Festschrift Symposium: Programme


Monday 24th September 2007


08.40 - 08.45  Mike Reed.  Welcome

08.45 - 09.00  Mathai Joseph.  A survey of the work of Dines Bjørner & Zhou Chaochen

09.00 - 09.30  Nikolaj Bjørner.  Models and Software Model Checking of a Distributed File Replication System

09.30 - 10.00  Andrew Butterfield.  A Denotational Semantics for Handel-C

10.00 - 10.30  Yinghua Chen, Bican Xia, Lu Yang, Naijun Zhan.  Generating Polynomial Invariants with DISCOVERER and QEPCAD


10.30 - 11.00  Coffee Break


11.00 - 11.30  Daguang Liu, Peng Wu, Huimin Lin.  Symbolic Test Generation Using a Temporal Logic with Constrained Events

11.30 - 12.00  Werner Damm, Alfred Mikschl, Jens Oehlerking, Ernst-Rüdiger Olderog, Jun Pang, André Platzer, Marc Segelken, Boris Wirtz.  Automating Verification of Cooperation, Control, and Design in Traffic Applications

12.00 - 12.30  Dang Van Hung.  Specifying Various Time Models with Temporal Propositional Variables in Duration Calculus


12.30 - 14.00  Lunch at the Golden Dragon Hotel



14.00 - 14.30  Asger Eir.  Relating Domain Concepts Intensionally by Ordering Connections

14.30 - 15.00  Elsa Estevez, Tomasz Janowski.  Programmable Messaging for Electronic Government - Building A Foundation

15.00 - 15.30  John Fitzgerald, Peter Gorm Larsen.  Balancing Insight and Effort: the Industrial Uptake of Formal Methods


15.30 - 16.00  Tea Break


16.00 - 16.30  Leo Freitas, Jim Woodcock.  Proving theorems about JML classes

16.30 - 17.00  Chris George, Padmanabhan Krishnan, P.A.P. Salas and J.W. Sanders.  Specification for Testing

17.00 - 17.30  Michael R. Hansen, Jan Madsen, Aske Wiid Brekling.  Semantics and verification of a language for modelling hardware architectures

17.30 - 18.00  Natarajan Shankar.  Title to be announced


19.30 Dinner at the Tung Yee Heen Restaurant, Mandarin Oriental Hotel
Speakers: John Fitzgerald & He Jifeng. 


Tuesday 25th September 2007


09.00 - 09.30  Anne Haxthausen, Jan Peleska.  A Domain-oriented, Model-based Approach for Construction and Verification of Railway Control Systems

09.30 - 10.00  He Jifeng.  Compensable Programs

10.00 - 10.30  Cliff Jones, Ian Hayes, Michael A. Jackson.  Deriving specifications for systems that are connected to the physical world


10.30 - 11.00  Coffee Break


11.00 - 11.30  Mathai Joseph.  Engineering the Development of Embedded Systems

11.30 - 12.00  John Knudsen, Anders Ravn, Arne Skou.  Design Verification Patterns

12.00 - 12.30  Hans Langmaack.  On Revival of Algol-Concepts in Modern Programming and Specification Languages


12.30 - 14.00  Lunch at the Golden Dragon Hotel


14.00 - 14.30  Xiang Ling, Tom Maibaum, Nazareno Aguirre.  Design in CommUnity with Extension Morphisms

14.30 - 15.00  Zhenbang Chen, Xiaoshan Li, Zhiming Liu, Volker Stolz, Lu Yang.  Harnessing rCOS for Tool Support:: the CoCoME Experience

15.00 - 15.30  Xinxin Liu.  Expansive-bisimulation for context-free processes


15.30 - 16.00  Tea Break


16.00 - 16.30  Peter Mosses.  VDM Semantics of Programming Languages: Combinators and Monads

16.30 - 17.00  Martin Penicka.  Formal Approach to Railway Applications

17.00 - 17.30  Wolfgang Reisig, Jan Bretschneider, Dirk Fahland, Niels Lohmann, Peter Massuthe, Christian Stahl.  Services as a Paradigm of Computation

17.30 - 17.45  Mike Reed.  The legacy of Dines Bjørner & Zhou Chaochen