TAPAS 2014 - Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis

by Anders Møller, March 18, 2014

In the last ten years, a wide range of static analysis tools have emerged, some of which are currently in industrial use or are well beyond the advanced prototype level. Many impressive practical results have been obtained, which allow complex properties to be proven or checked in a fully or semi-automatic way, even in the context of complex software developments. In parallel, the techniques to design and implement static analysis tools have improved significantly, and much effort is being put into engineering the tools. This workshop is intended to promote discussions and exchange experience between specialists in all areas of program analysis design and implementation and static analysis tool users.

TAPAS 2014

Workshop on Tools for Automatic Program Analysis 2014

 http://cs.au.dk/tapas2014/


Objective

In the last ten years, a wide range of static analysis tools have emerged, some of which are currently in industrial use or are well beyond the advanced prototype level. Many impressive practical results have been obtained, which allow complex properties to be proven or checked in a fully or semi-automatic way, even in the context of complex software developments. In parallel, the techniques to design and implement static analysis tools have improved significantly, and much effort is being put into engineering the tools. This workshop is intended to promote discussions and exchange experience between specialists in all areas of program analysis design and implementation and static analysis tool users.

Previous workshops have been held in Perpignan, France (2010), Venice, Italy (2011), Deauville, France (2012), and Seattle, WA, USA (2013).

TAPAS 2014 will be co-located with SAS 2014, in Munich, Germany, September 10, 2014.

Scope

The technical program of TAPAS 2014 will consist of invited lectures together with presentations based on submitted abstracts.

Submitted presentation abstracts can cover any aspect of program analysis tools including, but not limited to the following:

  • design and implementation of static analysis tools (including practical techniques used for obtaining precision and performance)
  • components of static analysis tools (front-ends, abstract domains, etc.)
  • integration of static analyzers (in proof assistants, test generation tools, IDEs, etc.)
  • reusable software infrastructure (analysis algorithms and frameworks)
  • experience reports on the use of static analyzers (both research prototypes and industrial tools)   

Submission of Presentation Abstracts

All submitted abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee.

Submitted abstracts should be 1-2 pages, and use the ACM proceedings format.

Invited Speakers

Alexey Loginov, GrammaTech

David Pichardie, ENS Cachan

Eric Bodden, Fraunhofer SIT, Technische Universität Darmstadt

Yannis Smaragdakis, University of Athens

Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo 

Dates

 Submission deadline: June 27
 Notification of acceptance: July 11
 Final version due: July 25
 Early registration: On or before July 20, 2014
 Workshop day: September 10, 2014

Organizers

Anders Møller, Aarhus University (chair)

Ondrej Lhotak, University of Waterloo

Antoine Miné, École Normale Supérieure

Manu Sridharan, Samsung Research America

Hongseok Yang, University of Oxford