Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation [electronic resource] : 4th International Conference, VMCAI 2003, New York, NY, USA, January 9-11, 2003, Proceedings /

Invited Talks -- Software Model Checking with Abstraction Refinement -- Model-Checking and Abstraction to the Aid of Parameterized Systems -- Invited Tutorials -- Behavior-Based Model Construction -- Automatic Verification by Abstract Interpretation -- Symmetry Reductions in Model-Checking -- Static Analysis -- CHASE:A Static Checker for JML’s Assignable Clause -- Abstract Interpretation-Based Certification of Assembly Code -- Property Checking Driven Abstract Interpretation-Based Static Analysis -- Optimized Live Heap Bound Analysis -- Dynamic Systems -- Complexity of Nesting Analysis in Mobile Ambients -- Types for Evolving Communication in Safe Ambients -- A Logical Encoding of the ?-Calculus: Model Checking Mobile Processes Using Tabled Resolution -- Abstract Interpretation -- Properties of a Type Abstract Interpreter -- Domain Compression for Complete Abstractions -- Abstraction of Expectation Functions Using Gaussian Distributions -- Model Checking I -- Lifting Temporal Proofs through Abstractions -- Efficient Verification of Timed Automata with BDD-Like Data-Structures -- On the Expressiveness of 3-Valued Models -- Security Protocols -- Bisimulation and Unwinding for Verifying Possibilistic Security Properties -- Formal Verification of the Horn-Preneel Micropayment Protocol -- Formal Methods -- Action Refinement from a Logical Point of View -- Reasoning about Layered Message Passing Systems -- Using Simulated Execution in Verifying Distributed Algorithms -- Model Checking II -- Efficient Computation of Recurrence Diameters -- Shape Analysis through Predicate Abstraction and Model Checking.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Veri?cation, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI 2003), held in New York city, January 9–11, 2003. The purpose of VMCAI was to provide a forum for researchers from three communities—Veri?cation, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation—that will facilitate interaction, cross-fertilization, and the advance of hybrid methods that combine the three areas. With the g- wingneedforformaltoolstoreasonaboutcomplex,in?nite-state,andembedded systems, such hybrid methods are bound to be of great importance. Topics covered by VMCAI include program veri?cation, static analysis te- niques, model checking, program certi?cation, type systems, abstract domains, debugging techniques, compiler optimization, embedded systems, and formal analysis of security protocols. VMCAI 2003 was the fourth VMCAI meeting. The previous three were held as workshops (Port Je?erson 1997, Pisa 1998, and Venice 2002). It is the success of the last meeting, and the wide response it generated, that made it clear the time had come to make it an annual conference.