Advances in verification presented in TACAS’13

Computers are becoming increasingly ubiquitous in all aspects of our life. It is becoming more and more important to ensure that the software (and hardware) that drives them performs as expected. Verification is one approach to improve quality of software and hardware. Verification attempts to formally prove that programs or systems fulfill desired properties and lack undesirable properties. This is a thriving area of research, and much resources are invested in extending it both in academia and in industry. In this special issue, we introduce four papers on verification selected from the 19th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS’13).