MEMOCODE 2020 will be held as a virtual conference in light of the current COVID-19 situation

MEMOCODE 2020 Program

All times are Pacific Standard Time (PST)

December 2


6:00 - 6:30 am: Introduction


6:30 - 7:30 am: Keynote Talk
Moshe Vardi
Speaker: Moshe Vardi (Rice University)
Title: The Siren Song of Temporal Synthesis
Chair: S. Arun-Kumar (IIT Delhi)


Session 1: Hybrid Systems
Chairs: Thao Dang (Verimag)

7:45 - 8:05 am Mir Md Sajid Sarwar, Rajarshi Ray and Ansuman Banerjee.
A Contrastive Plan Explanation Framework for Hybrid System Models.
8:05 - 8:25 am Mariia Vasileva, Fedor Shmarov and Paolo Zuliani.
Probabilistic Reachability for Uncertain Stochastic Hybrid Systems via Gaussian Processes
8:25 - 8:45 am Luan Nguyen, Gautam Mohan, James Weimer, Oleg Sokolsky, Insup Lee and Rajeev Alur.
REAFFIRM: Model-Based Repair of Hybrid Systems for Improving Resiliency

Session 2: Verification
Chairs: Paolo Zuliani (Newcastle University, UK), Stefan Mitsch (Carnegie Mellon University)

9:00 - 9:20 am Ratan Lal, Weikang Duan and Pavithra Prabhakar.
Bayesian Statistical Model Checking for Continuous Stochastic Logic
9:20 - 9:40 am Nikhil Naik and Pierluigi Nuzzo.
Robustness Contracts for Scalable Verification of Neural Network-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems.
9:40 - 10:00 am Moon Soo Kim, Weiwei Ai, Partha Roop, Nathan Allen, Rohit Ramchandra and Julian Paton.
Formal Modeling and Verification of Rate Adaptive Pacemakers for Heart Failure.

December 3

6:45 - 7:45 am: Keynote Talk
Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli
Speaker: Alberto Sangiovanni Vincentelli (UC Berkeley)
Title: Cyber Physical Systems: Status, Research and Business Opportunities
Chairs: Pierluigi Nuzzo (USC)


Session 3: Safe and Trustworthy Autonomy
Chairs: Matthew Kuo (Auckland University of Technology, NZ), Mamoun Filali (IRIT-CNRS)

8:00 - 8:20 am Mohammed Foughali, Saddek Bensalem, Jacques Combaz and Félix Ingrand.
Runtime Verification of Timed Properties in Autonomous Robots
8:20 - 8:40 am Piergiuseppe Mallozzi, Pierluigi Nuzzo, Patrizio Pelliccione, and Gerardo Schneider.
CROME: Contract-Based Robotic Mission Specification
8:40 - 9:00 am Tomoya Yamaguchi, Bardh Hoxha, Jyotirmoy V. Deshmukh and Danil Prokhorov.
Specification-guided Software Fault Localization for Autonomous Mobile Systems

Session 4: Scheduling, Routing, and Security
Chairs: Stephen A. Edwards (Columbia University, USA), Mamoun Filali (IRIT-CNRS)

9:15 - 9:35 am Dominik Walter, Michael Witterauf and Jürgen Teich.
Real-time Scheduling of I/O Transfers for Massively Parallel Processor Arrays
9:35 - 9:55 am Maryam Bagheri, Edward A. Lee, Eunsuk Kang, Marjan Sirjani, Ehsan Khamespanah and Ali Movaghar.
Lightweight Formal Method for Robust Routing in Track-based Traffic Control Systems.
9:55 - 10:15 am Sanjiva Prasad, Rathnakar Madhukar Yerraguntla and Subodh Sharma.
Security Types for Synchronous Data Flow Systems.

December 4

6:30 - 7:30 am: Keynote Talk
Rupak Majumdar
Speaker: Rupak Majumdar (MPI-SWS)
Title: PGCD and the Motion Session Calculus: Reasoning about Concurrency, Geometry, and Dynamics
Chair: Indranil Saha (IIT Kanpur)


Session 5: Short Papers
Chairs: Bruhadeshwar Bezawada (Mahindra University, India), Goran Frehse (ENSTA Paris)

7:45 - 8:00 am Marcelo Forets, Daniel Freire Caporale and Christian Schilling.
Efficient reachability analysis of parametric linear hybrid systems with time-triggered transitions
8:00 - 8:15 am Paula Herber and Timm Liebrenz.
Automated Partitioning and Compositional Verification of Hardware/Software Codesigns
8:15 - 8:30 am Tuba Yavuz.
Verifying Absence of Hardware-Software Data Races using Counting Abstraction
8:30 - 8:45 am Qiang Wang, Dachuan Li and Joseph Sifakis.
Safe and efficient collision avoidance control for autonomous vehicles.
8:45 - 9:00 am Jeremy Pope, Jules Saget and Carl-Johan Seger.
Cephalopode: A custom processor aimed at functional language execution for IoT devices.
9:00 - 9:15 am Jeremy Pope, Jules Saget and Carl-Johan Seger.
Stately: An FSM Design Tool

9:30 - 9:45 am: Best Paper Award Ceremony

9:45 - 10:00 am: Closing Remarks