CiaoPP is a context-sensitive, abstract interpretation-based analyzer and verifier based on transforming both high- and low-level program representations into Horn clauses and inferring via fixpoint computation the abstract semantics of such clauses, over a set of user-definable abstract domains. In this talk I will review the CiaoPP approach, and present recent applications such as energy consumption verification, static analysis of the cost of run-time checks for assertions, and some recent results in combining incremental and modular analysis.

Manuel Hermenegildo is a Full Professor and (Founding) Scientific Director of the IMDEA Software Institute. He is also a full Prof. of Computer Science at the Tech. U. of Madrid, UPM. Previously he held an Endowed Chair in Information Science and Technology at the U. of New Mexico. He was also project leader at the MCC research center and Adjunct Assoc. Prof. at the CS Department of the U. of Texas, both in Austin, Texas. See his home page for more information.

Research interests: Energy-Aware Computing, Resource / non-functional property analysis, verification, and control; Global Program Analysis, Optimization, Verification, Debugging; Abstract Interpretation; Partial Evaluation; Parallelism and Parallelizing Compilers; Constraint/Logic/Functional Programming Theory and Implementation, Abstract Machines; Automatic Documentation Tools, Execution Visualization; Sequential and Parallel Computer Architecture.