Michael Mason

Aarti Gupta

Transparency is increasingly seen as part of the solution to a complex array of economic, political, and ethical problems in an interconnected world. It is often assumed to result in more accountable and effective governance. The 'transparency turn' in global environmental governance in particular is evident in a wide range of international agreements, voluntary disclosure initiatives, and public-private partnerships. This is the first book to scrutinise this transparency turn critically, and to investigate whether it is a broadly transformative force or plays a more limited, instrumental role.

Critical Perspectives

Transparency in Global Environmental Governance

Sharad Malik

This volume contains the proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Aided Veri?cation (CAV) held in Princeton, New Jersey, USA, d- ing July 7–14, 2008. CAV is dedicated to the advancement of the theory and practice of computer-aided formal analysis methods for hardware and software systems. Its scope ranges from theoretical results to concrete applications, with an emphasis on practical veri?cation tools and the underlying algorithms and techniques. Overall, 2008 has been a historical year for CAV. – It marks the 20th anniversaryof CAV, which has servedas a forum for ideas whose impact is now clearly felt in research and practice. – It celebrates the recognitionreceived by Edmund M. Clarke, E. Allen Em- son and Joseph Sifakis as winners of the 2007 ACM Turing Award for their researchin model checking.CAV is proudto have been the intellectual home for model checking over these 20 years. – Inrecognitionofthelargebodyofcontributionsmadetothe?eldofcomput- aidedveri?cation,theCAVAwardwasinstitutedthisyearwiththe?rstw- ner announcedatthe conference,andacitationto appear inthe proceedings of the 21st CAV. There were 131 paper submissions, divided into 104 regular and 27 tool - pers. These went through an active review process, with each submission - viewed by at least 3, and on average4, members of the ProgramCommittee. We also sought external reviews from experts in certain areas. Authors had the - portunity to respond to the initial reviews during an author response period. All these inputs were used by the Program Committee in selecting a ?nal program with 33 regular papers and 14 tool papers.

20th International Conference, CAV 2008 Princeton, NJ, USA, July 7-14, 2008, Proceedings

Computer Aided Verification

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification, CAV 2008, held in Princeton, NJ, USA, in July 2008. The 33 revised full papers presented together with 14 tool papers and 2 invited papers and 4 invited tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 104 regular paper and 27 tool paper submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on concurrency, memory consistency, abstraction/refinement, hybrid systems, dynamic verification, modeling and specification formalisms, decision procedures, program verification, program and shape analysis, security and program analysis, hardware verification, model checking, space efficient algorithms, and model checking.

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