• CC 2008, International Conference on Compiler Construction
• ESOP 2008, European Symposium on Programming
• FASE 2008, Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
• FOSSACS 2008, Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures
• TACAS 2008, Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

Call for Papers

ETAPS conferences accept two types of contributions: research papers and tool demonstration papers. Both types will appear in the proceedings and have presentations during the conference. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Submitted papers must be in English presenting original research. They must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere. In particular, simultaneous submission of the same contribution to multiple ETAPS conferences is forbidden.

Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF (preferably) or PS (using Type 1 fonts). The proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Final papers will be in the format specified by Springer-Verlag at the URL: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html .

It is recommended that submissions adhere to the specified format and length. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately.

Research Papers

Papers will be not more than 15 pages long. Additional material intended for the referee but not for publication in the final version - for example details of proofs - may be placed in a clearly marked appendix that is not included in the page limit.

Tool Demonstration Papers

Submissions should consist of two parts.

• The first part, at most four pages, should describe the tool presented Please include the URL of the tool (if available) and provide information which illustrates the maturity and robustness of the tool (this part will be included in the proceedings).
• The second part, at most six pages, should explain how the demonstration will be carried out and what it will show, including screen dumps and examples. (This part will be not be included in the proceedings, but will be evaluated.)

Tutorials

Proposals for half-day or full-day tutorials related to ETAPS 2008 are invited. Tutorial proposals will be evaluated on the basis of their assessed benefit for prospective participants of ETAPS 2008. Proposals should include a description of the material that will be covered in the tutorial; a justification of the relevance of the tutorial for ETAPS 2008; a short history of the tutorial if it has been given before; the duration of the tutorial; the key learning objectives for the participants; the intended audience for the tutorial and the required background; and the credentials of the instructors(s).

Important Dates

• 5 October 2007: Submission deadline (strict) for abstracts of research and tool demonstration papers
• 12 October 2007: Submission deadline (strict) for full versions of research and tool demonstration papers
• 7 December 2007: Notification of acceptance/rejection
• 4 January 2008: Camera-ready versions due
• 29 March - 6 April 2008: ETAPS 2008

CC

International Conference on Compiler Construction

CC is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation and analysis, code generation and code optimization
• run-time techniques, including memory management and dynamic and just-in-time compilation
• programming tools, from refactoring editors to checkers to compilers to virtual machines to debuggers
• techniques for specific domains, such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments
• design of novel language constructs and their implementation

Programme Committee

• José Nelson Amaral , University of Alberta, Canada
• Eduard Ayguade , Technical University of Catalunya (UPC), Spain
• Albert Cohen , INRIA Futurs, Orsay, France
• Alain Darte , CNRS, École normale supérieure de Lyon, France
• Martin Elsman , IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• M. Anton Ertl, TU Wien, Austria
• David Gregg, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
• Sumit Gulwani , Microsoft Research, USA
• Görel Hedin, Lund University, Sweden
• Laurie Hendren (chair), McGill University, Canada
• Richard Jones , University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
• Mira Mezini, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
• Ana Milanova , Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
• Antoine Miné, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
• Anders Møller, BRICS, University of Aarhus, Denmark
• Michael O'Boyle, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Peter O'Hearn , Queen Mary, University of London, UK
• Jens Palsberg, UCLA, USA
• Simon Peyton Jones , Microsoft Research Ltd, UK
• Jan Vitek , IBM T.J. Watson, USA and Purdue University, USA
• Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany

Invited Speaker

Michael Schwartzbach, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Conference Page

http://www.sable.mcgill.ca/~hendren/CC2008/

ESOP

European Symposium on Programming,

ESOP is an annual conference devoted to fundamental issues in the specification, analysis, and implementation of programming languages and systems. This includes:

• Design of programming languages and calculi and their formal properties
• Techniques, methods, and tools for their implementation
• Exploitation of programming styles within different programming paradigms
• Automatic and manual methods for generating and reasoning about programs
• The design and invention of systems and tools to assist in exploitation of the languages

Contributions bridging the gap between theory and practice are particularly welcome. Topics traditionally covered by ESOP include programming paradigms and their integration, semantics, calculi of computation, security and privacy, advanced type systems, program analysis, program transformation, and practical algorithms based on theoretical developments.

