Thursday, February 17, 2011

WWV 2011 Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems

First Call for Papers

WWV 2011
Automated Specification and Verification of Web Systems
7th International Workshop
(as part of DisCoTec'11)

http://rap.dsi.unifi.it/wwv2011/

June 9, 2011 - Reykjavik, Iceland

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IMPORTANT DATES

Abstract Submission                        March 28, 2011
Full Paper Submission                        April 4, 2011
Acceptance Notification                              May 3, 2011
Camera Ready (pre-proceedings)                May 30, 2011
Workshop                                June 9, 2011
Camera Ready (post-proceedings)                July 4, 2011

Workshop B 2011, colocated with FM 2011, Limerick, Ireland, june, 21, 2011

http://membres-liglab.imag.fr/idani/BWorkshop/index.html
IMPORTANT DATES
Abstract submission         March 3, 2011
Paper submission         March 10, 2011
Acceptance notification         April 12, 2011
Final version         May 4, 2011
Workshop         June 21, 2011

Sunday, February 13, 2011

the release of ProB for Rodin 2.1

We are happy to announce the release of 
    ProB for Rodin 2.1

Numerous improvements went into the latest release:
- constraint-based deadlock checker: finds counter-examples
to the deadlock freedom
PO using constraint-solving
- improved kernel with improved constraint solving
(in particular improved boolean
constraint solver)
- ProB can now efficiently solve integer constraints
using the finite domain solver
CLP(FD) (you can turn this feature on in 
the Preferences Dialog)
- improved LTL model checker with new counter-example display
- new, improved version of BMotionStudio to generate
graphical visualisations of
your models
- automatic record detection (when defining closed
records using Records plug-in or
manually using bijections on Cartesian products)
- 64-bit version of ProB for Mac OS X (performance
improvement; less hash collisions
in model checking; larger range for the integer 
constraint solver; ...)
- and many more.

To install ProB, first download Rodin 2.1, 
choose Help -> Install New Software and
simply choose the pre-configured ProB update site.
More detailed installation instructions and a brief 
tutorial can be found here:
 http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/ProB/index.php5/Tutorial_Rodin_First_Step

We have also released the new version 1.3.3 of ProB 
Classic, a version of ProB with
a Tcl/Tk interface.
It can be obtained at:
http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/ProB/index.php5/Download
ProB Classic, is a stand-alone application but can
be started automatically from
within Rodin by setting the ProB Classic preference.
ProB Classic provides some features which are not
yet available in the ProB for
Rodin version
(graphical visualisation of the state space, 
debugging of axioms with unsat core
computation, CSP support...).

Kind regards,
The ProB Team from Düsseldorf
http://www.stups.uni-duesseldorf.de/ProB/

Have we learned from the Wasa disaster ? J.R. Abrial

http://videotorium.hu/en/recordings/details/1674,Have_we_learned_from_the_Wasa_disaster_


The AE/IS `Charles Simonyi' Symposium: Grand Challenges of Informatics is a major event. Some 14 of the nest computer scientists will, over two days, present challenges within areas of 100% trustworthy software, quantum computing, biocomputing, economics and game theory, and the relations between informatics and mathematics. Thanks to Dr. Simonyi's donation the event will host some 40 young scientists from Central and Eastern European countries.