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                            VMCAI 2009

              The Tenth International Conference on
     Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation

               Savannah, GA, USA, January 18-20, 2009

         Conference website: http://cs.uni-muenster.de/vmcai09

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VMCAI provides a forum for researchers from the communities of
Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation,
facilitating interaction, cross-fertilization, and advancement of
hybrid methods. VMCAI'09 is co-located with the POPL'09 conference.

The program of VMCAI'09 will consist of invited lectures, tutorials,
refereed research papers, and tool demonstrations. Research
contributions can report new results as well as experimental
evaluations and comparisons of existing techniques. Topics include,
but are not limited to:

     program verification          program certification
     model checking                debugging techniques
     abstract interpretation       abstract domains
     static analysis               type systems
     deductive methods             optimization

Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent,
constraint, functional, imperative, logic and object-oriented programming.
Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English,
and
must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that
are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed
proceedings. The proceedings will  be published by Springer in
the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.

The page limit for submissions is 15 pages in Springer's LNCS format.
Additional material may be placed in an appendix, to be read at the
discretion
of the reviewers. Formatting style files can be found at:

     http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Please visit the conference website for more information.

Invited Speakers:

     Allen Emerson, co-recipient of 2008 Turing Award (Univ. of Texas):
        Model Checking: Progress and Problems

     Aarti Gupta (NEC Labs, Princeton):
        Model Checking Concurrent Multi-Threaded Programs

     Mooly Sagiv (Tel-Aviv University):
        Thread Modular Shape Analysis

Invited Tutorials:

     Byron Cook (Microsoft Research, Cambridge):
        Proving Program Termination and Liveness

     Veronique Cortier (LORIA, CNRS, Nancy):
        Verification of Security Protocols

Important Dates:

     Submission Deadline:        Friday, August 22, 2008
     Notification of Acceptance: Friday, October 6, 2008
     Final Version Due:          Friday, October 31, 2008
     Conference:                 January 18-20, 2009

Program Chairs:

     Neil Jones, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
     Markus M|ller-Olm, Universitdt M|nster, Germany

Program Committee:

     Christel Baier, Technische Universitdt Dresden, Germany
     Ahmed Bouajjani, Universiti Paris 7, France
     Michael Codish, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
     Patrick Cousot, Icole Normale Supirieure, Paris, France
     Javier Esparza, Technische Universitdt M|nchen, Germany
     Klaus Havelund, NASA JPL, USA
     Michael Huth, Imperial College London, Great-Britain
     Bengt Jonsson, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
     Sorin Lerner, University of California, San Diego, USA
     Francesco Logozzo, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
     Pete Manolios, Northeastern University, Boston, USA
     Amir Pnueli, New York University, USA
     C. R. Ramakrishnan, SUNY at Stony Brook, NY, USA
     Andrey Rybalchenko, MPI, Saarbr|cken, Germany
     Helmut Seidl, Technische Universitdt M|nchen, Germany
     Henny Sipma, Stanford University, USA
     Carolyn Talcott, SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA
     Greta Yorsh, Tel Aviv University, Israel

Steering Committee:

     Tino Cortesi, Universita' Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy
     Patrick Cousot, Icole Normale Supirieure, France
     E. Allen Emerson, University of Texas at Austin, USA
     Giorgio Levi, University of Pisa, Italy
     Andreas Podelski, Universitdt Freiburg, Germany
     Thomas W. Reps, University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA
     David Schmidt, Kansas State University, USA
     Lenore Zuck, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Sponsors:

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
European Association for Programming Languages and Systems (EAPLS)
Microsoft Research