Computer Aided Verification 10th International Conference, CAV'98, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 28-July 2, 1998, Proceedings

This book consitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV'98, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in June/July 1998. The 33 revised full papers and 10 tool papers presented were carefully selected from a total of 117 submissions. Also included are 11 invited contributions. Among the topics covered are modeling and specification formalisms; verification techniques like state-space exploration, model checking, synthesis, and automated deduction; various verification techniques; applications and case studies, and verification in practice.

Synchronous programming of reactive systems.- Ten years of partial order reduction.- An ACL2 proof of write invalidate cache coherence.- Transforming the theorem prover into a digital design tool: From concept car to off-road vehicle.- A role for theorem proving in multi-processor design.- A formal method experience at secure computing corporation.- Formal methods in an industrial environment.- On checking model checkers.- Finite-state analysis of security protocols.- Integrating proof-based and model-checking techniques for the formal verification of cryptographic protocols.- Verifying systems with infinite but regular state spaces.- Formal verification of out-of-order execution using incremental flushing.- Verification of an implementation of Tomasulo's algorithm by compositional model checking.- Decomposing the proof of correctness of pipelined microprocessors.- Processor verification with precise exceptions and speculative execution.- Symmetry reductions in model checking.- Structural symmetry and model checking.- Using magnetic disk instead of main memory in the Mur ? verifier.- On-the-fly model checking of RCTL formulas.- From pre-historic to post-modern symbolic model checking.- Model checking LTL using net unforldings.- Model checking for a first-order temporal logic using multiway decision graphs.- On the limitations of ordered representations of functions.- BDD based procedures for a theory of equality with uninterpreted functions.- Computing reachable control states of systems modeled with uninterpreted functions and infinite memory.- Multiple counters automata, safety analysis and presburger arithmetic.- A comparison of Presburger engines for EFSM reachability.- Generating finite-state abstractions of reactive systems using decision procedures.- On-the-fly analysis of systems with unbounded, lossy FIFO channels.- Computing abstractions of infinite state systems compositionally and automatically.- Normed simulations.- An experiment in parallelizing an application using formal methods.- Efficient symbolic detection of global properties in distributed systems.- A machine-checked proof of the optimality of a real-time scheduling policy.- A general approach to partial order reductions in symbolic verification.- Correctness of the concurrent approach to symbolic verification of interleaved models.- Verification of timed systems using POSETs.- Mechanising BAN Kerberos by the inductive method.- Protocol verification in Nuprl.- You assume, we guarantee: Methodology and case studies.- Verification of a parameterized bus arbitration protocol.- The ‘test model-checking’ approach to the verification of formal memory models of multiprocessors.- Design constraints in symbolic model checking.- Verification of floating-point adders.- Xeve, an Esterel verification environment.- InVeSt : A tool for the verification of invariants.- Verifying mobile processes in the HAL environment.- MONA 1.x: New techniques for WS1S and WS2S.- MOCHA: Modularity in model checking.- SCR: A toolset for specifying and analyzing software requirements.- A toolset for message sequence charts.- Real-time verification of Statemate designs.- Optikron: A tool suite for enhancing model-checking of real-time systems.- Kronos: A model-checking tool for real-time systems.