Workshop on Quantitative Analysis of Software
on June 28, 2009 in Grenoble, France
Colocated with
CAV 2009
Formal verification of software has mostly been concerned
with Boolean properties of code, such as, are assertions satisfied,
are all buffer accesses within bounds, does it always terminate, is there any
undesirable information flow, etc..
However, often times it is desirable to ask more
quantitative questions about software, such as, what is the expected
number of bugs in the software and what is the mean-time between
failures (to faciliate decisions about software releases),
how much resources (e.g., time, memory, power) does it consume
(for performance analysis, and to provide guarantees for
embedded, real-time systems), how much information does it leak or how
well is it obfuscated (for security related issues).
This workshop will aim to explore novel techniques for quantitative analysis
of software. It is particularly focussed on code-level analysis
rather than analysis purely of models of software or systems.
All techniques are
welcome, including static, dynamic, and probabilistic analyses.
The aim of this workshop is bring together researchers from different areas
(programming languages, software engineering, embedded systems, performance analysis,
computer security, formal verification, randomized/approximation algorithms, etc.)
who are interested in any quantitative
aspect of software, thereby providing a platform to investigate if there are
common techniques that could be applied to a range of quantitative analyses.
Novelty of the approach and applicability of techniques to code-level
analysis will be given high weightage in evaluating papers.
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