icaps 2011 - VVPS. Verification and Validation for Planning and Scheduling Systems

VVPS. Verification and Validation for Planning and Scheduling Systems

The VVPS workshop aims to enhance a stable forum on relevant topics connected to contaminations between V&V and P&S. The workshop will deepen the debate on relevant aspects of interactions between V&V methods and P&S-based systems. Important goals are to investigate new solutions and identify open issues.

Call for Papers

Topic and Objectives

Planning and scheduling (P&S) systems are finding increased application in safety- and mission-critical systems that require a high level of assurance. However, tools and methodologies for verification and validation (V&V) of P&S systems have received relatively little attention. Therefore, important goals of the workshop are (i) to encourage the ongoing interaction between P&S and V&V communities, (ii) to identify innovative tools and methodologies (iii) and to elicit open issues and real challenges.

The workshop also aims to enhance a stable, long-term establishment of a forum on relevant topics connected to the influence between V&V and P&S. The workshop series began in 2005 with the first edition of the workshop during ICAPS '05 and continued in 2009 with the second edition during ICAPS '09. These workshops presented a stimulating environment where researchers could discuss about the opportunities and challenges in integrating V&V and P&S.

Topics of interest include: V&V of domain models, using technologies such as static analysis, theorem proving, and model checking; consistency and completeness of domain models; domain model coverage metrics; regression, stress and boundary testing; runtime verification of plan executions; generation of robust plans; compositional verification of domain models; how to structure domain models which are more amenable to static analysis; inspection methods; the relationship between timed automata and domain models; investigations of the impact wrt. V&V of procedural versus declarative plan models; application of P&S techniques to V&V; Planning as model checking; etc.

Important Dates

Paper submission: February 11, 2011
Notifications of acceptance/rejection: March 11, 2011
Final version due: April 8, 2011
Workshop Date: June 13th, 2011 (TBC)
Submissions

There are two types of submissions: short position statements and regular papers. Position papers are a maximum of 2 (two) pages. Regular papers are a maximum of 10 (ten) pages. Papers should be submitted via the VVPS easychair website and should follow the format indicated. All papers should be typeset in the AAAI style, described at http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php removing AAAI copyright. Accepted papers will be published on the workshop website and printed as a hard-copy.

A selection of the accepted papers will be published in a special issue of the International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer.

Any additional question can be directed towards the general workshop contact email: vvps11-AT-easychair.org

Organization Chairs

Saddek Bensalem
VERIMAG, France
saddek.bensalem-AT-imag.fr
Klaus Havelund
NASA JPL, USA
klaus.havelund-AT-jpl.nasa.gov
Andrea Orlandini
ITIA-CNR, Italy
andrea.orlandini-AT-itia.cnr.it
Programme Committee

Howard Barringer (University of Manchester, UK)
Andreas Bauer (NICTA, Australia)
Saddek Bensalem (Verimag/UJF, France) (Co-Chair)
Amedeo Cesta (ISTC-CNR, Rome, Italy)
Alessandro Cimatti (FBK, Trento, Italy)
Alexandre David (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Giuseppe Della-Penna (University of L'Aquila, L'Aquila, Italy)
Lucas Dixon (University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK)
Bernd Finkbeiner (Saarland University, Germany)
Alberto Finzi (University of Naples, Naples, Italy)
Maria Fox (University of Strathclyde, UK)
Dimitra Giannakopoulou (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Enrico Giunchiglia (University of Genova, Italy)
Alex Groce (Oregon State University, USA)
Klaus Havelund (JPL, USA) (Co-Chair)
Gerard Holzmann (JPL, USA)
Felix Ingrand (LAAS-CNRS, France)
Hadas Kress-Gazit (Cornell University, USA)
Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
Martin Leucker (Technische Universität München, Germany)
Lee McCluskey (University of Huddersfield, UK)
David Musliner (SIFT, USA)
Andrea Orlandini (ITIA-CNR, Milan, Italy) (Co-Chair)
Corina Pasareanu (NASA Ames Research Center, USA)
Charles Pecheur (Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium)
Paul Pettersson (Malardalen University, Sweden)
Douglas Smith (Kestrel Institute, USA)