Preface: Volume 89, Issue 4

Abstract

This volume contains the Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Bounded Model Checking Methods (BMC′2003). The Workshop was held in Boulder, Colorado, USA on July 13, 2003, as affiliated workshop to CAV′2003.The objective of BMC′03 was to bring together scientists from academia and industry to report and debate advances in Bounded Model Checking and related issues.Since its introduction in 1999 by Biere, Cimatti, Clarke and Zhu, Bounded Model Checking has been adopted by most relevant companies as a complementary technique to the more traditional BDD based unbounded symbolic model checking. Largely due to the advances in SAT technology in the last few years, Bounded Model Checking became a leading tool in detection of relatively shallow logical errors, outperforming BDD based tools in most of these cases. The large interest in this technology has created a constant stream of new ideas and improvements that make this technique more and more useful.The papers in this volume were reviewed by the program committee consisting, besides the two editors, ofDavid Basin(Freiburg Univ., Germany)Per Bjesse(Synopsys, USA)Alessandro Cimatti(IRST, Italy)Raanan Fraer(Intel, Israel)Danny Geist(IBM HRL, Israel)Alan Hu(Univ. of British Columbia, Canada)James Kukula(Synopsys, USA)Ken McMillan(Cadence, USA)Sharad Malik(Princeton Univ., USA)Mary Sheeran(Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden)Joao M. Silva(Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal)Toby Walsh(Univ.of York, UK)Yunshan Zhu(Synopsys, USA)Extended versions of some of these papers are considered to be published in a forthcoming special issue of the international Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT).July 13, 2003Ofer StrichmanArmin Biere