8th International Workshop on
Parallel and Distributed Methods in verifiCation

PDMC 2009

Wednesday, November 4, 2009, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Collocating with Formal Methods 2009, November 2 - November 6, 2009
and other related events for the first time under the heading of Formal Methods Week.



Preliminary Workshop Programme


8:55 - 9:00 OPENING

9:00 - 10:00 INVITED TALK
Parallel symbolic state-space exploration is difficult, but what is the alternative?
     Gianfranco Ciardo (University of California at Riverside, USA)

10:00 - 10:30 SPECIAL P2P TRACK paper
Formal Aspects of Grid Brokering
     Attila Kertesz and Zsolt Nemeth
10:30 - 11:00 COFFEE BREAK

11:00 - 11:30 PDMC REGULAR TALK
Distributed Branching Bisimulation Minimization by Inductive Signatures
     Stefan Blom and Jaco van de Pol
11:30 - 12:00 PDMC REGULAR TALK
Efficient parallel statistical Model Checking of Biochemical Networks
     Paolo Ballarini, Tommaso Mazza, Davide Prandi and Michele Forlin
12:00 - 12:30 PDMC REGULAR TALK
Tarmo: A Framework for Parallelized Bounded Model Checking
     Siert Wieringa, Matti Niemenmaa and Keijo Heljanko

12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH

14:00 - 14:30 PDMC REGULAR TALK
An Efficient Explicit-time Description Method for Timed Model Checking
     Hao Wang and Wendy MacCaull
14:30 - 15:00 PDMC REGULAR TALK
Parallelizing Deadlock Resolution in Symbolic Synthesis of Distributed Programs
     Fuad Abujarad, Borzoo Bonakdarpour and Sandeep Kulkarni
15:00 - 15:30 TOOL Presentation
DiVinE-CUDA - A Tool for GPU Accelerated LTL Model Checking
     Jiri Barnat, Lubos Brim and Milan Ceska
15:30 - 16:00 COFFEE BREAK

16:00 - 16:20 WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORT
Efficient Explicit-State Model Checking on General Purpose Graphic Processors
     Stefan Edelkamp and Damian Sulewski

16:20 - 16:40 WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORT
MC-LAB: A Model Checking Laboratory
     Thorsten Hoeger and Martin Leucker

16:40 - 17:00 WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORT
Workflow Verification with DiVinE
     Nazia Leyla, Ahmed Mashiyat, Hao Wang and Wendy MacCaull

17:00 - 17:20 WORK-IN-PROGRESS REPORT
Parallel Model Checking of Event-B Specification with ProB
     Jens Bendisposto and Michael Leuschel

17:20 - 18:00 Open Session - Discussion