[TYPES/announce] SAS 2019 in Porto, April 18 submission: 26th Static Analysis Symposium, CfP

[Bor-Yuh Evan Chang]

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                               SAS 2019

                    26th Static Analysis Symposium
           Part of the 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods

                  Porto, Portugal, October 8-11, 2019

                 http://staticanalysis.org/sas2019

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IMPORTANT DATES

- Paper Submission: Thursday, April 18, 2019
- Artifact Submission: Thursday, April 25, 2019
- Author Response: Friday-Monday, May 31-June 3, 2019
- Notification: Friday, June 14, 2019
- Conference: Wednesday-Friday, October 9-11, 2019

All deadline times are AoE.

ABOUT

Static analysis is widely recognized as a fundamental tool for program
verification, bug detection, compiler optimization, program understanding,
and
software maintenance. The series of Static Analysis Symposia has served as
the
primary venue for the presentation of theoretical, practical, and
application
advances in the area. The 26th Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2019, will be
held
in Porto, Portugal. Previous symposia were held in Freiburg, New York,
Edinburgh, Saint-Malo, Munich, Seattle, Deauville, Venice, Perpignan, Los
Angeles, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Seoul, London, Verona, San Diego, Madrid,
Paris, Santa Barbara, Pisa, Aachen, Glasgow, and Namur.

TOPICS

The technical program for SAS 2019 will consist of invited lectures and
presentations of refereed papers. Contributions are welcomed on all aspects
of
static analysis, including, but not limited to:

- Abstract domains
- Abstract interpretation
- Automated deduction
- Data flow analysis
- Debugging
- Deductive methods
- Emerging applications
- Model checking
- Program optimizations and transformations
- Program synthesis
- Program verification
- Security analysis
- Tool environments and architectures
- Theoretical frameworks
- Type checking

SPECIAL SESSIONS ON TRENDS IN STATIC ANALYSIS: STATIC ANALYSIS AND MACHINE
LEARNING

New in 2019, special sessions will be organized around a trending topic in
static analysis. For SAS 2019, we especially solicit Trends in Static
Analysis
contributions around the emerging convergence of static analysis and machine
learning. Trends contributions are welcome on this convergence broadly
construed, including, but not limited to:

- Scaling static analysis to "big code"
- Data-driven static analysis
- Assuring machine learning with static analysis

Trends contributions will be refereed in the same manner and with the same
standards as other contributions.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent,
constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect,
multi-core,
distributed, and GPU programming.

- Papers must describe original work, be written and presented in English,
and
  must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or
that
  are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with refereed
  proceedings.
- Submitted papers will be judged on the basis of significance,
  relevance, correctness, originality, and clarity.
- They should clearly identify what has been accomplished and why it is
  significant.
- Paper submissions should not exceed 18 pages in Springer’s Lecture Notes
in
  Computer Science (LNCS) format, excluding bibliography and well-marked
  appendices. Program Committee members are not required to read the
  appendices, and thus papers must be intelligible without them.

ARTIFACT SUBMISSION

As in previous years, we encourage authors to submit a virtual machine image
containing any artifacts and evaluations presented in the paper. The goal of
the artifact submissions is to strengthen our field’s scientific approach to
evaluations and reproducibility of results. The virtual machines will be
archived on a permanent Static Analysis Symposium website to provide a
record
of past experiments and tools, allowing future research to better evaluate
and
contrast existing work.

Artifact submission is optional. We accept only virtual machine images that
can
be processed with Virtual Box. Details on what to submit and how will be
sent
to the corresponding authors by mail shortly after the paper submission
deadline.

The submitted artifacts will be used by the program committee as a secondary
evaluation criteria whose sole purpose is to find additional positive
arguments
for the paper’s acceptance. Submissions without artifacts are welcome and
will
not be penalized.

LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING PROCESS

SAS 2019 will use a lightweight double-blind reviewing process. Following
this
process means that reviewers will not see the authors’ names or
affiliations as
they initially review a paper. The authors’ names will then be revealed to
the
reviewers only once their reviews have been submitted.

To facilitate this process, submitted papers must adhere to the following:

- Author names and institutions must be omitted and
- References to the authors’ own related work should be in the third person
  (e.g., not “We build on our previous work …” but rather “We build on the
work
  of …”). The purpose of this process is to help the reviewers come to an
  initial judgment about the paper without bias, not to make it impossible
for
  them to discover the authors if they were to try. Nothing should be done
in
  the name of anonymity that weakens the submission, makes the job of
reviewing
  the paper more difficult, or interferes with the process of disseminating
new
  ideas. For example, important background references should not be omitted
or
  anonymized, even if they are written by the same authors and share common
  ideas, techniques, or infrastructure. Authors should feel free to
disseminate
  their ideas or draft versions of their paper as they normally would. For
  instance, authors may post drafts of their papers on the web or give
talks on
  their research ideas.

AUTHOR RESPONSE PERIOD

During the author response period, authors will be able to read reviews and
respond to them as appropriate.

RADHIA COUSOT YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD

Since 2014, the program committee of each SAS conference selects a paper for
the Radhia Cousot Young Researcher Best Paper Award, in memory of Radhia
Cousot, and her fundamental contributions to static analysis, as well as
being
one of the main promoters and organizers of the SAS series of conferences.

PROGRAM CHAIR

- Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Josh Berdine (Facebook)
- Marc Brockschmidt (Microsoft Research)
- Yu-Fang Chen (Academia Sinica)
- Roberto Giacobazzi (Università di Verona)
- Ben Hardekopf (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Thomas Jensen (INRIA)
- Ranjit Jhala (University of California, San Diego)
- Andy King (University of Kent)
- Shuvendu Lahiri (Microsoft Research)
- Akash Lal (Microsoft Research)
- Francesco Logozzo (Facebook)
- Jan Midtgaard (University of Southern Denmark)
- Antoine Miné (Sorbonne Université)
- Anders Møller (Aarhus University)
- David Monniaux (CNRS/VERIMAG)
- Kedar Namjoshi (Bell Labs, Nokia)
- Sylvie Putot (LIX, Ecole Polytechnique)
- Veselin Raychev (DeepCode AG)
- Xavier Rival (INRIA/CNRS/ENS/PSL)
- Sriram Sankaranarayanan (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Tachio Terauchi (Waseda University)
- Aditya V. Thakur (University of California, Davis)
- Tomas Vojnar (FIT, Brno University of Technology)
- Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University)
- Xin Zhang (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Florian Zuleger (TU Wien)

ARTIFACT EVALUATION CHAIR

- Hakjoo Oh (Korea University)
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