Deep Specifications
Formal verification of systems software requires specifications that are:
- rich (describing complex component behaviors in detail)
- two-sided (connected to both implementations and clients)
- formal (written in a mathematical notation with clear semantics to support tools such as type checkers, analysis and testing tools, automated or machine-assisted provers, and advanced IDEs)
- live (connected via machine-checkable proofs to the implementation and client code).
We call these deep specifications.
The DeepSpec @ PLDI 2018 workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in Deep Specifications. Our goal is to promote the development of new science, technology, and tools–for specifying what programs should do, for building programs that conform to those specifications, and for verifying that programs do behave exactly as specified. This workshop will examine the role of verification in the context of core software-systems infrastructure such as operating systems, programming-language compilers, and computer chips; with applications such as elections and voting systems, cars, and smartphones.
More Information
The workshop program is still under construction!
This workshop is being held as part of the Science of Deep Specifications research project, which is funded by the National Science Foundation. For more information, see DeepSpec.org.
Workshop
Five Minute Talks
DeepSpec @ PLDI 2018 will have a session devoted to five minute “lightning” talks. If you would like to participate, contact one of the workshop organizers (Steve Zdancewic or Stephanie Weirich) to submit a title and one-paragraph abstract. We will fill the available space on first-come/first-served basis.
Talks about all subjects of interest to the DeepSpec audience are welcome!
Mon 18 JunDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 60mTalk | The Science of Deep Specification DeepSpec Andrew W. Appel Princeton | ||
10:00 30mTalk | CakeML: from functions to machine code with proof all the way DeepSpec Magnus O. Myreen Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden | ||
11:00 - 12:15 | |||
11:00 30mTalk | Vellvm - Modular Semantics via Interaction Trees DeepSpec Steve Zdancewic University of Pennsylvania | ||
11:30 30mTalk | Crellvm DeepSpec Chung-Kil Hur Seoul National University | ||
14:00 - 15:40 | |||
14:00 30mTalk | Verifiable C, a logic and system for proving C programs correct DeepSpec | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Progress Report on the DeepSpec Web Server DeepSpec Benjamin C. Pierce University of Pennsylvania | ||
15:00 30mTalk | QuickChick: Random Testing in Coq DeepSpec Leonidas Lampropoulos University of Pennsylvania | ||
16:10 - 17:35 | |||
16:10 30mTalk | Real-Time CertiKOS: A Step Toward Resource Adaptive Certified OS Kernels DeepSpec Zhong Shao Yale University | ||
16:40 30mTalk | Verification Around the Hardware-Software Interface: Instruction Set, Processors, and Side Channels DeepSpec Adam Chlipala Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | ||
17:10 25mTalk | Using Kami in the field - experiences integrating Kami into SiFive's Chisel/Scala-based design flow DeepSpec Muralidaran Vijayaraghavan SiFive | ||
Tue 19 JunDisplayed time zone: Eastern Time (US & Canada) change
09:00 - 10:30 | |||
09:00 60mTalk | Modularity for Decidability: Implementing and Semi-Automatically Verifying Distributed Systems DeepSpec Mooly Sagiv Tel Aviv University | ||
10:00 30mTalk | Automation for High-Assurance Cryptography, for Primitives and Protocols DeepSpec | ||
11:00 - 12:15 | |||
11:00 30mTalk | Towards a formal semantics for GHC Core DeepSpec Stephanie Weirich University of Pennsylvania, USA | ||
11:30 30mTalk | Debugging Debug Information and Beyond DeepSpec Francesco Zappa Nardelli Inria | ||
14:00 - 15:40 | |||
14:00 30mTalk | Multicore and Multithreaded Linking for Concurrent CertiKOS DeepSpec Jieung Kim Yale University, USA | ||
14:30 30mTalk | Verifying seL4 towards Concurrency DeepSpec Thomas Sewell UNSW, Australia | ||
15:00 30mTalk | Specifying and Verifying Concurrent Programs with Ghost State DeepSpec William Mansky Princeton University | ||
16:10 - 17:35 | |||
16:10 5mTalk | 5-minute Lightning Talks DeepSpec | ||
16:15 5mTalk | Simplicity for Smart Contracts DeepSpec | ||
16:20 5mTalk | Machine-Verified Machine Learning DeepSpec Gordon Stewart Ohio University | ||
16:25 5mTalk | Verification of Union-Find in C DeepSpec | ||
16:30 5mTalk | Narcissus: Deriving Correct-By-Construction Decoders and Encoders from Binary Formats DeepSpec Clément Pit-Claudel MIT CSAIL | ||
16:35 5mTalk | LLVM's IR and Call-By-Push-Value Lambda Calculus DeepSpec | ||
16:40 5mTalk | A Formal Equational Theory for Call-By-Push-Value DeepSpec Christine Rizkallah The University of Melbourne | ||
16:45 5mTalk | Serializability for Distributed Protocols DeepSpec Joonwon Choi Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA | ||
16:50 5mTalk | A Quick Hack to ask any SMT Solver if my Coq Goal is True DeepSpec Samuel Gruetter Massachusetts Institute of Technology | ||
