[TYPES/announce] [SAS 2020] Second Call for Papers + COVID-19 update

[Mihaela Sighireanu]

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                              SAS 2020

                     27th Static Analysis Symposium

                       Co-located with SLASH 2020

           Chicago, Illinois, United States, November 18-20, 2020

                  http://staticanalysis.org/sas2020

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IMPORTANT DATES (UPDATED)

- Abstract Submission: May 15, 2020

- Paper Submission: May 17, 2020

- Artifact Submission: May 22, 2020

- Author Response: July 06-09, 2020

- Notification: July 19, 2020

- Conference: Wednesday-Friday, November 18-20, 2020

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.


TOPICS

The technical program for SAS 2020 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


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. More information can be found on
https://conf.researchr.org/home/sas-2020/#Call-for-Artifacts.


LIGHTWEIGHT DOUBLE-BLIND REVIEWING PROCESS

SAS 2020 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 COMMITTEE

- Josh Berdine, Facebook

- Bor-Yuh Evan Chang, University of Colorado Boulder, USA

- Patrick Cousot, New York University, USA

- Jerome Feret, INRIA Paris, France

- Samir Genaim, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

- Arie Gurfinkel, University of Waterloo, Canada

- Suresh Jagannathan, Purdue University, USA

- Andy King, University of Kent, UK

- Murali Krishna Ramanathan, Uber Technologies Inc.

- Francesco Logozzo, Facebook

- Antoine Miné, Sorbonne University, France

- Anders Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark

- Kedar Namjoshi, Bell Labs, Nokia

- David Pichardie, ENS Rennes, France (co-chair)

- Sylvie Putot, École Polytechnique, France

- Francesco Ranzato, University of Padova, Italy

- Xavier Rival, INRIA Paris, France

- Helmut Seidl, Technische Universität München, Germany

- Mihaela Sighireanu, Université de Paris, France (co-chair)

- Caterina Urban, INRIA Paris, France

- Tomas Vojnar,Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic

- Kwangkeun Yi, Seoul National University, Korea

- Enea Zaffanella, University of Parma, Italy

- Florian Zuleger, TU Vienna, Austria