Wednesday 26th September 2007


08.55 - 09.00

Mike Reed.  Welcome

09.00 - 10.00  Invited Talk 1

Dines Bjørner.  Domain Theory: Practice and Theories.  A Discussion of Possible Research Topics


10.00 - 10.30  Coffee Break


 

10.30 - 11.00  Automata Theory

Roussanka Loukanova.  Linear Context Free Languages.

11.00 - 12.30  Concurrency 1

Bogdan Aman and Gabriel Ciobanu.  Mobile Ambients with Timers and Types

Damian Barsotti and Javier Blanco.  Automatic Refinement of Split Binary Semaphore

Xinxin Liu and Haiyan Chen.  Deciding weak bisimilarity of normed context-free processes using tableau


12.30 - 14.00  Lunch at the Golden Dragon Hotel


 

14.00 - 15.30  Semantics & Logics 1

Alessandro Lapadula, Rosario Pugliese and Francesco Tiezzi.  COWS: A timed service-oriented calculus

Christophe Fouquere.  A logical calculus for modelling interferences

Jing Li, Huibiao Zhu and Jifeng He.  Algebraic Semantics for Compensable Transactions


15.30 - 16.00  Tea Break


 

16.00 - 18.00 Specification & Verification 1

Christelle Scharff and Silvio Ranise.  Building Extended Canonizers by Graph-Based Deduction

Fredrik Degerlund and Kaisa Sere.  A Framework for Incorporating Trust into Formal Systems Development

Martin Leucker and Cesar Sanchez.  Regular Linear Temporal Logic

Masaki Nakamura and Kokichi Futatsugi.  On equality predicates in algebraic specification languages


Thursday 27th September 2007


 

09.00 - 10.00  Invited Talk 2

Zhou Chaochen.  Discovering Non-Linear Ranking Functions by Solving Semi-Algebraic Systems.


10.00 - 10.30  Coffee Break


 

10.30 - 11.00  Case Studies

Andrea Matta, et al.  FM for FMS: Lessons Learned while Applying Formal Methods to the Study of Flexible Manufacturing Systems

11.00 - 12.30  Concurrency 2

Robert Colvin and Brijesh Dongol.  Verifying lock-freedom using well-founded orders

Takashi Kitamura and Huimin Lin.  Controlling process modularity in mobile computing

Virginia Niculescu.  Data-Distributions in PowerList Theory


12.30 - 14.00  Lunch at the Golden Dragon Hotel


 

14.00 - 15.00  Invited Talk 3

 He Jifeng.  Linking Semantic Models

15.00 - 15.30  Theory

Ignacio Fábregas, Miguel Palomino and David Frutos Escrig.  Reflection and preservation of properties in coalgebraic (bi)simulations


15.30 - 16.00  Tea Break


 

16.00 - 17.30  Semantics & Logics 2

John Fisher and Marc Bezem.  Skolem Machines and Geometric Logic

Pablo Castro and Tom Maibaum.  A Complete and Compact Propositional Deontic Logic

Rafael del Vado Vírseda.  A Higher-Order Demand-driven Narrowing Calculus with Definitional Trees


19.30   Dinner at the Convention & Exhibition Center, Macau Fisherman's Wharf

Speaker: Chris George.


Friday 28th September 2007


 

09.00 - 10.30  Semantics & Logics 3

Stefan Rieger and Thomas Noll.  Composing Transformations to Optimize Linear Code

Wanwei Liu, Ji Wang, Wei Dong and Huowang Chen.  Axiomatizing Extended Temporal Logic Fragments via Instantiation

Zhilin Wu.  On the expressive power of QLTL


10.30 - 11.00  Coffee Break


11.00 - 12.30  Specification & Verification 2

Pascal Coupey, Christophe Fouquere and Jean-Vincent Loddo.  Tree Components Programming: an application to XML

Pontus Boström, Lionel Morel and Marina Walden.  Stepwise development of Simulink models using the refinement calculus framework

Romain Péchoux, Jean-Yves Marion and Guillaume Bonfante.  Quasi-interpretation Synthesis by Decomposition: An Application to Higher-Order Programs


12.30 - 14.00  Lunch at the Golden Dragon Hotel


 

14.00 - 15.00  Concurrency 3

Maciej Koutny and Brian Randell.  Failures: Their Definition, Modelling and Analysis

Zining Cao.  Bisimulations for a Distributed Higher Order pi-Calculus


15.00 - 15.30  Tea Break


 

15.30 - 16.30  Real-time Systems

Catalin Dima and Ruggero Lanotte.  Distributed time-asynchronous automata

K. Subramani.  A randomized algorithm for BBCSPs in the Prover-Verifier Model

 

16.30

Mike Reed.  Close