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 === Sunday, 16 June 2013 ===
-| 10.00-10.30 | //Christian Colombo:// Verifying Web Applications: From Business Level Specifications to Automated Model-Based Testing |
-| 10.30-11.00 | //Julian Samborski-Forlese:// TBA |
+^             ^ Title                 ^ Speaker ^
-| 11.00-11.30 | **Coffee break** |
+| 10.00-10.30 | {{:malta13-colombo.pptx|Verifying Web Applications: From Business Level Specifications to Automated Model-Based Testing}} | Christian Colombo |
-| 11.30-12.00 | //Tarmo Uustalu:// Coinductive big-step semantics for concurrency |
+| 10.30-11.00 | {{:malta13-samborski-forlese.pdf|Simulation Relations for Rich Acceptance Conditions}} | Julian Samborski-Forlese |
-| 12.00-12.30 | //Enric Rodriguez-Carbonell:// To Encode or to Propagate? The Best Choice for Each Constraint in SAT |
+| 11.00-11.30 | **Coffee break** ||
-| 12.30-14.00 | **Lunch** |
+| 11.30-12.00 | Coinductive big-step semantics for concurrency | Tarmo Uustalu |
-| 14.00-14.30 | //Tayssir Touilli:// Model-checking for efficient malware detection |
+| 12.00-12.30 | {{:malta13-rodriguez-carbonell.pdf|To Encode or to Propagate? The Best Choice for Each Constraint in SAT}} | Enric Rodriguez-Carbonell |
-| 14.30-15.00 | //Guillermo Perez:// Decidable Classes of Mean-Payoff Games with Imperfect Information |
+| 12.30-14.00 | **Lunch** ||
-| 15.00-15.30 | **Coffee break** |
+| 14.00-14.30 | Model-checking for Efficient Malware Detection | Tayssir Touilli |
-| 15.30-16.00 | //Gordon Pace:// Contract Analysis |
+| 14.30-15.00 | {{:malta13-perez.pdf|Decidable Classes of Mean-Payoff Games with Imperfect Information}} | Guillermo Perez |
-| 16.00-16.30 | //Jonas Jensen:// Fictional Separation Logic |
+| 15.00-15.30 | **Coffee break** ||
-| 16.30-17.30 | MC Meeting |
+| 15.30-16.00 | {{:malta13-pace.pdf|Reasoning About Contracts}} | Gordon Pace |
-| 19.30- | **Workshop dinner** |
+| 16.00-16.30 | {{:malta13-jensen.pdf|Fictional Separation Logic}} | Jonas Jensen |
+| 16.30-17.30 | MC Meeting ||
+| 19.30- | **Workshop dinner** ||
 === Monday, 17 June 2013 ===
-| 09.00-10.00 | Invited Speaker: **Manuel Hermenegildo** |
+^             ^ Title                 ^ Speaker ^
-| 10.00-10.30 | **Coffee break** |
+| 09.00-10.00 | {{:malta13-hermenegildo.pdf|Analysis and Verification ``of and with'' Horn Clauses (using the Ciao system) }}**(Invited Speaker)** | Manuel Hermenegildo |
-| 10.30-11.00 | //Tewodros Beyene:// Solving Existentially Quantfied Horn Clauses |
+| 10.00-10.30 | **Coffee break** ||
-| 11.00-11.30 | //Boriss Selajev:// Scaling dynamic logic for intermediate states |
+| 10.30-11.00 | {{:malta13-beyene.pdf|Solving Existentially Quantfied Horn Clauses}} | Tewodros Beyene |
-| 11.30-12.00 | //Ondrej Lengal:// Fully Automated Shape Analysis Based on Forest Automata |
+| 11.00-11.30 | {{:malta13-selajev.pdf|Scaling Dynamic Logic for Intermediate States}} | Boriss Selajev |
-| 12.00-12.30 | //Alejandro Sanchez:// Invariant Generation for Parametrized Systems using Self-Reflection |
+| 11.30-12.00 | {{:malta13-lengal.pdf|Fully Automated Shape Analysis Based on Forest Automata}} | Ondrej Lengal |
-| 12.30-14.00 | **Lunch** |
+| 12.00-12.30 | {{:malta13-sanchez.pdf|Invariant Generation for Parametrized Systems using Self-Reflection}} | Alejandro Sanchez |
-| 14.00-15.00 | Invited speaker: **John Gallagher** |
+| 12.30-14.00 | **Lunch** ||
-| 15.00-15.30 | **Coffee break** |
+| 14.00-15.00 | {{:malta13-gallagher.pdf|Verification by Abstraction and Specialisation of Constraint Logic Programs}} **(Invited speaker)** | John Gallagher |
-| 15:30-16:00 | //Siirtola Antti:// Object-Oriented Programs as Parameterised Systems |
+| 15.00-15.30 | **Coffee break** ||
-| 16.00-16.30 | //Filip Konecni:// Underapproximation of Procedure Summaries for Integer Programs |
+| 15:30-16:00 | {{:malta13-siirtola.pdf|Object-Oriented Programs as Parameterised Systems}} | Siirtola Antti |
