Grand Challenge 6 Workshop on Dependable Systems Evolution


18 July 2005, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

A one-day Workshop on Monday 18 July 2005 at the FM05 Formal Methods Conference , Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 18-22 July 2005 , organized by the GC6 Committee .


(External)

BCS The (External) British Computer Society (BCS) generously sponsored this event.

See confirmed speakers/titles below. The programme and

(New) full proceedings (2Mbytes) are also available. This was Workshop 3 on the Registration Form of the FM05 conference and was located in Beehive 221 . Please note that you may register independently of the main conference if you wish.

Main organizers/chairs


Jonathan Bowen
Institute for Computing Research
London South Bank University
Faculty of BCIM, Borough Road
London SE1 0AA
email: jonathan.bowen@lsbu.ac.uk
tel: 020 7815 7462
fax: 020 7815 7793

Jim Woodcock
Department of Computer Science
University of York
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
email: jim@cs.york.ac.uk
tel: 01904 434335
fax: 01227 726811


BCS-FACS Paul Boca (Secretary of the BCS Formal Aspects of Computing Science Specialist Group) helped with the organization of the Workshop and his attendance was supported by BCS-FACS .

General Information

Website: www.fmnet.info/gc6/fm05

The (External) UK Computing Research Committee has been discussing how best to advance computing research; they held a workshop in Edinburgh in November 2002, which produced seven proposals for grand challenges in computer science. This workshop was part of a series that brings together international researchers to discuss the sixth challenge on Dependable Systems Evolution , which was inspired by the challenge of the (External) Verifying Compiler .

The long-term aim of the project is to produce a coherent software engineering tool-set based on formal principles, to aid in the development, deployment, and evolution of dependable systems; and to submit the tools to convincing large-scale evaluation on a heterogeneous range of challenge codes. The aim of this particular workshop was to produce an authoritative account of the current state of the art in strong software engineering tool-sets, and their application to systems that have been deployed in practice.

Topics of interest include the following areas:

  • Tools: descriptions of existing tools; capabilities and limitations; comparisons with other tools; plans for extensions; integration of tools.
  • Applications: experiences of strong software engineering; scalability; application domains, including all areas of dependability and evolution.
  • Position papers: theoretical issues, levels of assurance, suitable exemplars, future technologies, annotated bibliographies, technical problems and obstacles.

We may base a survey article on the accepted papers and workshop discussion.

Speakers and titles

(New) Links from titles below are to slides where available or further information otherwise. See also introduction .

The programme and

(New) proceedings (2Mbytes) are available. Information about a new EPSRC VSR-net (Verified Software Repository) Network was also be given at the Workshop, starting in September 2005 for three years.

Maintained by Prof. Jonathan Bowen
Last updated 12 August 2005

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