Computer Aided Verification ... International Conference, CAV ... ; Proceedings. Paris, France, July 18-22, 2001

This volume contains the proceedings of the conference on Computer-Aided Veric ation (CAV 2001), held in Paris, Palaisde laMutualit e, July 18{22,2001. CAV 2001 was the 13th in a series of conferences dedicated to the advan- ment of the theory and practice of computer-assisted formal analysis methods for software and hardware systems. The CAV conference covers the spectrum from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical veri cation tools and algorithms and techniques needed for their implemen- tion. ProgramCommitteeofCAV 2001 Rajeev Alur (Penn. &Bell labs) Bengt Jonsson (Uppsala) Henrik Reif Andersen (Copenhagen) Robert Kurshan (LucentBellLabs) G erard Berry (EsterelT., co-chair) Kim G. Larsen (Aalborg) Randy Bryant (CMU) Ken Mc Millan(Cadence) Jerry Burch (Cadence) Kedar Namjoshi (Belllabs) Ching-Tsun Chou (Intel) Christine Paulin-Mohring (Orsay) Edmund Clarke (CMU) Carl Pixley (Motorola) Hubert Comon (LSV& Stanford, co-chair) Kavita Ravi (Cadence) David Dill (Stanford) Natarajan Shankar (SRI) E. Allen Emerson (Austin) Mary Sheeran (Chalmers &Prover T. ) Alain Finkel (LSV, co-chair) Tom Shiple (Synopsys) Patrice Godefroid (Belllabs) A.