Deadline Approaching: Numerical Software Verification 2014

7th International Workshop on Numerical Software Verification

July 17-18, 2014

A Sattelite Workshop of Vienna Summer of Logic 2014, Collocated with CAV 2014
Vienna, Austria


Web Page: http://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~bouissou/NSV14


Important Dates
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Submissions deadline: March 20th 2014.
Notification: May 4th 2014.
Final version: May 25th 2014.
Workshop: July 17th-18th 2014.


Novelty of this edition
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The 2014 edition of NSV will be published electronically by Elsevier in the Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science Serie (ENTCS).

In this new NSV edition, we encourage publications about the numerical issues in new domains, in particular computational finance and biological systems: problems, consequences and state-of-the-art approaches.


Description of the Workshop
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Numerical computations are ubiquitous in digital systems: supervision, prediction, simulation and signal processing rely heavily on numerical calculus to achieve desired goals. Verification of numerical algorithms has a unique set of challenges, which set it apart from the rest of software verification. To achieve the verification and
validation of global properties, numerical techniques need to precisely represent local behaviors of each component. In fact, in numerical algorithms, coarse abstractions are unlikely to succeed essentially because of the above mentioned issue. The implementation of numerical techniques on modern hardware adds another layer of
approximation: the use of finite representations of infinite precision numbers usually lack basic arithmetic properties such as commutativity and associativity. It is hence imperative to develop logical and mathematical techniques that would allow reasoning about programmability and reliability. The NSV workshop is dedicated to the
current development and the future prospects for such techniques.


Topics
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The scope of the workshop includes, but is not restricted to, the
following topics:

• Models and abstraction techniques
• Specifications of correctness for numerical programs
• Formal specification and verification of numerical programs
• Quality of finite precision implementations
• Propagation of uncertainties, deterministic and probabilistic models
• Numerical properties of control software
• Hybrid systems verification
• Validation for space, avionics, automotive and real-time applications
• Validation for scientific computing programs
• Optimality of program behavior
• Trade-offs between quality of service and resource (for example energy) consumption in programs
• Benchmarks and tools for numerical software verification
• Numerical issues in computational finance

Submission information
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We solicit regular and short papers.
Paper submission must be performed via the EasyChair system:

http://easychair.org/?conf=nsv14

Regular papers must describe original work, be written and presented
in English, and must not substantially overlap with papers that have
been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a
conference with refereed proceedings. Submitted papers will be judged
on the basis of significance, relevance, correctness, originality, and
clarity. They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and
why it is significant.

Regular paper submissions should not exceed 15 pages in ENTCS style,
including bibliography and well-marked appendices:
http://www.entcs.org/prelim.html
Program committee members are not required to read the appendices, and
thus papers must be intelligible without them.

Short papers are also welcomed, they should present tools, benchmarks,
case-studies or be extended abstracts of ongoing research. Short
papers should not exceed 6 pages.

Regular papers will be published electronically by Elsevier in the
Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science serie ENTCS), all
accepted (regular and short) papers will also be included in the
Vienna Summer of Logic USB-stick distributed to all participants to the VSL.



Confirmed Invited Speakers
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* Jean-Michel Muller, LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon
* Sumit Kumar Jha, University of Central Florida, Orlando


Organizers
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Olivier Bouissou, CEA, LIST
Khalil Ghorbal, Carnegie Mellon University

All questions about the workshop can be addressed to them via email:
nsv2014@easychair.org


Program Committee
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• Sylvie Boldo -Inria
• Olivier Bouissou CEA, LIST
• Jyotirmoy Deshmukh -Toyota Technical Center
• Khalil Ghorbal

Carnegie Mellon University

• Eric Goubault CEA, LIST
• Sylvie Putot

CEA, LIST

• Sriram Sankaranarayanan -Boulder University