-| 16.30-17.00 | //Paul Jackson:// Auditing User-provided Axioms in Software Verification Conditions |
+| 16.00-16.30 | {{:malta13-konecny.pdf|Underapproximation of Procedure Summaries for Integer Programs}} | Filip Konecni |
-| 17:00-17:30 | Discussion Session: Cross-fertilization between Logic Programming and CLP with Horn Clause Verification |
+| 16.30-17.00 | {{:malta13-jackson.pdf|Auditing User-provided Axioms in Software Verification Conditions}} | Paul Jackson |
+| 17:00-17:30 | {{:malta13-monniaux.pdf|Death by a Thousand Cuts (worst-case execution time by bounded model checking)}} | David Monniaux |
+| 17:30-18:00 | Discussion Session: Cross-fertilization between Logic Programming with CLP and Horn Clause Verification ||
 ===== General Information =====
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   * **High-level synthesis:** New algorithms for synthesis from high-level specifications. Extending decision procedures to perform synthesis tasks. Connections  between invariant generation and code synthesis.
-===== Talk Abstracts ====
+===== Talk Abstracts =====
+**Verifying Web Applications: From Business Level Specifications to Automated Model-Based Testing**
+//Christian Colombo//
+While the verification of web-based applications is crucial due to their often security-critical nature, it is considerably challenging due to their complex and dynamical nature. The current state of the art involves automated test execution where a test platform automatically interacts with a web application and asserts the expected behaviour. Still, test cases are typically generated manually, particularly when it comes to directing the test to exercise particular execution paths. In this presentation, we propose a novel combination of the QuickCheck testcase generation tool with web-based applications: QuickCheck exploits an executable automata-based specification to drive and assert the application in an automated yet non-random fashion. However, writing the specification is non-trivial and requires manual intervention. To this end, we propose a means of generating QuickCheck specifications from Cucumber specifications – a commonly used high level specification language for communicating with business stakeholders.
+----
+** Simulation Relations for Rich Acceptance Conditions **
+//Julian Samborski-Forlese//
+Antichain algorithms allow to obtain faster emptiness and model checking
+algorithms for alternating automata by postponing the state explosion
+inherent to the translation into equivalent non-deterministic automata.
+Antichains require computable simulation relations between sets of states in
+the alternating automaton which depend on the acceptance condition. So far,
+only Buchi conditions have been studied, which preclude the application of
+antichains to rich temporal logics like RLTL and PSL, for which more
+sophisticated acceptance conditions are used. In this talk we present
+simulation relations for some Rabin and Streett automata that enable the use
+of antichains for these richer temporal logics
+----
+** Coinductive big-step semantics for concurrency **
+//Tarmo Uustalu//
+Going against the popular statements that big-step semantics cannot handle
+nontermination (they would necessarily "lose" all nonterminating runs) and
+that concurrency is inherently small-step, I present a big-step semantics
+for shared-variable concurrency that accounts correctly for both
+terminating and nonterminating runs. This semantics is based on
+coinductive and mixed inductive-coinductive definitions of resumptions
+(computation trees), evaluation and termination-sensitive weak
+bisimilarity. Big-step reasoning offers a higher degree of
+compositionality as is exemplified eg by rely-guarantee style program
+logics that are in fact big-step and are more directly matched with
+big-step rather than small-step semantics. I develop the metatheory of the
+semantics in a constructive logic.
