Runtime Verification [electronic resource] : 8th International Workshop, RV 2008, Budapest, Hungary, March 30, 2008. Selected Papers / edited by Martin Leucker.

A Smell of Orchids -- Runtime Certification -- Model-Based Run-Time Checking of Security Permissions Using Guarded Objects -- Synthesizing Monitors for Safety Properties: This Time with Calls and Returns -- Forays into Sequential Composition and Concatenation in Eagle -- Checking Traces for Regulatory Conformance -- Deadlocks: From Exhibiting to Healing -- A Scalable, Sound, Eventually-Complete Algorithm for Deadlock Immunity -- Property Patterns for Runtime Monitoring of Web Service Conversations -- Runtime Monitoring of Object Invariants with Guarantee -- A Lightweight Container Architecture for Runtime Verification.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on Runtime Verification, RV 2008, held in Budapest, Hungary, in March 2008 as satellite event of ETAPS 2008. The 9 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully selected from 27 initial submissions. The subject covers several technical fields such as runtime verification, runtime checking, runtime monitoring, and security and safety matters.