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4th Workshop on Quantitative Aspects of Programming Languages

Vienna, Austria - April 1 - 2, 2006

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Programme


Programme of Saturday, April 1

09:15 - 10:30 SESSION 1

09:15 - 09:30   Welcome
09:30 - 10:30   Invited Talk
    Modelling and verification of real-time systems with UML and IF: some experimental results and future plans
    Susanne Graf (VERIMAG, Grenoble)

10:30 - 11:00   Coffee
11:00 - 12:30   SESSION 2

Sochastic Models
    Trace semantics for Stochastic Systems with Nondeterminism
    Verena Wolf, Christel Baier, Mila Majster-Cederbaum
    Institut fur Informatik, University of Mannheim (Germany)

    Component-Oriented Specification of Performance Measures
    Alessandro Aldini, Marco Bernardo
    Istituto STI, University of Urbino (Italy)

    Stochastic Ambient Calculus
    M.G. Vigliotti, P.G. Harrison
    Department of Computing, Imperial College (UK)


12:30 - 14:00   Lunch
14:00 - 15:30   SESSION 3

14:00 - 15:00   Invited Talk
    On the Power of a Single Clock
    Joel Ouaknine (Oxford, UK)
15:00 - 15:30   Paper Presentation
    Timers for Distributed Systems
    Gabriel Ciobanu, Cristian Prisacariu
    Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy (Romania)

15:30 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 17:30 SESSION 4

Process Calculi
    Beta-binders for biological quantitative experiments
   Pierpaolo Degano, Davide Prandi, Corrado Priami, Paola Quaglia
    Dipartimento di Informatica e Telecomunicazioni, Univ. di Trento (Italy)

    Expressiveness of probabilistic $pi$-calculi
    Sylvain Pradalier, Catuscia Palamidessi
    Lix, Ecole Politechnique (France)

    Stochastic Fusion Calculus
    Gabriel Ciobanu, Laura Cornacel
    Institute of Computer Science, Romanian Academy (Romania)

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Programme of Sunday, April 2

09:00 - 10:30   SESSION 1

09:00 - 10:00   Invited Talk
    Cryptographic Fulfilment of Distributed-System Specifications
    Birgit Pfitzmann (IBM, Zurich)

10:00 - 10:30   Abstract Presentation
    Towards a Quantitative Analysis of Security Protocols
    Pedro Adao, Paulo Mateus, Tiago Reis, Luca Vigano
    Information Security, ETH Zurich (Switzerland)

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee
11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 2

Java
    Quantitative Static Analysis over semirings: application to cache behaviour analysis of Java Card byte code
    Pascal Sotin, David Cachera, Thomas Jensen
    IRISA (France)

    Exact and Portable Profiling for the JVM Using Bytecode Instruction Counting
    Walter Binder, Jarle Hulaas
    EPFL (Switzerland)

    Return Value Prediction meets Information Theory
    Jeremy Singer, Gavin Brown
    University of Manchester (UK)

12:30 - 14:00   Lunch
14:00 - 15:30   SESSION 3

14:00 - 15:00   Invited Talk
    Stochastic Klaim and its logic: A Formal Approach Towards Dependable Global Computing
    Rocco De Nicola (Florence, Italy)

15:00 - 15:30 Abstract Presentation
    Formal Analysis of Streaming Downloading Protocol for System Upgrading
    Miaomiao Zhang, Dang Van Hung
    UNU-IIST, Tongji University (China)

15:30 - 16:00   Break
16:00 - 17:00   SESSION 4

Declarative Programming
    Stochastic Concurrent Constraint Programming
    Luca Bortolussi
    University of Udine (Italy)

    Quantitative Datalog Semantics for Databases with Uncertain Information
    Daniel Stamate
    Department of Computing, Goldsmiths University of London (UK)






For any questions, please contact the program chairs: qapl06 at di.unipi.it