[Soot-list] CfP reminder: SOAP '14 @ PLDI due March 14

[Raul Santelices]

SOAP 2014 - CALL FOR PAPERS
(co-located with PLDI 2014)

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3rd ACM SIGPLAN International Workshop on the State Of the Art in Java 
Program Analysis (SOAP 2014)
@ PLDI 2014
When: June 12, 2014 in Edinburgh, UK

Web: http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/soap
Publication: ACM Digital Library

DESCRIPTION
Static and dynamic analysis techniques and tools for the Java language 
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 Java such as Soot and WALA 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) in 2012 and 2013 
in conjunction with PLDI.  The presentations and discussions helped 
share new developments and shape new innovations in Java analysis and 
frameworks with a focus on Soot. The workshops received very positive 
feedback from Soot contributors and users as well as other SOAP/PLDI 
attendees.  SOAP '14 will enhance that positive experience with an 
increased emphasis on contributions from outside the Soot community.

For SOAP 2014, we enthusiastically invite contributions and inspirations 
from developers and researchers working with Soot or other analysis 
frameworks.  We are particularly interested in exciting framework ideas, 
innovative designs, and extensions to related languages such as 
JavaScript (as a client-side complement of server-side Java).  The 
workshop agenda will continue its tradition of lively discussion 
sessions on extensions to Soot and integrations and synergies between 
Soot and other frameworks.

FORMAT
The workshop will take one day and will feature an invited talk by a 
leading member of the Java analysis community (regardless of 
relationship with Soot), presentations of all accepted refereed papers 
with plenty of time for discussion, and a lively concluding session for 
a discussion of the present and future of Soot as well as program 
analysis for Java in general.

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 technical details or optimizations, particularly discussing how Soot 
or some other system was used
* A report describing an innovative tool built on top of Soot or a 
similar framework
* A compelling use case for a feature not yet supported by Soot. Such 
work should provide good examples and an informal design of the proposed 
feature.
* An idea paper proposing the integration of two or more existing 
program analyses (which may or may not be based on Soot) to answer 
interesting novel questions about Java programs.  Such papers should 
focus on the added benefit obtained by the combinations.

PUBLICATION
Accepted papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library.  They will also 
be made available to participants by May 11, 2014.
At least one author of each accepted paper must register as a regular 
participant and present their paper in person.

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submissions: March 14, 2014
Notification of authors: April 14, 2014
Submission of camera-ready copies: April 28, 2014
Workshop date: June 12, 2014 (duration: 1 day)

ORGANIZERS
Steven Arzt, European Center for Security and Privacy by Design, 
Darmstadt, Germany
Raul Santelices, University of Notre Dame, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Saswat Anand, Stanford University, USA
Alexandre Bartel, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Eric Bodden, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
Laurie Hendren, McGill University, Canada
Uday Khedker, Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay, India
Patrick Lam, University of Waterloo, Canada
Anders Møller, Aarhus University, Denmark
Rahul Purandare, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology - 
Delhi, India
Elena Sherman, Boise State University, USA
Oksana Tkachuk, NASA Ames, USA
Dacong Yan, Ohio State University, USA