SETTA 2026: THE 12TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON DEPENDABLE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, THEORIES, TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS
PROGRAM

Days: Thursday, December 3rd Friday, December 4th

Thursday, December 3rd

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10:05-10:35Coffee Break
10:35-11:55 Session 2: Case studies
10:35
Model Checking the Speculative Primary-Order Atomic Broadcast Protocol (abstract)
10:55
Formal Verification of Graham's Scan Algorithm and its Implementation in C (abstract)
11:15
Verifying Register Protection in AArch64 Hypervisor (abstract)
11:35
Craig Interpolation for Trigonometric Polynomial Formulas with Affine Phases (abstract)
11:55-13:25Lunch Break
13:25-14:25 Session 3: Keynote
13:25
From Attention to Automata: Towards Understanding Neural Language Models (abstract)
14:25-15:45 Session 4: Composition and bounds
14:25
Handling Complex Interference Compositionally: A Concurrent Garbage Collector Case Study (abstract)
14:45
Context-dependent Runtime Enforcement (abstract)
15:05
Exact Loop Bound Analysis via Exit Invariants (abstract)
15:25
The Bounded Treedepth of Programs and Treedepth-guided CDCL (abstract)
15:45-16:15Coffee Break
16:15-17:35 Session 5: AI for verification
16:15
Formal Explanations of Machine Learning Ranking Systems via Answer Set Programming (abstract)
16:35
LLM-Generated Separation Logic Specifications for Heap-Manipulating Programs: Are We There Yet? (abstract)
16:55
MSLR-ARB: Graph Learning with Multi-Scale Local and Relation-Specific Views for Function-Level Aging-Related Bug Detection (abstract)
17:15
Learning Safe Neural Controllers via Barrier Certificate Guided Polynomial Abstraction (abstract)
Friday, December 4th

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09:00-10:00 Session 6: Keynote
09:00
A Systems Programming Language Integrating Coding and Proving (abstract)
10:00-10:30Coffee Break
10:30-11:30 Session 7: Proof systems
10:30
Complete Formalization of TLA in a Foundational Theorem Prover (abstract)
10:50
An Information-flow Proof System for Preemptive Kernel Specifications (abstract)
11:10
Formalization of the Completeness Theorem for First-Order Logic with Equality in Rocq (abstract)
11:30-12:10 Session 8: Timed systems
11:30
Compositional Automata Learning of Timed Synchronous Systems (abstract)
11:50
Probabilistic Timed Automata with Multiple Sure and Threshold Objectives (abstract)
12:10-13:40Lunch Break
13:40-14:40 Session 9: Frameworks
13:40
SCALC: A Safety-Case-Guided Assurance Framework for Lustre Compilers (abstract)
14:00
Preserving Semantics for Transpilation of Data Modelling Languages using CafeOBJ (abstract)
14:20
A Hybrid SMT-NRA Solver: Integrating 2D-Cell-Jump-Based Local Search, MCSAT and OpenCAD (abstract)
14:40-15:10Coffee Break
15:10-16:10 Session 10: Verification
15:10
Caster: Cost-Aware Selection of BTOR2 Verifiers (abstract)
15:30
A Linear-time Parameterized Algorithm for Optimal Register Allocation with Copy Coalescing (abstract)
15:50
Synthesis and Verification of Register Automata over Data Sequences (abstract)