SAS 2013 - 20th Static Analysis Symposium

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 20th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2013, will be held in Seattle, WA, USA, co-located with the ACM Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation. Previous symposia were held in 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 2013 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
Submissions can address any programming paradigm, including concurrent, constraint, functional, imperative, logic, object-oriented, aspect, multi-core, distributed, and GPU programming. Survey papers, that present some aspect of the above topics with a new coherence, and application papers, that describe experience with industrial applications, are also welcomed.
Submission Information
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 20 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.
Artifact Submission
New this year, 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. Details on what to submit and how will be forthcoming.
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.
Program Chairs
Francesco Logozzo
Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Manuel Fahndrich
Microsoft Research Redmond, USA
Program Committee
Ana Milanova
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
Anindya Banerjee
IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Antoine Miné
CNRS & Ecole Normale Supérieure, France
Arie Gurfinkel
SEI Carnegie Mellon, USA
Atsushi Igarashi
Kyoto University, Japan
Elvira Albert
Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Enea Zaffanella
University of Parma and BUGSENG, Italy
Franjo Ivancic
NEC Laboratories America, USA
Helmut Seidl
TU Muenchen, Germany
Hongseok Yang
University of Oxford, UK
Isil Dillig
College of William & Mary, USA
John Boyland
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Mila Dalla Preda
University of Bologna, Italy
Mooly Sagiv
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Nicolas Halbwachs
CNRS/VERIMAG, France
Olin Shivers
Northeastern University, USA
Ranjit Jhala
UC San Diego, USA
Wei-Ngan Chin
National Univ of Singapore
Werner Dietl
University of Washington, USA
Steering Committee
Patrick Cousot
Ecole Normale Superieure, France & NYU, USA
Radhia Cousot
CNRS & Ecole Normale Superieure, France
Roberto Giacobazzi
University of Verona, Italy
Gilberto File
University of Padova, Italy
Manuel Hermenegildo
IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
David Schmidt
Kansas State University, USA