Computer Aided Verification: 18th International Conference, CAV 2006, Seattle, WA, USA, August 17-20, 2006, Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, cartea 4144

Invited Talks.- Formal Specifications on Industrial-Strength Code—From Myth to Reality.- I Think I Voted: E-Voting vs. Democracy.- Playing with Verification, Planning and Aspects: Unusual Methods for Running Scenario-Based Programs.- The Ideal of Verified Software.- Session 1. Automata.- Antichains: A New Algorithm for Checking Universality of Finite Automata.- Safraless Compositional Synthesis.- Minimizing Generalized Büchi Automata.- Session 2. Tools Papers.- Ticc: A Tool for Interface Compatibility and Composition.- FAST Extended Release.- Session 3. Arithmetic.- Don’t Care Words with an Application to the Automata-Based Approach for Real Addition.- A Fast Linear-Arithmetic Solver for DPLL(T).- Session 4. SAT and Bounded Model Checking.- Bounded Model Checking for Weak Alternating Büchi Automata.- Deriving Small Unsatisfiable Cores with Dominators.- Session 5. Abstraction/Refinement.- Lazy Abstraction with Interpolants.- Using Statically Computed Invariants Inside the Predicate Abstraction and Refinement Loop.- Counterexamples with Loops for Predicate Abstraction.- Session 6. Tools Papers.- cascade: C Assertion Checker and Deductive Engine.- Yasm: A Software Model-Checker for Verification and Refutation.- Session 7. Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation.- SAT-Based Assistance in Abstraction Refinement for Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation.- Automatic Refinement and Vacuity Detection for Symbolic Trajectory Evaluation.- Session 8. Property Specification and Verification.- Some Complexity Results for SystemVerilog Assertions.- Check It Out: On the Efficient Formal Verification of Live Sequence Charts.- Session 9. Time.- Symmetry Reduction for Probabilistic Model Checking.- Communicating Timed Automata: The More Synchronous, the More Difficult to Verify.- Allen Linear (Interval) Temporal Logic – Translation to LTL and Monitor Synthesis.- Session 10. Tools Papers.- DiVinE – A Tool for Distributed Verification.- EverLost: A Flexible Platform for Industrial-Strength Abstraction-Guided Simulation.- Session 11. Concurrency.- Symbolic Model Checking of Concurrent Programs Using Partial Orders and On-the-Fly Transactions.- Model Checking Multithreaded Programs with Asynchronous Atomic Methods.- Causal Atomicity.- Session 12. Trees, Pushdown Systems and Boolean Programs.- Languages of Nested Trees.- Improving Pushdown System Model Checking.- Repair of Boolean Programs with an Application to C.- Session 13. Termination.- Termination of Integer Linear Programs.- Automatic Termination Proofs for Programs with Shape-Shifting Heaps.- Termination Analysis with Calling Context Graphs.- Session 14. Tools Papers.- Terminator: Beyond Safety.- CUTE and jCUTE: Concolic Unit Testing and Explicit Path Model-Checking Tools.- Session 15. Abstract Interpretation.- SMT Techniques for Fast Predicate Abstraction.- The Power of Hybrid Acceleration.- Lookahead Widening.- Session 16. Tools Papers.- The Heuristic Theorem Prover: Yet Another SMT Modulo Theorem Prover.- LEVER: A Tool for Learning Based Verification.- Session 17. Memory Consistency.- Formal Verification of a Lazy Concurrent List-Based Set Algorithm.- Bounded Model Checking of Concurrent Data Types on Relaxed Memory Models: A Case Study.- Fast and Generalized Polynomial Time Memory Consistency Verification.- Session 18. Shape Analysis.- Programs with Lists Are Counter Automata.- Lazy Shape Analysis.- Abstraction for Shape Analysis with Fast and Precise Transformers.