+----
+** To Encode or to Propagate? The Best Choice for Each Constraint in SAT **
+//Enric Rodriguez-Carbonell//
+Sophisticated compact SAT encodings exist for many types of
+constraints. Alternatively, for instances with many (or large)
+constraints, the SAT solver can also be extended with built-in
+propagators (the SAT Modulo Theories approach, SMT).  For
+example, given a cardinality constraint x_1 + ... + x_n <=
+k, as soon as k variables become true, such a propagator can
+set the remaining variables to false, generating a so-called
+explanation clause of the form x_1 /\ .../\ x_k
+-> ~ x_i.  But certain "bottle-neck" constraints
+end up generating an exponential number of explanations,
+equivalent to a naive SAT encoding, much worse than using a
+compact encoding with auxiliary variables from the beginning.
+Therefore, Abio and Stuckey proposed starting off with a full
+SMT approach and partially encoding, on the fly, only
+certain ``active'' parts of constraints.  Here we build upon
+their work.
+Equipping our solvers with some additional bookkeeping to monitor
+constraint activity has allowed us to shed light on the
+effectiveness of SMT: many constraints generate very few, or few
+different, explanations.
+We also give strong experimental evidence showing that it is typically
+unnecessary to consider partial encodings: it is competitive to encode
+the few really active constraints entirely. This makes the approach
+amenable to any kind of constraint, not just the ones for which
+partial encodings are known.
+This is joint work with Ignasi Abío, Robert Nieuwenhuis, Albert
+Oliveras and Peter J. Stuckey.
+----
+** Model-checking for efficient malware detection **
+//Tayssir Touilli//
+The number of malware is growing extraordinarily fast. Therefore, it is
+important to have efficient malware detectors. Malware writers try to
+obfuscate their code by different techniques. Many of these well-known
+obfuscation techniques rely on operations on the stack such as inserting
+dead code by adding useless push and pop instructions, or hiding calls
+to the operating system, etc. Thus, it is important for malware
+detectors to be able to deal with the program’s stack. In this paper we
+propose a new model-checking approach for malware detection that takes
+into account the behavior of the stack. Our approach consists in : (1)
+Modeling the program using a Pushdown System (PDS). (2) Introducing new
+logics, called SCTPL and SLTPL, to represent the malicious behavior.
+SCTPL (resp. SLTPL) can be seen as an extension of the branching-time
+temporal logic CTL (resp. the linear-time temporal logic LTL) with
+variables, quantifiers, and predicates over the stack. (3) Reducing the
+malware detection problem to the model-checking problem of PDSs against
+SCTPL/SLTPL formulas. We show how our new logics can be used to
+precisely express malicious behaviors that could not be specified by
+existing specification formalisms. We then consider the model-checking
+problem of PDSs against SCTPL/SLTPL specifications. We provide efficient
+algorithms to solve these problems. We implemented our techniques in a
+tool, and we applied it to detect several viruses. Our results are
+encouraging.
+In particular, our tool was able to detect more than 800 viruses.
+Several of these viruses could not be detected by well-known
+anti-viruses such as Avira, Avast, Norton, Kaspersky and McAfee.
+----
+** Decidable Classes of Mean-Payoff Games with Imperfect Information **
+//Guillermo Perez//
+Energy games and Mean-payoff games have been studied as two-player games
+with quantitative objectives. In the perfect information setting deciding
+the winner of such games is known to be in both NP and coNP yet only
+pseudo-polynomial time algorithms have been found for the
+original unmodified objectives. The problem of determining if an energy
+game with imperfect information has a winning strategy is known to be
+undecidable for the case when the initial credit is not fixed. The same is
+true for the problem of determining if a mean-payoff game with imperfect
+information has a winning strategy. We propose a new class of mean-payoff
+games with imperfect information for which the problem is known to be
+decidable and for which the aforementioned problem is EXPTIME-complete. We
+also consider the complexity of deciding if a given weighted game graph
+with imperfect information belongs to this class. In order to better
+understand the source of undecidability for these objectives under
+imperfect information we also consider related classes of weighted game
+graphs with imperfect information as well as the related class membership
+and existence of winning strategy problems.
