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

Abstract

Usually, greater concurrency is the goal of any distributed system, yet distribution also introduces issues of consistency and separate failure domains. With the increase of device connectivity and virtualization techniques, developing correct and reliable concurrent and distributed systems characterized by high performance is notoriously difficult. This requires novel verification techniques, or extensions, adaptations and improvements of existing ones, to address emergent problems. The track on Verification and Validation of Concurrent and Distributed Systems aims to discuss key challenges that need to be tackled in order to enable the efficient and scalable assurance of modern concurrent and distributed systems, as well as present methods and tools that bear the promise to achieve the latter.