(Deadline Extension) Dafny Workshop at POPL 24

by Stefan Zetzsche, Oct. 16, 2023

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** Update: Extended Deadline
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** CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS
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** Dafny at POPL 2024
** 1st Workshop on the Dafny Programming and Verification Language
** 14th of January 2024, London, United Kingdom
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** Submission Deadline:
** October 18, 2023
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** https://popl24.sigplan.org/home/dafny-2024
** https://dafny24.hotcrp.com/
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* OVERVIEW

Dafny is a verification-aware programming language that has native support
for specifications and proofs, and is equipped with an auto-active static
program verifier. The workshop aims to provide a platform for reports about
applications of Dafny in industry, research on programming-language concepts
that are relevant to Dafny, and talks about Dafny’s role in teaching. Topics
include but are not limited to the following:

- Relation to Hoare logic, Incorrectness logic, Outcome logic, over- and
 under-approximation, ...
- Interactive theorem proving and SMT automation
- Coinduction and corecursion
- Dynamic frames vs. separation logic vs. ownership
- Test generation for Dafny
- Specification and proof inference for Dafny
- Extensions and applications of Dafny
- Alternative verifier backends
- Program verification at industry-scale
- Translation to or from Dafny and other languages
- Logical foundations for Dafny (partial functions, nonempty types, extreme
 predicates, ...)
- Dafny in teaching
- Comparison with other auto-active program verifiers (SPARK, F*, Why3,
 Viper, Whiley, ...)
- Comparison with other proof assistants (Coq, Isabelle/HOL, Lean, ...)

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** IMPORTANT DATES
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- Submission: Wednesday, October 18, 2023 (AoE)
- Notification: Wednesday, November 15, 2023
- Workshop: Sunday, January 14, 2024

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** ORGANISATION
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Program Chairs:
- Joseph Tassarotti (New York University)
- Stefan Zetzsche (Amazon Web Services)

Program Committee:
- Adam Chlipala (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Jean-Christophe Filliatre (CNRS)
- Andrea Lattuada (VMware Research Group)
- Elaine Li (New York University)
- Peter Müller (ETH Zurich)
- Nadia Polikarpova (University of California, San Diego)

Steering Committee:
- Rustan Leino (Amazon Web Services)
- Jean-Baptiste Tristan (Amazon Web Services)

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** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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To give a presentation at the workshop, please submit an anonymous extended
abstract (2-6 pages, excluding references) via hotcrp:

https://dafny24.hotcrp.com

Please use the acmart two-column sigplan sub-format LaTeX style to prepare
your submission:

https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/

We don’t intend to publish the workshop’s submissions. However, presentations
may be recorded and the videos may be made publicly available.

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** CONTACT
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All questions about submission should be emailed to the program chairs Stefan
Zetzsche ([email protected]) and Joseph Tassarotti ([email protected]).