This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Automated Technology for Verification and Analysis, ATVA 2006, held in Beijing, China in October 2006.

The 35 revised full papers presented together with abstracts of three keynote papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 137 submissions.

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Keynote Speeches.- Analysis of Recursive Probabilistic Models.- Verification Challenges and Opportunities in the New Era of Microprocessor Design.- Automated Abstraction of Software.- Regular Papers.- Symmetry Reduction for Probabilistic Model Checking Using Generic Representatives.- Eager Markov Chains.- A Probabilistic Learning Approach for Counterexample Guided Abstraction Refinement.- A Fine-Grained Fullness-Guided Chaining Heuristic for Symbolic Reachability Analysis.- Model Checking Timed Systems with Urgencies.- Whodunit? Causal Analysis for Counterexamples.- On the Membership Problem for Visibly Pushdown Languages.- On the Construction of Fine Automata for Safety Properties.- On the Succinctness of Nondeterminism.- Efficient Algorithms for Alternating Pushdown Systems with an Application to the Computation of Certificate Chains.- Compositional Reasoning for Hardware/Software Co-verification.- Learning-Based Symbolic Assume-Guarantee Reasoning with Automatic Decomposition.- On the Satisfiability of Modular Arithmetic Formulae.- Selective Approaches for Solving Weak Games.- Controller Synthesis and Ordinal Automata.- Effective Contraction of Timed STGs for Decomposition Based Timed Circuit Synthesis.- Synthesis for Probabilistic Environments.- Branching-Time Property Preservation Between Real-Time Systems.- Automatic Verification of Hybrid Systems with Large Discrete State Space.- Timed Unfoldings for Networks of Timed Automata.- Symbolic Unfoldings for Networks of Timed Automata.- Ranked Predicate Abstraction for Branching Time: Complete, Incremental, and Precise.- Timed Temporal Logics for Abstracting Transient States.- Predicate Abstraction of Programs with Non-linear Computation.- A Fresh Look at Testing for Asynchronous Communication.- Proactive Leader Election in Asynchronous Shared Memory Systems.- A Semantic Framework for Test Coverage.- Monotonic Set-Extended Prefix Rewriting and Verification of Recursive Ping-Pong Protocols.- Analyzing Security Protocols in Hierarchical Networks.- Functional Analysis of a Real-Time Protocol for Networked Control Systems.- Symbolic Semantics for the Verification of Security Properties of Mobile Petri Nets.- Sigref - A Symbolic Bisimulation Tool Box.- Towards a Model-Checker for Counter Systems.- The Implementation of Mazurkiewicz Traces in POEM.- Model-Based Tool-Chain Infrastructure for Automated Analysis of Embedded Systems.