[TYPES/announce] CFP: Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in OOP

[Tobias Wrigstad]

   **Note**

This is a resend of the CFP for the IWACO workshop to broadcast
that the workshop date is now fixed at July 30th, 2007.

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         International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and
	 Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO)
				
                      ----> July 30, 2007 <----
		  in conjunction with ECOOP 2007
	     Berlin, Germany July 30th to August 3rd

	     http://dsv.su.se/~tobias/iwaco2007.html


Call For Papers
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The power of objects lies in the flexibility of their inter-
connection structure. But this flexibility comes at a cost.
Because an object can be modified via any alias, object-oriented
programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Aliasing
makes objects depend on their environment in unpredictable ways,
breaking the encapsulation necessary for reliable software
components, making it difficult to reason about and optimise
programs, obscuring the flow of information between objects, and
introducing security problems.

Aliasing is a fundamental difficulty, but we accept its presence.
Instead we seek techniques for describing, reasoning about,
restricting, analysing, and preventing the connections between
objects and/or the flow of information between them. Promising
approaches to these problems are based on ownership, confinement,
information flow, sharing control, escape analysis, argument
independence, read-only references, effects systems, and access
control mechanisms.

The workshop will generally address the question how to manage
interconnected object structures in the presence of aliasing. In
particular, we will consider the following issues (among others):

  * models, type and other formal systems, separation logic,
    programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques,
    patterns, tools and notations for expressing object ownership,
    aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and/or information flow.

  * optimisation techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries,
    applications, tools, and novel approaches exploiting object
    ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and/or information
    flow.

  * empirical studies of programs or experience reports from
    programming systems designed with these issues in mind

  * novel applications of aliasing management techniques such as
    ownership types, ownership domains, confined types, region
    types, and uniqueness.

We encourage not only submissions presenting original research
results, but also papers that attempt to establish links between
different approaches and/or papers that include survey
material. Original research results should be clearly described,
and their usefulness to practitioners outlined. Paper selection
will be based on the quality of the submitted material.

The best papers will appear in a special issue of the IET Software
journal. A workshop report written by the organisers will be
published in the ECOOP workshop reader after the ECOOP conference.

The workshop will be held as part of the ECOOP'07 conference
taking place in Berlin, Germany.


Invited Speaker
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Vijay Saraswat (IBM TJ Watson Research Lab and Penn State
University)


Programme Committee
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Jonathan Aldrich	(Carnegie Mellon University)
Chandrasekhar Boyapati	(University of Michigan)
Dave Clarke	        (CWI)
Sophia Drossopoulou	(Imperial College)
Rustan Leino	        (Microsoft Research)
Peter Müller	        (ETH Zurich)
James Noble	        (Victoria University of Wellington)
Peter O'Hearn	        (Queen Mary, University of London)
Alex Potanin	        (Victoria University of Wellington)
Jan Vitek	        (Purdue University)
Tobias Wrigstad	        (Stockholm University)


Important Dates
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Submission:	May 13, 2007
Notification:	June 6, 2007
Final version:	June 29, 2007
Workshop:	July 30 (tentative), 2007
ECOOP'07 Early Registration: June 15th.


Organisers
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Dave Clarke	       (CWI)
James Noble	       (Victoria University of Wellington)
Tobias Wrigstad	       (Stockholm University)


Participation
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The number of participants is limited to 25. Apart from those with
accepted papers, others may attend by sending an email to Tobias
Wrigstad (tobias at dsv.su.se) indicating what contribution you could
make to the workshop. A small number of places will be reserved
for PhD students and other researchers wishing to begin research
in this area.


Selection Process
-----------------

Both full papers (up to 10 pgs.) and position papers (1-2 pgs.)
are welcome. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme
committee. The accepted papers, after rework by the authors, will
be published in the Workshop Proceedings, which will be
distributed at the workshop. All accepted submissions shall remain
available from the workshop web page.

Papers should be formatted in LaTeX and be sent as PS or PDF files
to tobias at dsv.su.se by May 13, 2007 and be accompanied by a
text-only message containing title, abstract and keywords, the
authors' full names, and address and e-mail for correspondence.
Submissions should be in English.


Queries
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Queries may be directed to Tobias Wrigstad (tobias at dsv.su.se).