Victor Vianu,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of California San Diego.

Software systems centered around databases have become pervasive in a wide variety of applications, including health-care management, e-commerce, business processes, scientific workflows, and e-government.

Such applications support complex workflows involving numerous interacting actors, whence the critical need for various analysis tools.

Unlike arbitrary software systems, data-driven applications are increasingly specified using high-level logic-based tools, which greatly facilitates the analysis task.

This new opportunity has given rise to a flourishing research area at the intersection of databases and computer-aided verification, in both academia and industry. This talk will present an overview of recent research in this area, carried out with collaborators at UC San Diego and INRIA.