SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED: MAY 25, 2009 Call for Papers SAVCBS'09 Workshop at ESEC/FSE 2009, August 25, 2009 http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/ The eighth workshop on specification and verification of component-based systems is affiliated with ESEC/FSE 2009 and will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 25, 2009. Eight page papers are due May 25, 2009. Details on paper submission follow the general description of the workshop below. Theme and Topics of Interest SAVCBS is focused on using formal (i.e., mathematical) techniques to establish a foundation for the specification and verification of component-based systems. Specification techniques are urgently needed to support effective reasoning about systems composed from components. Component-based approaches also underscore the need for scaling advanced verification techniques such as extended static analysis and model checking to the size of real systems. The workshop will consider formalization of both functional and non-functional behavior (such as performance or reliability). Suggested research topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Techniques for component-based verification or reasoning * Component-based specification languages * Static analysis of components and component compositions * Verification-oriented design methodologies for components * Dynamic checking techniques, including run-time assertion or property checking * Specification and verification of non-functional component behavior (performance, memory, concurrency, etc.) * Unifying formal descriptions of concurrency properties with model-based behavioral descriptions of components * Balancing tradeoffs (automatic/manual verification, soundness/completeness, static/dynamic verification, testing/formal verification, scalability/coverage, etc.) * Theories of component composition * Industrial experience, such as adoption issues, with formal techniques for component-based systems * Case studies of applying formal techniques to component based systems * Educational experience or tactics for formal approaches to component-based systems Submissions should outline the current state of research or practice, describe the most pressing shortcomings, and formulate goals for future development. Challenge Problem One session during the workshop will be devoted to presenting solutions (full or partial) to a challenge problem. This problem will present features that pose difficulties for current specification technologies. The session will be open both to presenters as well as participants of the workshop. Details on the challenge problem will be posted at http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/2009/challenge.shtml. Solutions should illustrate innovative features of specification or verification as they pertain to this particular problem. Submissions Submissions must not exceed 8 pages. We encourage, but do not require, use of the ACM Conference format. We also suggest that you add page numbers to your submission, to make adding comments easier. Papers will be accepted in PDF or Postscript formats. Papers may be submitted on-line at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=savcbs09 . We are considering to invite best papers for submission to a journal special issue. Important dates: Paper submission deadline: May 25, 2009 Notification date: June 10, 2009 Final versions: June 20, 2009 See http://www.eecs.ucf.edu/SAVCBS/ for more details. Workshop Program Committee: Marieke Huisman - University of Twente, Netherlands (chair) Jonathan Aldrich - Carnegie Mellon University, USA Marsha Chechik - University of Toronto, Canada Jens Chr. Godskesen - IT University, Denmark Alex Groce - Nasa JPL, USA Dilian Gurov- KTH, Sweden Barbara Jobstmann - EPFL, Switzerland Florian Kammüller - Technical University of Berlin, Germany Joe Kiniry - University College Dublin, Ireland Darko Marinov - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Peter Müller - ETH Zurich, Switzerland John Penix - Google, USA Koushik Sen - University of California, Berkeley, USA Natasha Sharygina - University of Lugano, Switzerland/Carnegie Mellon University, USA Murali Sitaraman - Clemson University , USA