10th Workshop on
Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs
FTfJP 2008

Paphos, Cyprus; July 8, 2008

A satellite workshop of ECOOP 2008

ECOOP 2008

Proceedings

The informal proceedings are available as technical report ICIS-R08013 from the Radboud University. There will be no formal publication of papers.

Program

Program Verification (Session chair: Tobias Wrigstad)
9:00 - 9:30Jan Smans, Bart Jacobs and Frank Piessens. Implicit Dynamic Frames
9:30 - 10:00Romain Bardou. Ownership, Pointer Arithmetic and Memory Separation
10:00 - 10:30Dave Cunningham, Susan Eisenbach and Sophia Drossopoulou. Lock Inference Proven Correct
Types (Session chair: Atsushi Igarashi)
10:30 - 11:00Alexander Summers, Peter Müller and Sophia Drossopoulou. A Universe-Type-Based Verification Technique for Mutable Static Fields and Methods
11:00 - 11:30Stefan Wehr and Peter Thiemann. Subtyping Existential Types
11:30 - 12:00Coffee break
Formal Models and extensions of Java-like languages (Session chair: Elvira Albert)
12:00 - 12:30John Boyland. An Operational Semantics including ``Volatile'' for Safe Concurrency
12:30 - 13:00Massimo Bartoletti, Pierpaolo Degano, Roberto Zunino, Gabriele Costa and Fabio Martinelli. Securing Java with Local Policies
13:00 - 13:30Tetsuo Kamina and Tetsuo Tamai. Flexible Object Adaptation for Java-like Languages
13:30 - 15:30Lunch break
Program Analysis (Session chair: Anindya Banerjee)
15:30 - 16:00Elvira Albert, Puri Arenas, Samir Genaim and German Puebla. Dealing with Numeric Fields in Termination Analysis of Java-like Languages
16:00 - 16:30Rok Strniša. Fixing the Java Module System, in Theory and in Practice
16:30 - 17:00Samir Genaim and Fausto Spoto. Constancy Analysis

Important Dates

April 23, 2008
Deadline for submission of abstract
April 30, 2008
Deadline for submission of full paper
May 26, 2008
Notification
June 1, 2008
Deadline for early registration to ECOOP '08
June 9, 2008
Deadline for final version of paper
for informal proceedings
July 8, 2008
Workshop

Program Committee

Organizers

FTfJP: Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs

Purpose

Formal techniques can help analyze programs, precisely describe program behavior, and verify program properties. Newer languages such as Java and C# provide good platforms to bridge the gap between formal techniques and practical program development, because of their reasonably clear semantics and standardized libraries. Moreover, these languages are interesting targets for formal techniques, because the novel paradigm for program deployment introduced with Java, with its improved portability and mobility, opens up new possibilities for abuse and causes concern about security.

Work on formal techniques and tools for programs and work on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. This workshop aims to bring together people working in both these fields, on topics such as:

Contributions are sought on open questions, new developments, or interesting new applications of formal techniques in the context of Java or similar languages, such as C#. Contributions should not merely present completely finished work, but also raise challenging open problems or propose speculative new approaches. We plan to have a special exciting ideas session during the workshop, where challenges, new ideas, open problems and speculative solutions will be presented, with extra room for discussion.

Submissions must be in English and are limited to 10 pages using LNCS style (excluding bibliography). Notice that we explicitly also encourage the submission of short papers (of 4 - 6 pages, especially for the ``exciting ideas'' session). Papers must be submitted electronically via Easy Chair.

A PC member, other than the chair(s), may be an author or co-author on any paper under consideration but will be excluded from any evaluation or discussion of the paper, and will get access to reviews of the paper(s) only in the same manner and time as other authors.

Attendance

If you wish to attend the workshop, but are not an author, PC member or organizer, please ask the organizers via an email to Marieke Huisman.

Publication

Informal proceedings will be made available to workshop participants. There will be no formal publication of papers.

We intend to invite selected papers for a special journal issue as a follow-up to the workshop, as has been done for some previous FTfJP workshops.

Call for contributions (PDF or plain text).



Last modified: June 17th, 2008

Marieke.Huisman@sophia.inria.fr