[TYPES/announce] SOAP 2015 - 4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis

[Anders Møller]

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                                   SOAP 2015

  4th ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Program Analysis

                        http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soap/

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DESCRIPTION

Static and dynamic analysis techniques and tools for Java and related programming languages have received widespread attention for a long time. The application domains of these analyses range from core libraries to modern technologies such as web services and Android applications. Over time, analysis frameworks, for example, Soot, WALA, Chord, and Doop, have been developed to better support techniques for optimizing programs, ensuring code quality, and assessing security and compliance.

Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN, the Soot community brought together its members and other researchers by organizing the International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java Program Analysis (SOAP), since 2012 in conjunction with PLDI. The presentations and discussions have helped share new developments and shape new innovations in program analysis. SOAP 2015 will enhance that positive experience with a broadened scope to also emphasize other analysis tools than Soot and other programming languages than Java.

For SOAP 2015, we invite contributions and inspirations from developers and researchers working with program analysis frameworks. We are particularly interested in exciting framework ideas, innovative designs, and analysis techniques, including preliminary results of work in progress. The workshop agenda will continue its tradition of lively discussion sessions on extensions of existing frameworks, synergies between frameworks, and development of new analysis algorithms and tools.

FORMAT

The workshop will take one day and will feature invited talks by leading members of the program analysis community, presentations of all accepted refereed papers, and time for discussion.

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions should be four to six-page papers in ACM sig-alternate style. Possible submissions include, but are not limited to:

* A report on a novel implementation of a program analysis, with a focus on practical details or optimization techniques for obtaining precision and 
performance.
* A description of a new analysis component, for example, front-ends or abstract domains.
* A report describing an innovative tool built on top of Soot or another framework.
* A compelling use case for a feature not yet supported by existing analysis tools, with good examples and an informal design of the proposed feature.
* An idea paper proposing the integration of existing program analyses to answer interesting novel questions about programs, for example in IDEs.
* An experience report on the use of a program analysis framework. 

PUBLICATION

Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library. 

INVITED SPEAKERS

Koushik Sen, UC Berkeley
Atanas Rountev, Ohio State University
Frank Tip, Samsung Research America
Ben Hardekopf, UC Santa Barbara

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submissions: March 20, 2015
Notification of authors: April 17, 2015
Submission of camera-ready copies: April 27, 2015
Workshop date: June 14, 2015

ORGANIZERS

Anders Møller, Aarhus University
Mayur Naik, Georgia Institute of Technology

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Domagoj Babic, Google
Eric Bodden, Technische Universität Darmstadt and Fraunhofer SIT
Jeff Foster, University of Maryland, College Park
Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego
Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University