ETAPS'98

Tuesday, March 31st

09:00

Invited Lecture

Some mistakes I made and what I learned from them

Cliff Jones (Harlequin Ltd, UK)

10:00

Coffee

10:30

FoSSaCS

FASE

TACAS

The Church-Rosser languages are the deterministic variants of the growing context-sensitive languages, G.Niemann and F.Otto (U Kassel, D)

Demos:

Fully local and efficient evaluation of alternating fixed points, X.Liu, CR.Ramakrishnan and SA.Smolka (State U New York at Stony Brook, USA)
On piecewise testable, starfree, and recognizable picture languages, O.Matz (U Kiel, D) ALBERT: a formal language and its supporting tools for requirements engineering, E.Dubois (U Namur, B) Modular model checking of software, K.Laster and O.Grumberg (Technion, IL)
Deterministic rational transducers and random sequences, S.Porrot and M.Dauchet (U Lille, F) RELVIEW - a system for calculating with relations and relational programming, R.Behnke, R.Berghammer, E. Meyer and P.Schneider (U Kiel, D) Verification based on local states, M.Huhn, P.Niebert (U Hildesheim, D) and F.Wallner (U Munich, D)
The WHILE hierarchy of program schemes is infinite, C.Albayrak and T.Noll, (RWTH Aachen, D) MOBY/PLC - a Design Tool for Hierarchical Real-Time Automata, J.Tapken (U Oldenburg, D) Exploiting symmetry in linear time temporal logic model checking: one step beyond, K.Ajami (U Pierre et Marie Curie, F), S.Haddad (U Pierre et Marie Curie, F) and J-M.Ilie (U Paris Dauphine, F)
12:30

Lunch

14:30

FoSSaCS

FASE

TACAS

A Cook's tour of equational axiomatizations for prefix iteration, L.Aceto (BRICS, DK), W.Fokkink (U Wales, UK) and A.Ingölfsdöttir (U Firenze, I) Compositional verification of distributed systems specified by graph transformation, R.Heckel (U Pisa, I) Open/Caesar: an open software architecture for verification, simulation, and testing, H.Garavel (INRIA, F)
Pumping Lemmas for timed automata, D.Beauquier (U Paris 12, F) A rule-based refinement of high-level nets preserving safety properties, J.Padberg, M.Gajewsky and C.Ermel (TU Berlin, D) Practical model checking using games, P.Stevens and C.Stirling (U Edinburgh, UK)
The appearance of big integers in exact real arithmetic based on linear fractional transformations, R.Heckmann (U Saarlandes, D) Refining formal specifications of human computer interaction by graph rewrite rules, B.Sucrow (U Essen, D) Combining finite automata, parallel programs and SDL using Petri nets, B.Grahlmann (U Hildesheim, D)
Partial metrics and co-continuous valuations, M.Bukatin (Brandeis U, USA) and S.Yu.Shorina (Moscow State U, R) Distributed safety controllers for web services, A.Sandholm and MI.Schwartzbach (U Aarhus, DK) MESA: support for scenario-based design of concurrent systems, H.Ben-Abdallah (U Sfax, TN) and S.Leue (U Waterloo, CA)
16:30

Coffee

17:00

Panel discussion

Paradigms of software science - technical versus human aspects

chair: Kai Koskimies (NRC/Hki, FI)

18:30

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