HOWARD-60: Higher Workshop on Automatated Runtime Verification and Debugging

An upcoming exciting event. The Workshop HOWARD-60 dedicated to the anniversary of a good friend: Howard Barringer. This is a very exciting event and a tremendous honor to be an invited speaker.

HOWARD-60 is bringing scientists from both academia and industry together to debate on how to monitor, analyse and guide the execution of programs to ensure their correctness. The ultimate longer term goal is to investigate the use of lightweight formal methods applied during the execution of programs from the following two points of view. On the one hand, whether runtime application of formal methods is a viable complement to the traditional methods proving programs correct before their execution, such as model checking and theorem proving. On the other hand, whether formality improves traditional ad-hoc monitoring techniques used in performance monitoring, distributed debugging, etc. Dynamic program monitoring and analysis can occur during testing or during operation.

The workshop is Festschrift celebrating Howard Barringer’s 60th Birthday and hosted by CICADA and CS, the University of Manchester.