+----
+** Contract Analysis **
+//Gordon J. Pace//
+The analysis of contracts to regulating interactive systems poses various challenges, but
+is closely linked to the notions of concurrency and synchrony. We present a number of
+recent results which take an automaton-based approach to model such contracts. We show how
+obligations, permissions and prohibitions can be formalised and how the norms on one of the
+parties sometimes imposes constraints on the other. Such formalisation allows for a clean
+ notion of contract strictness and a derived notion of contract conflict that is enriched
+with issues arising from party interdependence.
+//Joint work with Fernando Schapachnik and Gerardo Schneider.//
+----
+** Fictional Separation Logic **
+//Jonas Jensen//
+----
+** **
+//Manuel Hermenegildo//
+The talk will start with an overview of techniques for abstract
+interpretation-based program analysis and verification of constraint
+logic programs (CLP), with emphasis on the on top-down fixpoint
+algorithms used in the Ciao system (note that bottom-up techniques
+will be covered in John Gallagher's talk).  We will demonstrate the
+Ciao system analysis and verification-based program development
+environment, built around these techniques and capable of verifying
+shapes, modes, determinacy, non-failure, numerical properties, etc. as
+well as resources such as bandwidth, time, memory, or, more recently,
+energy. We will then address how, by using CLP as an intermediate
+representation, the approach (and the Ciao system itself) also
+supports the verification of similar properties in programs in other
+programming paradigms, including Java source or bytecode, and assembly
+code produced from C sources.  Finally, we present how the same
+fixpoint techniques are applied in the execution of Tabled LP programs
+(such as in the XSB system) and Tabled CLP programs (such as in the
+TCLP package of the Ciao system), which can be an interesting
+component for program analyzers for other programming paradigms.
+----
+** Solving Existentially Quantfied Horn Clauses **
+//Tewodros Beyene//
+Temporal verification of universal (i.e., valid for all computation paths)
+properties of various kinds of programs, e.g., procedural, multi-threaded,
+or functional, can be reduced to finding solutions for equations in form of
+universally quantified Horn clauses extended with well-foundedness
+conditions. Dealing with existential properties (e.g., whether there exists
+a particular computation path), however, requires solving forall-exists
+quantified Horn clauses, where the conclusion part of some clauses contains
+existentially quantified variables. For example, a deductive approach to
+CTL verification reduces to solving such clauses.
+The talk presents a method for solving forall-exists quantified Horn
+clauses extended with well-foundedness conditions. Our method is based on a
+counterexample-guided abstraction refinement scheme to discover witnesses
+for existentially quantified variables. We also present an application of
+our solving method to automation of CTL verification of software, as well
+as its experimental evaluation.
+----
+** Scaling dynamic logic for intermediate states **
+//Boriss Selajev//
+Standard sequential program logics are insufficient for reasoning
+about nonterminating program runs --- they essentially overlook them.
+But of course we want to reason also about nonterminating behaviors,
+especially in case of interactive programs. To remedy this deficiency,
+we are interested in identifying a useful extension of dynamic logic
+with modalities for predicating not only final, but also intermediate
+states of program runs. In this talk, I discuss some possible designs
+for such a program logic on the level of syntax, semantics and
+prospective axiomatizations. (Joint work with Keiko Nakata and Tarmo
+Uustalu.)
+----
+** Fully Automated Shape Analysis Based on Forest Automata **
+//Ondrej Lengal//
+Forest automata (FA) have recently been proposed as a tool
+for shape analysis of complex heap structures. FA encode sets of
+tree decompositions of heap graphs in the form of tuples of tree
+automata. In order to allow for representing complex heap graphs,
+the notion of FA allowed one to provide user-defined FA (called
+boxes) that encode repetitive graph patterns of shape graphs to be
+used as alphabet symbols of other, higher-level FA. In this paper,
+we propose a novel technique of automatically learning the FA to be
+used as boxes that avoids the need of providing them manually.
+Further, we propose a significant improvement of the automata
+abstraction used in the analysis. The result is an efficient,
+fully-automated analysis that can handle even as complex data
+structures as skip lists, with the performance comparable to
+state-of-the-art fully-automated tools based on separation logic,
+which, however, specialise in dealing with linked lists only.
+----
+** Invariant Generation for Parametrized Systems using Self-Reflection **
+//Alejandro Sanchez//
+We examine the problem of inferring invariants for parametrized systems.
+Parametrized systems are concurrent systems consisting of an a priori
+unbounded number of process instances running the same program. Such
+systems are commonly encountered in many situations including device
+drivers, distributed systems, and robotic swarms. In this talk, I will
+describe a technique that enables leveraging off-the-shelf invariant
+generators designed for sequential programs to infer invariants of
+parametrized systems. The central challenge in invariant inference for
+parametrized systems is that naïvely exploding the transition system with
+all interleavings is not just impractical but impossible. In our approach,
+the key enabler is the notion of a reflective abstraction that we prove has
+an important correspondence with inductive invariants. This correspondence
+naturally gives rise to an iterative invariant generation procedure that
+alternates between computing candidate invariants and creating reflective
+abstractions.
+This is joint work with Sriram Sankaranarayanan, César Sánchez and Bor-Yuh
+Evan Chang.
+----
+** Verification by abstraction and specialisation of constraint logic programs **
+//John Gallagher//
+This talk addresses the question of how static analysis and verification
+techniques for constraint logic programs (CLP) are applied to other
+formalisms.  First, the systematic translation of a variety of languages and
+systems to constraint logic programs is reviewed, using the established
+method of partial evaluation of semantics, proof rules and assertions
+represented as CLP meta-programs. Then the approximation of CLP programs
+using abstract interpretation is described, with implementation techniques
+using external engines to implement abstract domains.  Both numeric and
+symbolic abstract domains (tree automata) are considered. The talk focusses
+on verification based on approximation of program models (bottom-up
+semantics) rather than the alternative approach based on computation-tree
+operational semantics. The role of so-called "magic set" transformations and
+related techniques originating in Datalog is presented, enabling
+query-directed analysis in the same bottom-up framework. Analysis for proof
+of termination is also briefly reviewed. Thirdly, program transformations
+that preserve CLP models are presented; this leads to verification
+approaches in which a CLP program is successively specialised with respect
+to a query until the property of interest is made explicit.  Finally we look
+at abstract model checking based on CLP.  By applying standard abstract
+interpretation techniques it is shown how arbitrary CTL properties can be
+approximated without resorting to "dual" or "modal" transition systems.
+----
+** Object-Oriented Programs as Parameterised Systems **
+//Siirtola Antti//
+Object-oriented programs possess many parameters like the number of concurrent
+threads, the number of replicated objects and the number of nested function
+calls. Consequently, object-oriented programs are naturally modelled as
+multi-parameterised systems. In this talk, I present one way to model Java-like
+programs as parameterised systems in a CSP-style formalism. I also show how such
+parameterised models can be automatically model checked by utilising existing
+tools.
+----
+**  Underapproximation of Procedure Summaries for Integer Programs **
+//Filip Konecni//
+We show how to underapproximate the procedure summaries of recursive
+programs over the integers using off-the-shelf analyzers for
+non-recursive programs. The novelty of our approach is that the
+non-recursive program we compute may capture unboundedly many behaviors
+of the original recursive program for which stack usage cannot be
+bounded. Moreover, we identify a class of recursive programs on which
+our method terminates and returns the precise summary relations without
+underapproximation. Doing so, we generalize a similar result for
+non-recursive programs to the recursive case. Finally, we present
+experimental results of an implementation of our method applied on a
+number of examples.
+----
+** Auditing User-provided Axioms in Software Verification Conditions **
+//Paul Jackson//
+Sometimes software verification conditions (VCs) include user-provided
+axioms to capture aspects of program specifications or to give hints
+to help automatic provers. There is always the danger of mistakes in
+these axioms. In the worst case these mistakes introduce
+inconsistencies and VCs become erroneously provable.
+I'll discuss use of an SMT solver to investigate the quality of
+user-provided axioms employed in the formal verification of SPARK-Ada
+programs.
+----
+** TBD **
+//David Monniaux//
+===== Group Photo =====
+Group picture in Mdina, Malta:
+{{:2013-06-16_20-08-32.jpg?640|}}