VPT 2018: Sixth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation Makedonia Palace, Thessaloniki Thessaloniki, Greece, April 20, 2018 |
Conference website | http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2018/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpt2018 |
Abstract registration deadline | January 23, 2018 |
Submission deadline | January 29, 2018 |
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in the fields of Program Verification and Program Transformation.
There is a great potential for beneficial interactions between these two fields because:
- On one hand, methods and tools developed in the field of Program Transformation such as partial evaluation, fold/unfold transformations, and supercompilation, have all been applied with success for the verification of infinite state and parameterized systems.
- On the other hand, model checking, abstract interpretation, SAT and SMT solving and automated theorem proving have been used to enhance program transformation techniques. Moreover, the formal certification of program transformation tools, such as automated refactoring tools and compilers, has recently attracted considerable interest, posed major challenges.
The workshop will provide a forum where researchers from these fields may interact and foster new developments.
The workshop solicits research, position, application, and system description papers with a special emphasis on case studies, demonstrating viability of the interactions between the research fields of program transformation and program verification in a broad sense. Also papers in related areas, such as program testing and program synthesis are welcomed.
The workshop offers twofold benefits for the verification community. On the one hand it will rise awareness of and stimulate the development of novel verification methods and techniques. On the other hand it will draw attention of the community to the novel and challenging verification problems and research opportunities.
Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper in PDF, formatted in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science LaTeX Style (http://style.eptcs.org/), via the Easychair submission website for VPT 2018 ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpt2018 ) by 22nd January.
Papers must describe original work that has not been published, nor is presently submitted, to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Also papers that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted (please contact the PC co-chairs in case of questions).
Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords that will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report.
Submissions should not exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them.
Committees
Program Committee
- John Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain, program chair
- Bishoksan Kafle, The University of Melbourne, Australia
- Andrei Nemytykh, Program Systems, Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia
- Emanuele De Angelis, University G.d'Annunzio of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
- Olivier Danvy, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
- Alexei Lisitsa, a.lisitsa@csc.liv.ac.uk, University of Liverpool, UK
- C. R. Ramakrishnan, cram@cs.stonybrook.edu, Stony Brook University, USA
- Maurizio Proietti, maurizio.proietti@iasi.cnr.it, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy
- Hirohisa Seki, seki@nitech.ac.jp, Nagoya Inst. of Technology, Japan
- Julia Lawall, Julia.Lawall@inria.fr, INRIA, France
- Geoff Hamilton, hamilton@computing.dcu.ie, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Robert Glück, glueck@diku.dk, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- Kostis Sagonas, kostis@it.uu.se, Uppsala University, Sweden
Organizing committee
- Andrei Nemytykh, Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences
- Alexei Lisitsa, University of Liverpool
- John Gallagher, Roskilde University and IMDEA Software Institute
Publication
VPT 2018 proceedings will be published in Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science
Venue
The conference will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece, as a satellite workshop of ETAPS 2018