Verification and Validation of Concurrent and Distributed Heterogeneous Systems (Track Summary)

Abstract

A major trend in computing during the last decade has been the ubiquity of distributed, heterogeneous systems that make use of multi-languages for implementation, or services delivered by IoT devices. Since all distributed systems must, by their very nature, make use of some form of concurrent programming, the latter becomes even more challenging than traditionally, with the increase of hardware concurrency and sources of heterogeneity. In this context, developing reliable, safe and secure distributed systems, without sacrificing performance, is notoriously difficult. This requires novel models, logical notations, and verification techniques, or extensions, improvements and combinations of existing ones, to capture the behavior of such systems and provide guarantees that they meet various specific requirements. The track on Verification and Validation of Concurrent and Distributed Heterogeneous Systems aims to present and discuss advances of formal methods applicable to the assurance of different kinds of heterogeneous systems, as well as new insights provided by validating the methods on real-world case studies.