Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems 23rd International Conference, TACAS 2017, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017, Uppsala, Sweden, April 22-29, 2017, Proceedings, Part I

The two-book set LNCS 10205 + 10206 constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2017, which took place in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2017, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017.

The 48 full papers, 4 tool demonstration papers, and 12 software competition papers presented in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 181 submissions to TACAS and 32 submissions to the software competition. They were organized in topical sections named: verification techniques; learning; synthesis; automata; concurrency and bisimulation; hybrid systems; security; run-time verification and logic; quantitative systems; SAT and SMT; and SV COMP. 

Invited Talk.- Validation, Synthesis and Optimization for Cyber-Physical Systems.- Verification Techniques.- An Abstraction Technique For Parameterized Model Checking of Leader Election Protocols: Application to FTSP.- Combining String Abstract Domains for JavaScript Analysis: An Evaluation.-Invariant Checking of NRA Transition Systems via Incremental Reduction to LRA with EUF.- Bounded Quantifier Instantiation for Checking Inductive Invariants.- Proving Termination through Conditional Termination.-Efficient Certified Resolution Proof Checking.- Precise Widening Operators for Proving Termination by Abstract Interpretation.- Automatic Verification of Finite Precision Implementations of Linear Controllers.- Learning.- Learning Symbolic Automata.- ML for ML: Learning Cost Semantics by Experiment.- A Novel Learning Algorithm for B uchi Automata based on Family of DFAs and Classification Trees.- Synthesis.- Hierarchical Network Formation Games.- Synthesis of Recursive ADT Transformers from Reusable Templates.- Counterexample-Guided Model Synthesis.- Interpolation-Based GR(1) Assumptions Refinement.- Connecting Program Synthesis and Reachability: Automatic Program Repair using Test-Input Generation.- Scaling Enumerative Program Synthesis via Divide and Conquer.- Towards Parallel Boolean Functional Synthesis.- Encodings of Bounded Synthesis.- Tools.- HQSpre - An Effective Preprocessor for QBF and DQBF.- RPP: Automatic Proof of Relational Properties by Self-Composition.- autoCode4: Structural Controller Synthesis.- Automata.- Lazy Automata Techniques for WS1S.- From LTL and limit-deterministic Büchi automata to deterministic parity automata.- Index appearance record for transforming Rabin automata into parity automata.- Minimization of Visibly Pushdown Automata Using Partial Max-SAT.- Concurrency and Bisimulation.- CSimpl: a Framework for the Verification of Concurrent Programs using Rely-Guarante.- Fair Termination for Parameterized Probabilistic Concurrent Systems.- Forward Bisimulations for Nondeterministic Symbolic Finite Automata.- Up-To Techniques for Weighted Systems.- Hybrid Systems.- Rigorous Simulation-Based Analysis of Linear Hybrid Systems.- HARE: A Hybrid Abstraction Refinement Engine for Verifying Non-Linear Hybrid Automata.- Counterexample-guided Refinement of Template Polyhedra.