbourne

IMPORTANT DATES

 January 28, 2004: Paper/abstract submissions
 February 25, 2004: Acceptance decisions
 March 12, 2004: Final version due
 March 28, 2004: Workshop at ETAPS 2004