This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2018, held in Limassol, Cyprus, in November 2018. The 21 full papers presented together with 3 short papers and 3 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 49 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. Runtime verification techniques are lightweight techniques to assess correctness, reliability, and robustness; these techniques are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Chapter “Hardware-based Runtime Verification with Embedded Tracing Units and Stream Processing” is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

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.

Annotation. This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2010, held in St. Julians, Malta, in November 2010. The 23 revised full papers presented together with 6 invited papers, 6 tutorials and 4 tool demonstrations were carefully reviewed and selected from 74 submissions. The papers address a wide range of topics such as runtime monitoring, analysis and verification, statically and dynamical, runtime simulations, together with applications in malware analysis and failure recovery, as well as execution tracing in embedded systems.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2023, held in Thessaloniki, Greece, during October 3–6, 2023. The 13 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this book together with 4 tutorial papers and 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of novel lightweight formal methods to monitor, analyze, and guide the runtime behavior of software and hardware systems. Runtime verification techniques are crucial for system correctness, reliability, and robustness; they provide an additional level of rigor and effectiveness compared to conventional testing and are generally more practical than exhaustive formal verification.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2019, held in Porto, Portugal, in October 2019. The 25 regular papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions. Runtime verification techniques are lightweight techniques to assess system correctness, reliability, and robustness; these techniques are significantly more powerful and versatile than conventional testing, and more practical than exhaustive formal verification. Chapter “Assumption-Based Runtime Verification with Partial Observability and Resets” and chapter “NuRV: a nuXmv Extension for Runtime Verification“ are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2013, held in Rennes, France, in September 2013. The 24 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited papers, 2 tool papers, and 6 tutorials were carefully reviewed and selected from 58 submissions. The papers address a wide range of specification languages and formalisms for traces; specification mining; program instrumentation; monitor construction techniques; logging, recording, and replay; fault detection, localization, recovery, and repair; program steering and adaptation; as well as metrics and statistical information gathering; combination of static and dynamic analyses and program execution visualization.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Runtime Verification, RV 2021, held virtually during October 11-14, 2021. The 11 regular papers and 7 short/tool/benchmark papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. Also included is one tutorial paper. The RV conference is concerned with all aspects of monitoring and analysis of hardware, software and more general system executions.