Programme Committee

• Davide Ancona, University of Genova,
• Manuel M T Chakravarty, University of New South Wales,
• Dave Clarke, Cenrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica (CWI),
• Adriana Compagnoni, Stevens Institute of Technology,
• Sophia Drossopoulou (chair), Imperial College London,
• Manuel Faehndrich, Microsoft Research Redmond,
• Sabine Glesner, Technical University of Berlin,
• Robert Harper, Carnegie Mellon University,
• Shriram Krishnamurthi, Brown University,
• Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego,
• Peter Mueller, ETH Zurich,
• Alan Mycroft, Cambridge University,
• David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology,
• Catuscia Palamidessi, INRIA,
• Matthew Parkinson, University of Cambridge,
• German Puebla, Technical University of Madrid,
• Andrei Sabelfeld, Chalmers University of Technology,
• Vijay Saraswat, Penn State University and IBM TJ Watson Research Lab,
• Kostis Sagonas, National Technical University of Athens,
• Eijiro Sumii, Tohoku University,
• Walid Taha, Rice University,
• Frank Tip, IBM Watson Research Center,
• Philip Wadler, University of Edinburgh,
• Joe Wells, Heriot-Watt University,

Invited Speaker

Thierry Coquand, Göteborg University, Sweden

Conference Page

http://esop2008.doc.ic.ac.uk/

FASE

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

FASE is concerned with the foundations on which Software Engineering is built. Submissions should not focus on the application or evaluation of given methods, tools or techniques for their own sake but, rather, the principles on which they are based and the way in which they contribute to making Software Engineering a more mature and soundly-based discipline. Contributions that combine the development of conceptual and methodological advances with their formal foundations and tool support are particularly encouraged. We welcome contributions on all such fundamental approaches, including:

• SE as an engineering discipline, including its interaction with and impact on society;
• Requirements engineering;
• Domain modelling;
• Software architectures;
• Engineering of particular classes of systems (collaborative, service-oriented, software-intensive, ubiquitous);
• Software processes;
• Model-driven development;
• Software evolution;
• Validation and verification;
• Testing.

Programme Committee

• Don BATORY, University of Texas at Austin (US)
• Ruth BREU, University of Innsbruck (AT)
• Carlos CANAL, University of Málaga (ES)
• Maura CERIOLI, University of Genova (IT)
• Shing-chi CHEUNG, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (CN)
• Vittorio CORTELLESSA, University of l'Aquila (IT)
• Laurie DILLON, Michigan State University (US)
• Marlon DUMAS, Queensland University of Technology (AU)
• Schahram DUSTDAR, Technical University of Vienna (AT)
• Jose FIADEIRO, University of Leicester (UK), co-chair
• Harald GALL, University of Zürich (CH)
• Dimitra GIANNAKOPOULOU, NASA Ames Research Center (US)
• Holger GIESE, University of Paderborn (DE)
• Martin GLINZ, University of Zürich (CH)
• Reiko HECKEL, University of Leicester (UK)
• Paola INVERARDI, University of l'Aquila (IT), co-chair
• Valerie ISSARNY, INRIA Rocquencourt (FR)
• Daniel LE METAYER, INRIA Alpes (FR)
• Gary T. LEAVENS, Iowa State University (US)
• Antonia LOPES, University of Lisbon (PT)
• Angelika MADER, University of Twente (NL)
• Tom MAIBAUM, McMaster University (CA)
• Dominique MERY, University of Nancy (FR)
• Oscar NIERSTRASZ, University of Berne (CH)
• David ROSENBLUM, University College London (UK)
• Tetsuo TAMAI, University of Tokyo (JP)
• Gabriele TAENTZER, Philipps-Universität Marburg (DE)
• Sebastian UCHITEL, Imperial College London (UK)
• Martin WIRSING, University of Munich (DE)
• Pamela ZAVE, AT&T Labs (US)

Invited Speaker

Connie Heitmeyer, Naval Research Lab, US

Conference Page

http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/fase2008/

FOSSACS

Foundations of Software Science and Computation Structures

FOSSACS seeks original papers on foundational research with a clear significance for software science. The conference invites submissions on theories and methods to support the analysis, integration, synthesis, transformation, and verification of programs and software systems.

