The first scientific meeting of the EU COST Action “Runtime Verification beyond Monitoring (ARVI)” has taken place in Valletta, Malta on April 9th and 10th. IMDEA Software Institute faculty member César Sánchez is a member of the management committee and a workgroup leader, and a leader in the COST Action proposal’s elaboration.

Runtime verification (RV) is a computing analysis paradigm based on observing a system at runtime to check its expected behavior. RV has emerged in recent years as a practical application of formal verification, and a less ad-hoc approach to conventional testing by building monitors from formal specifications.

The main goals of the action are:

1. to create an infrastructure that supports comparing tools and reusing existing infrastructure in runtime verification,

2. to explore potential impactful applications of runtime verification to industrial settings like hardware, medical devices, cloud computing, and even human centric systems, and

3. to explore challenging application domains for monitoring and runtime verification, such as hybrid systems and distributed systems.

Given the importance of computer-based industries in Europe, novel applications of RV have a large impact in terms of the new class of designs enabled and their reliability and cost effectiveness.

This COST Action is funded for 4 years, until 2018.