MLQA 2009

The Kick-Off meeting of the proposed ERCIM working group on Models and Logics for Quantitative Analysis (abbreviated MLQA) took place on Saturday 28’th of March in conjunction with ETAPS 2009 in York.

Programe of the meeting

• 10.10-10.30: Opening
  • Flemming Nielson: “An overview of MLQA”

• 11.00-12.30: Invited Talks:
  • Stephen Gilmore - stochastic analysis in PEPA
  • Carolyn Talcott - statistical model checking in Maude
  • Rocco De Nicola - process algebras for stochastic features

• 14.00-15.30: Invited Talks:
  • Diego Latella - applications to service oriented systems: “A Stochastic Logic for Mobility and Global Computing”
  • Holger Hermanns - applications to embedded systems
  • Paola Quaglia - applications to biological systems

• 16.00-17.00: Short Presentations (“4 minutes, 1 slide”):
  • Tino Teige (University of Oldenburg).
  • Herbert Wiklicky (Imperial College).
  • Vashti Galpin (University of Edinburgh).
  • Manuela Bujorianu (Cicada).
  • Stefan Kiefer (TU Munich).
  • Erik de Vink (CWI and TU/e).
  • Milad Niqui (CWI).
  • Ezio Bartocci (Universita Camerino).
  • Henrikas Pranevicius (Kaunas University of Technology).
  • Sven Schneider (TU Berlin).
  • Mark Timmer (University of Twente).
  • Uli Fahrenberg (University of Aalborg).

• 17.10-18.00: Discussion

Meeting attendees

Attendant	Affiliation
Ezio Bartocci	UNICAM, Camerino, Italy
Manuela Bujorianu	University of Manchester, UK
Gabriel Ciobanu	Romanian Academy,Iasi, Romania
Vincent Danos	University of Edinburgh, Informatics
Rocco de Nicola	Universita di Firenze, Italy
Erik de Vink	TU Eindhoven and CWI
Uli Fahrenberg	Aalborg University, Computer Science
Vashti Galpin	University of Edinburgh, Informatics
Stephen Gilmore	University of Edinburgh, Informatics
Matthew Hennessy	Trinity College Dublin, Computer Science
Holger Hermanns	Saarland University
Jane Hillston	University of Edinburgh, Informatics
Joost-Pieter Katoen	RWTH Aachen and University of Twente
Stefan Kiefer	TU Munich, Informatics
Richard Lassaigne	University Paris 7
Diego Latella	CNR, ISTI
Michele Loreti	Universita di Firenze, Italy
Emanuela Merelli	UNICAM, Camerino, Italy
Flemming Nielson	DTU Informatics
Hanne Riis Nielson	DTU Informatics
Milad Niqui	CWI
Catuscia Palamidessi	INRIA
David Parker	Oxford University
Nenrikas Pranevicius	Kaunas University
Paola Quaglia	Trento University, Italy
Vladimiro Sassone	University of Southampton
Sven Schneider	Technical University Berlin
Nataliya Skrypnyuk	DTU Informatics
Carolyn Talcott	SRI International, USA
Tino Teige	Oldenburg University
Mark Timmer	University of Twente, Netherlands
Herbert Wiklicky	Imperial College, London
Ender Yuksel	DTU Informatics

Presentations' slides

Presentation by Flemming Nielson

Presentation by Stephen Gilmore

Presentation by Carolyn Talcott

Presentation by Rocco De Nicola

Presentation by Diego Latella

Presentation by Holger Hermanns

Presentation by Paola Quaglia

Short presentations by the participants

Meeting's results

The discussion fully supported actually creating the working group.

Concerning the mission statement it was suggested that the logic component be stressed further, that we should make sure to involve control theory and that we should be open to neighbouring areas like performance guarantees; the latter could be accomplished by inviting guest speakers to future meetings. It was also suggested that theorem proving be mentioned as a relevant technology. Concerning application areas it was suggested that life sciences (applications to biology) should be worked better into the document and that the security component should be strengthened.

Concerning the duration of the meetings a two day meeting colocated with a relevant conference was favoured. It is not the intention ot create a meeting with accepted papers but rather to keep it an informal venue intended to create synergies. Some concrete suggestions were to colocate with QEST and FORMATS whereas ETAPS was felt to be a bit crowded (and there was the unfortunate scheduling of MLQA and QAPL on the same day) and ICALP and DiscoTec were found not to be too close in topic. Indeed QEST and FORMATS will be held in 2011 in Aachen and Joost-Pieter Katoen (present at the meeting) will be the organizer.

Concerning the contents of the meeting it was suggested that an effort should be made to make the meetings “special”. Ideas could be to contrast “opposing” analysis techniques, to present and share case studies of a reasonable size that could be addressed using various techniques. In other words to actually avoid the risk of becoming yet another conference. Once the board of the working group is in place it would be the duty of the board to make this kind of planning.