[TYPES/announce] CFP: Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs (FTfJP) 2011

[Steve Freund]

CALL FOR PAPERS

FTfJP 2011: Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs
colocated with ECOOP 2011, Lancaster UK
July 26, 2011

URL: http://www.cs.williams.edu/FTfJP2011/index.html


OVERVIEW

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:

- formal techniques for Java, C#, Scala or similar languages
- 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
- dynamic linking and loading
- security


CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS

Contributions (of up to 6 pages in the ACM 2-column style) are sought
on open questions, new developments, or interesting new applications
of formal techniques in the context of Java or similar
languages. Contributions should not merely present completely finished
work, but also raise challenging open problems or propose speculative
new approaches. We particularly welcome contributions that simply
suggest good topics for discussion at the workshop, or raise issues
that you feel deserve the attention of the research community.

Contributions will be formally reviewed, for originality, relevance,
and the potential to generate interesting discussions.

The workshop is intended for around 25 participants. The workshop will
be organized into four or more sessions, each focused on a specific
topic, and initiated by a presentation of few related position papers
by the respective participants, or the introduction of the specific
topic by a single speaker, and followed by discussions.

Accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. In
addition, depending on the nature of the contributions, we may
organize a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as
has been done for some of the previous FTfJP workshops.

Contributions must be in English, in pdf format, and are limited to 6
pages in ACM 2-column style.

Papers must be submitted electronically via Easy Chair. A plain-text
ASCII abstract must be submitted one week before the paper submission
deadline.

Submission site: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp13

Any PC member, other than the chair, may be an author or co-author on
any paper submitted for consideration but will be excluded from any
evaluation or discussion of the paper.


IMPORTANT DATES

abstract submission:  April 8, 2011
full paper submission:  April 15, 2011
notification:  May 20, 2011
camera-ready paper:  June 10, 2011
workshop:  July 26, 2011


PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Gavin Bierman, Microsoft Research, UK
Viviana Bono, Universita di Torino, Italy
Manuel Fahndrich, Microsoft Research, USA
Stephen Freund, Williams College, USA    (chair)
Miguel Garcia, Lausanne, Switzerland
Giovanni Lagorio, Universita di Genova, Italy
Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA
Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland
Wojciech Mostowski, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Chin Wei Ngan, University of Singapore, Singapore
Jan Smans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Serdar Tasiran, Koc University, Turkey
Frank Tip, IBM Research, USA (on sabbatical at University of Oxford, UK)
Tobias Wrigstad, Uppsala University, Sweden


ORGANIZATION

Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College, London, Great Britain
Stephen Freund, Williams College, USA
Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA
Rustan Leino, Microsoft Research, USA
Peter Muller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter,  Universitat Kaiserlautern, Germany
Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands