Overview

The formal verification of critical information systems has a long tradition as one of the main areas of application for automated theorem proving. Nevertheless, the area is of still growing importance as the number of computers affecting everyday life and the complexity of these systems are both increasing. The purpose of the VERIFY workshop series is to discuss problems arising during the formal modeling and verification of information systems and to investigate suitable solutions. Possible perspectives include those of automated theorem proving, tool support, system engineering, and applications.

Program

• VERIFY program
• VERIFY accepted papers
• VERIFY pre-proceedings

Invited Speakers

• Tuesday, August 15th, 09:00‑10:00
  John Rushby (SRI International)
  Threatened by a Great Opportunity: Disruptive Innovation in Formal Verification [pdf]
• Wednesday, August 16th, 09:30‑10:30
  Christoph Walther (TU Darmstadt)
  Verification in the Classroom
• Wednesday, August 16th, 11:00‑12:00
  Luca Vigano (ETH Zürich)
  Automated Reasoning for Security Protocol Analysis [pdf]

Scope

For automated theorem proving, each verification project is the source of numerous deduction problems that are not only interesting and challenging, but also of practical relevance. On the one hand, such proof obligations can serve as examples for experimenting with general-purpose deduction techniques and tools. On the other hand, deduction techniques can be tailored to typical classes of verification problems.

Tool support is essential in order to deal with the numerous proof obligations arising in practical verifications. In particular, powerful theorem provers are required to provide a high degree of automation. Moreover, tool support is also necessary for making the development of large specifications feasible, for keeping ongoing developments in a consistent state, and for supporting the reuse of previously constructed specifications and proofs. Often, satisfactory tool support can only be achieved by combining different systems.

Engineering techniques are needed for making the formal modeling and analysis of complex information systems feasible. Specifications become more manageable when being developed in a modular fashion and on different levels of abstraction. When a well-defined engineering process is applied, verification techniques can be tailored to the deduction problems that typically originate from this process.

Applications include the verification of functional properties, of safety properties, of security properties, and of fault tolerance. Evaluation criteria like the Common Criteria, for instance, require the construction of formal security models that constitute a basis for a formal verification. Verification case studies are necessary for evaluating the feasibility of verification techniques in practice.

The VERIFY workshop series aims at bringing together people who are interested in the development of safety and security critical systems, in formal methods, in the development of automated theorem proving techniques, and in the development of tool support. Practical experiences gained in realistic verifications are of interest to the automated theorem proving community and new theorem proving techniques should be transferred into practice. The overall objective of the VERIFY workshops is to identify open problems and to discuss possible solutions under the theme

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Contact

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to contact us by sending an e-mail to verification-ws@ags.uni-sb.de (Subject: `Information').