[TYPES/announce] call for papers FTfJP 2008

[Marieke Huisman]

              Call for Contributions FTfJP 2008

        10th Workshop on Formal Techniques for 
Java-like Programs
                   in conjunction with ECOOP 2008

                   July, 2008 (Paphos, Cyprus)

 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/everest/events/FTfJP08/

SCOPE

Formal techniques can help analyze programs, 
precisely describe program behavior, and verify 
program properties.  Newer languages  such as Java 
and C# provide good platforms to bridge the gap 
between formal techniques and practical program 
development, because of their reasonably clear 
semantics and standardized libraries.
Moreover, these languages are interesting targets 
for formal techniques, because the novel paradigm 
for program deployment introduced with Java, with 
its improved portability and mobility, opens up 
new possibilities for abuse and causes concern 
about security.

Work on formal techniques and tools for programs 
and work on the formal  underpinnings of 
programming languages themselves naturally 
complement each other.  This workshop aims to 
bring together people working in both these 
fields, on topics such as:

- specification techniques and interface 
specification languages,
- specification of software components and library 
packages,
- automated checking and verification of program 
properties,
- verification logics,
- language semantics,
- type systems,
- security.


CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions are sought on open questions, new 
developments, or interesting new applications of 
formal techniques in the context of Java or 
similar languages, such as C#.  Contributions 
should not merely present completely finished 
work, but also raise
challenging open problems or propose speculative 
new approaches.  We plan to have a special 
``exciting ideas'' session during the workshop, 
where challenges, new ideas, open problems and 
speculative solutions will be presented, with 
extra room for discussion.

Submissions must be in English and are limited to 
10 pages using LNCS style (excluding 
bibliography). Notice that we explicitly also 
encourage the submission of short papers (of 4 - 6 
pages, especially for the ``exciting ideas'' 
session). Papers must be submitted electronically 
via the workshop website: 
http://www-sop.inria.fr/everest/events/FTfJP08/

All contributions will be formally reviewed, for 
originality, relevance, focus of the workshop, and 
the potential to generate interesting discussions.

PUBLICATION

Informal proceedings will be made available to 
workshop participants. Papers will also be 
available from the workshop web page. There will 
be no formal publication of papers.

Depending on the nature of the contributions, we 
may be organizing a special journal issue as a 
follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for 
some previous FTfJP workshops.

IMPORTANT DATES

April 23, 2008  Deadline for submission of abstract
April 30, 2008  Deadline for submission of full paper
May 26, 2008    Notification
June 1, 2008    Deadline for early registration to 
ECOOP '08
June 9, 2008    Deadline for final version of 
paper for informal proceedings
July 7 or 8, 2008 Workshop

Workshop Web Site: http://www.cs.ru.nl/ftfjp

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Elvira Albert, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Cyrille Artho, RCIS/AIST, Japan
Anindya Banerjee, Kansas State University, USA
Mike Barnett, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Amy Felty, University of Ottawa, Canada
Paola Giannini, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
Rene Rydhof Hansen, Aalborg University, Denmark
Marieke Huisman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France 
(chair)
Atsushi Igarashi, Kyoto University, Japan
Bart Jacobs, University of Leuven, Belgium
Gerwin Klein, National ICT Australia, Australia
Neelakantan R. Krishnaswami, Carnegie Mellon 
University, USA
Matthew Parkinson, University of Cambridge, UK
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of 
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Tobias Wrigstad, Purdue University, USA

Organizers

Marieke Huisman, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France 
(chair)
Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College London, UK
Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College London, UK
Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, USA
Peter Mueller, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, University of 
Kaiserslautern, Germany
Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands

For more information, send email to Marieke Huisman:
Marieke.Huisman at sophia.inria.fr