About the Conference

Overview

Formal techniques can help analyze programs, precisely describe program behavior, and verify program properties. Newer languages such as Java and C# provide good platforms to bridge the gap between formal techniques and practical program development, because of their reasonably clear semantics and standardized libraries. Moreover, these languages are interesting targets for formal techniques, because the novel paradigm for program deployment introduced with Java, with its improved portability and mobility, opens up new possibilities for abuse and causes concern about security.

Work on formal techniques and tools for programs and work on the formal underpinnings of programming languages themselves naturally complement each other. This workshop aims to bring together people working in both these fields, on topics such as:

• formal techniques for Java, C#, Scala or similar languages
• specification techniques and interface specification languages
• specification of software components and library packages
• automated checking and verification of program properties,
• verification logics,
• language semantics,
• type systems,
• dynamic linking and loading,
• security.

Program Committee

Bernhard Beckert, University of Koblenz, Germany
Lars Birkedal IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Dino Distefano, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Clément Hurlin, INRIA Bordeaux, France
Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (co-chair)
Adriaan Moors, EPFL Lausanne, Switzerland
Peter Müller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Frank Piessens Katholieke, Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (chair)
Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Robby, Kansas State University, US
Wolfram Schulte, Microsoft Research, US
Isabelle Simplot-Ryl, INRIA Lille, France
Jan Smans, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Nikhil Swamy, Microsoft Research, US
Viktor Vafeiadis, University of Cambridge, UK

Organization

Sophia Drossopoulou, Imperial College, London, Great Britain
Susan Eisenbach, Imperial College, London, Great Britain
Bart Jacobs, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (co-chair)
Gary T. Leavens, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, USA
Peter Müller, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Frank Piessens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium (chair)
Arnd Poetzsch-Heffter, Universität Kaiserlautern, Germany
Erik Poll, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Conference Dates