23rd Static Analysis Symposium (SAS)
September 8--10, 2016, Edinburgh, UK
Collocated with
The
Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative
Programming (PPDP 2016) and the Symposium on Logic-based
Program Synthesis and Transformation (LOPSTR 2016)
Objective
Static Analysis is increasingly 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. The 23rd International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2016, will be held in Edinburgh, UK. Previous symposia were held in Saint-Malo, Munich, Seattle, Deauville, Venice, Perpignan, Los Angeles, Valencia, Kongens Lyngby, Seoul, London, Verona, San Diego, Madrid, Paris, Santa Barbara, Pisa, Aachen, Glasgow, and Namur.
Topics
The technical program for SAS 2016 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 | |
| abstract testing | bug detection | |
| data flow analysis | model checking | |
| new applications | program transformation | |
| program verification | security analysis | |
| theoretical frameworks | type checking |
Paper 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. Submissions are handled online:
Artifact Submission
As in previous years, we are encouraging 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. We accept only virtual machine images that can be processed with Virtual Box. Details on what to submit and how will be sent to the corresponding authors by mail shortly after the paper submission deadline.
The submitted artifacts will be used by the program committee as a secondary evaluation criteria whose sole purpose is to find additional positive arguments for the paper's acceptance. Submissions without artifacts are welcome and will not be penalized.
Important dates
| Abstract Submission |
Extended: April 10th, 2016
(anywhere on earth)
|
| Paper Submission |
Extended: April 17th, 2016
(anywhere on earth)
|
| Artifact submission |
Extended: April 24th, 2016
(anywhere on earth)
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| Notification | June 10th, 2016 |
| Final version due | July 3rd, 2016 |
| Conference | September 8-10, 2016 |
Accepted papers
The list of accepted papers is now available here.
Proceedings access
During the conference, please access the proceedings here.
Venue and local information
Venue and local information are provided in the main LOPSTR/PPDP/SAS website.
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. In 2016, the dotation of the price is 3000 euros.
Invited Speakers
- Jade Alglave (Microsoft Research UK)
- Thomas A. Henzinger (IST Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria)
- Fausto Spoto (University of Verona, Italy)
- Martin Vechev (ETH Zurich)
Program Committee
Program Committee Chair
- Xavier Rival, (CNRS & ENS Paris & INRIA Paris, France)
Program Committee
- Bor-Yuh Evan Chang (University of Colorado Boulder, USA)
- Patrick Cousot (New York University, USA and CNRS/ENS/INRIA Paris, France)
- Vijay D'Silva (Google Inc., USA)
- Javier Esparza (Technische Universität München, Germany)
- Jérôme Feret (CNRS/ENS/INRIA Paris)
- Pierre Ganty (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
- Roberto Giacobazzi (University of Verona, Italy and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain)
- Atsushi Igarashi (University of Kyoto, Japan)
- Andy King (University of Kent, UK)
- Francesco Logozzo (Facebook, USA)
- Roman Manevich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel)
- Mathieu Martel (Université de Perpignan - LAMPS, France)
- Jan Midtgaard (Technical University of Denmark, Denmark)
- Ana Milanova (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA)
- Mayur Naik (Georgia Tech, USA)
- Francesco Ranzato (University of Padova, Italy)
- Xavier Rival, (CNRS & ENS Paris & INRIA Paris, France, PC Chair)
- Sukyoung Ryu (KAIST, Korea)
- Francesca Scozzari (Università di Chieti-Pescara, Italy)
- Caterina Urban (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
- Bow-Yaw Wang (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
- Kwangkeun Yi (Seoul National University, Korea)
Organizing Committee
- James Cheney (University of Edinburgh, UK, Local Organizer)
- Moreno Falaschi (University of Siena, Italy)
Sponsors
