April 1-3, 2004, Barcelona, Spain

The SPIN workshop is a forum for practitioners and researchers interested in model checking based techniques for the validation and analysis of communication protocols and software systems. Techniques based on explicit representations of state spaces, as implemented in the SPIN model checker or other tools, or techniques based on combination of explicit representations with symbolic representations, is the focus of this workshop. It has proven to be particularly suitable to analyze concurrent asynchronous systems. The workshop will focus on topics including theoretical and algorithmic foundations and tools, model derivation from code and code derivation from models, techniques for dealing with large and infinite state spaces, timing and applications. The workshop aims to encourage interactions and exchanges of ideas with all related areas in software engineering.