This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2003, held in Warsaw, Poland, in April 2003. The 43 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 160 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on bounded model checking and SAT-based methods, mu-calculus and temporal logics, verification of parameterized systems, abstractions and counterexamples, real-time and scheduling, security and cryptography, modules and compositional verification, symbolic state spaces and decision diagrams, performance and mobility, state space reductions, constraint solving and decision procedures, and testing and verification.

As the complexity of software increases, researchers and practicioners continue to seek better techniques for engineering the construction of evolution of software. Partial evaluation is an attractive technology for modern software construction since it provides automatic tools for software specialization and is based on rigorous semantic foundations. This book is based on a school held at DIKU Copenhagen, Denmark in summer 1998 during which leading researchers summarized the state of the art in partial evaluation. The lectures presented survey the foundations of partial evaluation in a clear and rigorous manner and practically introduce several existing partial evaluators with numerous examples. The second part of the book is devoted to more sophisticated theoretical aspects, advances systems and applications, and highlights open problems and challenges. The book is ideally suited for advanced courses and for self study.