2nd Workshop on Reachability Problems

September 15–17, 2008, Liverpool, UK

Programme of RP'2008 Workshop

The workshop takes place from Monday (15.09.08) 9.00 am till Wednesday 1.00 pm (17.09.08).

 

 

Monday, 15 September, 2008

 

8:30-9:25

Registration

9:25-9:30

Workshop opening

9:30-10:30

Invited Talk

Reachability in the Infinite: Decidability and Limitations

Wolfgang Thomas

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Falsifying Safety Properties Through Games on Over-approximating Models.

Nathaniel Charlton and Michael Huth.

11:30-12:00

The Reach-and-Evolve Algorithm for Reachability Analysis of Nonlinear Dynamical Systems. 

Pieter Collins and Goldsztejn Alexandre.

12:00-12:30 

Approximated Reachability on Hybrid Automata: Falsification meets Certification.

Kerstin Bauer, Raffaella Gentilini and Klaus Schneider.

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:30

Reachability in Petri Nets with Inhibitor arcs.

Klaus Reinhardt.

14:30-15:00

Dynamic Slicing Techniques for Petri Nets.

Marisa Llorens, Javier Oliver, Josep Silva, Salvador Tamarit and German Vidal

15:00-15:30

Analyzing Reachability for Some Petri Nets with Fast Growing Markings.

M. Praveen and Kamal Lodaya

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Invited Talk

Monotonic Abstraction in Parameterized Verification  

Parosh Aziz Abdulla

17:30

Excursion: Liverpool City Guided Sightseeing Coach Tour

(meeting point: Ashton Building, ground floor at 17:20 )

 

 

 

Tuesday, 16 September, 2008

 

9:30-10:30

Invited Talk

Reachability via Cooperating Morphisms

Juhani Karhumäki

10:30-11:00

Coffee Break

11:00-11:30

Switching Graphs.

Jan Friso Groote and Bas Ploeger.

11:30-12:00

The Length of Subset Reachability in Nondeterministic Automata.

Pavel Martyugin.

12:00-12:30 

A Universal Cellular Automaton on the Ternary Heptagrid.

Maurice Margenstern and Yu Song.

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-14:30

The Compositional Method and Regular Reachability.

Ingo Felscher.

14:30-15:00

A new Algorithm for Partitioned Symbolic Reachability Analysis.

Kai Lampka.

15:00-15:30

Handling Left-Quadratic Rules When Completing Tree Automata.

Yohan Boichut, Romeo Courbis, Pierre-Cyrille Heam and Olga Kouchnarenko.

15:30-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:00

Invited Talk

Dependency Tree Automata

Colin Stirling

19:00

Conference Dinner (60 Hope Street, Liverpool)

 

 

 

Wednesday, 17 September, 2008

 

9:30-10:30

Tutorial on the Petri Net Reachability Problem (Informal presentation)

Kamal Lodaya

10:30-11:00

Solving  Coverability Problems by Supercompilation (Informal presentation)

Alexei Lisitsa and Andrei Nemytykh

11:00-11:15

Coffee Break

11:15-11:45

The Complexity of Satisfiability for Fragments of CTL and CTL*.

Arne Meier, Martin Mundhenk

11:45-12:15 

An Inverse Method for Parametric Timed Automata.

Etienne Andre, Fribourg Laurent, Thomas Chatain and Emmanuelle Encrenaz

12:15-13:30

Lunch

 

13:30-19:00

 

Workshop on Grand Challenges of Unconventional Computation

Location: Seminar Room, Department of Physiology,

University of Liverpool

Organiser: Prof. Christian Calude.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are most welcome to attend the following events for free: