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HILT '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM SIGAda annual conference on High integrity language technology
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Conference:
HILT 2013: High Integrity Language Technology ACM SIGAda Annual Pittsburgh Pennsylvania USA November 10 - 14, 2013
ISBN:
978-1-4503-2467-0
Published:
10 November 2013
Sponsors:
Ada Europe, SIGAda
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Abstract

Welcome to Pittsburgh and to HILT 2013, this year's annual international conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on the Ada Programming Language (SIGAda).

HILT 2013 features a top-quality technical program focused on the issues associated with high integrity software -- where a failure could cause loss of human life or have other unacceptable consequences -- and on the solutions provided by language technology. "Language technology" here encompasses not only programming languages but also languages for expressing specifications, program properties, domain models, and other attributes of the software or the overall system.

HILT 2013 consists of two days of tutorials, and three days of conference sessions. The tutorials cover a wide range of topics: Ada 2012, proving safety of parallel and multi-threaded programs, Formula 2.0: a language for formal specification and a tool for automated analysis, satisfiability modulo theories for high integrity development, practical specification and verification with code contracts, bounded model checking for high-integrity software, and service oriented architecture concepts and implementation.

The conference program includes keynote and invited presentations from internationally recognized experts:

  • Edmund M. Clarke (Carnegie Mellon University, 2007 Turing Award Winner), on Model Checking and the Curse of Dimensionality;

  • Jeannette Wing (Microsoft Research), on Formal Methods: An Industrial Perspective;

  • John Goodenough (Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute), on Building Confidence in System Behavior; and

  • Michael Whalen (University of Minnesota), on Up and Out: Scaling Formal Analysis Using Model-Based Development and Architecture Modeling.

HILT 2013 conference sessions deal with a range of topics associated with safe, secure and reliable software: formal verification technologies and toolsets, high-integrity parallel programing, model-based integration and code generation, architecture level design languages and compositional verification, and approaches to software safety and security. You will learn the latest developments in software verification technologies, and hear industrial presentations from practitioners. The accompanying exhibits will give you the opportunity to meet vendors and find out about their latest offerings. Vendors include AdaCore (Platinum Level); Microsoft Research (Gold Level); Ellidiss, Verocel (Silver Level); and LDRA, MathWorks (Basic Level).

At HILT 2013 you will learn about both the challenges confronting high integrity software and the solutions available to address them. Perhaps just as important are the social interactions that you get at a live conference: the chance to meet and talk with researchers and practitioners in industry, academia, and government, to ask them questions, and to explain your own work and interests. These renewed and new associations can be as valuable as the technical program at professional conferences, and their benefits will continue to reward you well after you return home.

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TUTORIAL SESSION: Pre-conference tutorials
tutorial
Tutorial: proving safety of parallel / multi-threaded programs

This tutorial will introduce the attendees to analysis and proof techniques for programs using parallelism and multi-threading. There are no specific prerequisites, but a familiarity with the notions of preconditions and postconditions, aliasing, race ...

tutorial
Engineering domain-specific languages with formula 2.0

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are useful for capturing and reusing engineering expertise. They can formalize industrial patterns and practices while increasing the scalability of verification, because input programs are written at a higher level of ...

tutorial
Satisfiability modulo theories for high integrity development
tutorial
Practical specification and verification with code contracts

In this tutorial I will introduce CodeContracts, the .NET solution for contract specifications. CodeContracts consist of a language and compiler-agnostic API to express contracts, and of a set of tools to automatically generate the documentation and to ...

tutorial
Bounded model checking of high-integrity software

Model checking [5] is an automated algorithmic technique for exhaustive verification of systems, described as finite state machines, against temporal logic [9] specifications. It has been used successfully to verify hardware at an industrial scale [6]. ...

tutorial
Service-oriented architecture (SOA) concepts and implementations

This tutorial explains how to implement a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for reliable systems using an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) and the Ada Web Server (AWS). The first part of the tutorial describes terms of Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) ...

SESSION: Underlying formal verification technologies
abstract
Technology for inferring contracts from code

Contracts are a simple yet very powerful form of specification. They consists of method preconditions and post-conditions, of object invariants, and of assertions and loop invariants. Ideally, the programmer will annotate all of her code with contracts ...

SESSION: Formal verification toolsets
short-paper
SAW: the software analysis workbench

Galois has developed a suite of symbolic simulation and formal analysis tools, collectively called the Software Analysis Workbench (SAW). SAW provides security analysts and engineers with the ability to generate formal models from C and Java programs ...

short-paper
short-paper
Towards the formalization of SPARK 2014 semantics with explicit run-time checks using coq

We present the first steps of a broad effort to develop a formal representation of SPARK 2014 suitable for supporting machine-verified static analyses and translations. In our initial work, we have developed technology for translating the GNAT compiler'...

SESSION: High integrity parallel programming
research-article
Real-time programming on accelerator many-core processors

Multi-core platforms are challenging the way software is developed, in all application domains. For the particular case of real-time systems, models for the development of parallel software must be able to be shown correct in both functional and non-...

research-article
Bringing safe, dynamic parallel programming to the spark verifiable subset of ada

SPARK is a verifiable subset of Ada which has been in use for over 20 years for developing the most critical parts of complex real-time applications [1][2]. A restricted subset of the Ada tasking model is included in the newer versions of SPARK ("...

SESSION: Invited talk -- model-based engineering
invited-talk
Up and out: scaling formal analysis using model-based development and architecture modeling

Systems are naturally constructed in hierarchies in which design choices made at higher levels of abstraction ``flow down'' to requirements on system components at lower levels of abstraction. Thus, whether an aspect of the system is a design choice or ...

SESSION: Model-based integration and code generation
short-paper
An approach to integration of complex systems: the SAVI virtual integration process

The SAVI approach to integration embodies three fundamental concepts: (1) an architecture-centric emphasis (wrapped around an annotated architectural model with analyses carried out at the system level after modifications); (2) a component-based ...

SESSION: Keynote address -- building confidence
keynote
Building confidence in system behavior

If the use of Ada (or SPARK or some other tool) increases our confidence in the behavior of high integrity software systems, why does it do so? What do we mean by confidence, and what is a justified basis for asserting some level of confidence? In this ...

SESSION: Architecture-level design languages and compositional verification
research-article
Compositional verification of a medical device system

Complex systems are by necessity hierarchically organized. Decomposition into subsystems allows for intellectual control, as well as enabling different subsystems to be created by distinct teams. This decomposition affects both requirements and ...

research-article
Illustrating the AADL error modeling annex (v.2) using a simple safety-critical medical device

Developing and certifying safety-critical and highly reliable systems almost always includes significant emphasis on hazard analysis and risk assessment. There have been substantial improvements in automation and formalization of other aspects of ...

SESSION: Keynote address -- formal methods
keynote
Formal methods: an industrial perspective

Formal methods research has made tremendous progress since the 1980s when a proof using a theorem prover was worthy of a Ph.D. thesis and a bug in a VLSI textbook was found using a model checker. Now, with advances in theorem proving, model checking, ...

SESSION: Approaches to software safety and security
abstract
Automatic versus interactive program verification

We report on experiences in using two very different program verification technologies. One of them is based on object-oriented assertion languages and it comes with automatic static verification of object-oriented programs. The other technology is ...

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Acceptance Rates

HILT '13 Paper Acceptance Rate 9 of 17 submissions, 53%;
Overall Acceptance Rate 27 of 48 submissions, 56%
YearSubmittedAcceptedRate
HILT '14201260%
HILT '1317953%
HILT '1211655%
Overall482756%