Caltech Workshop on Verification and Validation

	Caltech Workshop on Verification and Validation
	23-24 September 2009 Pasadena, CA

Description

Formal verification and validation (V&V) have been subject to research in controls, computer science, and networking but often in isolation from each other. With recent convergence of controls, computation, and communication, there is a need for unified theories and algorithms. Despite advances in V&V tools in respective areas, such unification is in its infancy. Moreover, rigorous V&V for systems of current interest is a complicated task due to common difficulties including the interaction the software and the physical world, untraditional information flow, modeling/environmental uncertainties, and unavoidable explosion of computational complexity of the currently available tools (in both domains).

We believe that the success of formal methods and V&V in the intersection of controls, computer science, and networking is stringent on the development truly hybrid methods that blend ideas from all these areas and possibly others. The main purpose of the proposed workshop is to bring experts from academia, industry, and governmental agencies together and promote exchange of ideas and establishment of interdisciplinary collaborations. We will emphasize the integration of the tools and ideas from these fields to lead to a unified toolset. Moreover, we are expecting to highlight current trends and future directions in V&V research as well as industrial needs and requirements for V&V through outlook sessions and talks by experts from the industry and government agencies.

Invited speakers

• Rajeev Alur, Univ of Pennsylvania
• Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund Univ
• Calin Belta, Boston Univ
• Michael Branicky, NSF & Case Western Reserve Univ
• Mani Chandy, Caltech
• Ed Clarke, Carnegie Mellon Univ
• Domitilla Del Vecchio, Univ of Michigan
• Eric Feron, Georgia Inst of Tech
• Gerard Holzmann, JPL
• Stephen Jacklin, NASA Ames
• Nancy Leveson, MIT
• Rupak Majumdar, UCLA
• Sayan Mitra, Univ of Illinois
• Andrew Packard, UC Berkeley
• Andre Platzer, Carnegie Mellon Univ
• Yaniv Saar,
• Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley
• Paulo Tabuada, UCLA
• Ashish Tiwari, SRI
• Stavros Tripakis, UC Berkeley & Verimag
• Brian Williams, MIT

Workshop Venue

Main conference room in Annenberg Building

Annenberg Building is a new building on the Caltech campus and is not on the campus maps. A campus map with the location of the building marked will be available here soon.

Hotel and Travel

A block of rooms at The Sheraton Pasadena Hotel for the nights of September 22-24:

303 East Cordova Street, Pasadena, CA 91101

Phone: (626) 449-4000

Map

Reservation information

- Reservations are to be made by the individual calling the hotel directly at (626) 449-4000 or 1-800-457-7940 and asking for the Reservations Department. Please use the group rate for the Caltech Workshop on Verification and Validation.

- If you cannot make the call to the hotel, please inform us for assistance.

- The cut-off date for the availability of this block of rooms is September 1st. Please try to reserve your rooms before this date or let us know for extensions.

Getting to Caltech

LAX to Caltech

Take Sepulveda Blvd. to the Glen Anderson Fwy (105) east to the Harbor Fwy (110) north to the Pasadena Fwy, which becomes the Arroyo Parkway. Take the Arroyo Parkway straight ahead (north); turn right (east) on Del Mar Blvd. Turn right onto Holliston and park in the lot. Parking permits are available on the third level (follow the signs).

Shuttle van services from/to LAX

Burbank Airport to Caltech

Take the Golden State Fwy (Interstate 5) south to the Ventura Fwy (134) east to the Foothill Fwy (210) east. Exit Hill Avenue; turn right (south) onto Hill. Take Hill south to Del Mar Blvd.; turn right (west) onto Del Mar. Turn left onto Holliston (first street) and park in the lot. Parking permits are available on the third level (follow the signs).

Local transportation from/to Burbank Airport (click on Transportation in the left menu)

Organizers

• Mani Chandy (Caltech, CS)
• Richard Murray (Caltech, CDS)
• Paulo Tabuada (UCLA, ECE)
• Ufuk Topcu (Caltech, CDS)

The Caltech Verification and Validation Workshop, 2009 is sponsored by Caltech's Center of the Mathematics of Information and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (through the MURI "Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Embedded Systems").