SoftMC 2003: Workshop on Software Model Checking

Abstract

This volume contains the Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Software Model Checking, which was held on 14 July 2003 in Boulder, Colorado. The Workshop was a satellite event of the Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV) 2003.The first Workshop on Software Model Checking (SoftMC) was held in 2001. Since that time, the field has grown tremendously and we've made a lot of progress in pushing the state-of-the-art. We are now entering a stage where the strengths and limitations of the current approaches are perhaps better understood. With this in mind we invited Dawson Engler to open the workshop with a presentation on using both static analysis and model checking for finding errors in programs. A companion paper to this presentation is included in the proceedings.But, what does the future hold? Can we analyze real programs? Will software model checking ever be push-button? Do we (only) care about finding errors? Can we leverage SAT technology like hardware model checking does? Hopefully we answered some of these questions and more at the 2003 Workshop on Software Model Checking. Our intention for this second workshop was to help provide a springboard for the next phase of development in software model checking.The call for papers resulted in 18 submissions, of which 8 were selected for presentation. The selection process consisted of each paper receiving 3 reviews, followed by a virtual Program Committee meeting. This year the selection process was particularly hard, due to the high level of the submissions, and we are very grateful to the PC and the additional reviewers for their efforts in this regard.Program CommitteeByron Cook (Microsoft)David Dill (Stanford University)Patrice Godefroid (Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies)Susanne Graf (Verimag)Gerard Holzmann (NASA/JPL Laboratory for Reliable Software)Radu Mateescu (INRIA Rhône-Alpes/VASY)Scott Stoller (State University of New York at Stony Brook)Willem Visser (RIACS/NASA Ames Research Center)Additional Reviewers: Aurore Collomb, Shuvendu Lahiri, Frederic Lang, Jacob Lichtenberg, Kedar Namjoshi and Wendelin SerweWe would also like to thank Microsoft Research for generously providing financial support and the CAV 2003 organizers for their help in organizing the workshop.