Topics covered include, but are not limited to:

• Algebraic models,
• Automata and language theory,
• Behavioural equivalences,
• Categorical models,
• Computation processes over discrete and continuous data,
• Infinite state systems
• Computation structures,
• Logics of programs,
• Modal, spatial, and temporal logics,
• Models of concurrent, reactive, distributed, and mobile systems,
• Process algebras and calculi,
• Semantics of programming languages,
• Software specification and refinement,
• Type systems and type theory.
• Fundamentals of security
• Semi-structured data
• Program correctness and verification

Programme Committee

• Luca Aceto, Reijkjavik University
  
• Roberto Amadio (chair), Paris 7 University
  
• Lars Birkedal, IT University of Copenhagen
  
• Hubert Comon,ENS Cachan
  
• Thierry Coquand, Göteborg University
  
• Zoltan Esik, Szeged
  
• Dan Ghica, University of Birmingham
  
• Juergen Giesl, RWTH Aachen
  
• Martin Hofmann, LMU Munich
  
• Radha Jagadeesan, DePaul University
  
• Petr Jancar, Techincal University of Ostrava
  
• Leonid Libkin, University of Edinburgh
  
• Dale Miller, INRIA Futurs
  
• Eugenio Moggi, Genova
  
• Anca Muscholl, LABRI, Bordeaux
  
• Vincent van Oostrom, Utrecht University
  
• Prakash Panangaden, McGill University
  
• Jean-Francois Raskin, Bruxelles
  
• David Sands, Göteborg University
  
• Roberto Bruni, University of Pisa
  
• Colin Stirling, University of Edinburgh
  
• Pawel Urzyczyn,University of Warszawa
  
• Nobuko Yoshida, Imperial College, University of London
  
• Thomas Wilke, University of Kiel
  

Invited Speaker

Igor Walukiewicz, LaBRI Bordeaux

Conference Page

http://fossacs08.pps.jussieu.fr/

TACAS

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems

TACAS is a forum for researchers, developers and users interested in rigorously based tools and algorithms for the construction and analysis of systems. The conference serves to bridge the gaps between different communities that share common interests in, and techniques for, tool development and its algorithmic foundations. The research areas covered by such communities include but are not limited to formal methods, software and hardware verification, static analysis, programming languages, software engineering, real-time systems, communications protocols, and biological systems. The TACAS forum provides a venue for such communities at which common problems, heuristics, algorithms, data structures and methodologies can be discussed and explored. In doing so, TACAS aims to support researchers in their quest to improve the utility, reliability, flexibility and efficiency of tools and algorithms for building systems.

Tool descriptions and case studies with a conceptual message, as well as theoretical papers with clear relevance for tool construction are all encouraged. The specific topics covered by the conference include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Specification and verification techniques for finite and infinite-state systems
• Software and hardware verification
• Theorem-proving and model-checking
• System construction and transformation techniques
• Static and run-time analysis
• Abstraction techniques for modeling and validation
• Compositional and refinement-based methodologies
• Testing and test-case generation
• Analytical techniques for secure, real-time, hybrid, critical, biological or dependable systems
• Integration of formal methods and static analysis in high-level hardware design or software environments
• Tool environments and tool architectures
• SAT solvers
• Applications and case studies

As TACAS addresses a heterogeneous audience, potential authors are strongly encouraged to write about their ideas and findings in general and jargon-independent, rather than in application- and domain-specific, terms. Authors reporting on tools or case studies are strongly encouraged to indicate how their experimental results can be reproduced and confirmed independently.

Programme Committee

Invited Speaker

Sharad Malik , Princeton, USA

Conference Page

http://www.cs.stonybrook.edu/~tacas2008