ACM SIGPLAN Fourth Workshop on
Programming Languages and Analysis for Security
(PLAS 2009)

Important Dates

• Submission due date: Friday, April 3, 2009
• Author notification: Friday, May 1, 2009
• Revised papers due: Monday, May 18, 2009
• Student travel grant applications due: Friday, May 29, 2009
• PLAS 2009 workshop: Monday, June 15, 2009

Announcements

• Registration for PLAS 2009 and accommodation information is available through the PLDI website.
• Application forms for student travel grants are now available.

Preliminary Program

All sessions will be held in the Lloyd Institute Building, Theater 1. Lunch will be held in the dining hall. (See campus map for details.)

Call For Papers

PLAS aims to provide a forum for exploring and evaluating ideas on the use of programming language and program analysis techniques to improve the security of software systems. Strongly encouraged are proposals of new, speculative ideas; evaluations of new or known techniques in practical settings; and discussions of emerging threats and important problems.

The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to:

• Language-based techniques for security
• Verification of security properties in software
• Automated introduction and/or verification of security enforcement mechanisms
• Program analysis techniques for discovering security vulnerabilities
• Compiler-based security mechanisms, such as host-based intrusion detection and in-line reference monitors
• Specifying and enforcing security policies for information flow and access control
• Model-driven approaches to security
• Applications, examples, and implementations of these security techniques in domains including web applications, embedded software, etc.

Submission Guidelines

Papers can be submitted at the EasyChair website. The submission due date is Friday, April 3, 2009. All submissions must be in English.

We invite papers of two kinds: (1) Technical papers for long presentations during the workshop, and (2) papers for short presentations (10 minutes). Papers submitted for the long format should contain relatively mature content. Short format papers can also contain mature work, but may present more preliminary work, position statements, or work that is more exploratory in nature. Long papers will appear in a formal proceedings. Short papers fall into two categories: formal short papers to appear in the proceedings, and informal short papers that will not; authors choose the category at the time of submission. The idea is to allow prospective participants to talk about less mature work that is not yet ready for formal publication.

Papers to appear in the proceedings must describe work unpublished in refereed venues, and not submitted for publication elsewhere (including journals and formal proceedings of conferences and workshops). See the SIGPLAN republication policy for more details http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/republicationpolicy.htm. The proceedings will be made available to the workshop participants, and its papers will be available in the ACM Digital Library.

Informal short presentations will have their abstracts included in the final proceedings, and may include previously-published material (which should be cited in the submission). Informal short presentations are not precluded for future publication at other conference venues or journals. Authors must indicate that they do not intend their paper to appear in the proceedings by prepending Informal Presentation: to the title of the submitted paper.

Submitted papers must be formatted according the ACM proceedings format using 10pt fonts: long submissions should not exceed 12 pages in this format; short submissions should not exceed 6 pages. These page limits include everything (i.e., they are the total length of the paper). Papers submitted for the long category may be accepted as short presentations at the program committee's discretion.

Submissions should be PDF documents. SIGPLAN-approved templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigplan/authorInformation.htm. We recommend using this format, which improves greatly on the ACM LaTeX format.

Authors may optionally anonymize their submission, by removing their names and other identifying information from the PDF file submitted. Reviewers will not have access to a submission's author list in EasyChair. If a submission is anonymized, then reviewers will not know the submission's author list.

Student Travel Grants

Student attendees of PLAS can apply for a travel grant (in addition to any PLDI travel grants), thanks to the generous support of IBM Research and Microsoft Research.

Instructions for applicants are available here. Applications must be received by Friday, May 29, 2009.

Program Committee

• Aslan Askarov, Cornell University, USA
• Brian Chess, Fortify Software, USA
• Stephen Chong, Harvard University, USA (co-chair)
• Úlfar Erlingsson, Reykjavík University, Iceland
• Kevin W. Hamlen, University of Texas at Dallas, USA
• Benjamin Livshits, Microsoft Research, USA
• Pasquale Malacaria, Queen Mary University of London, UK
• David Naumann, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA (co-chair)
• Marco Pistoia, IBM Research, USA
• François Pottier, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France
• Tamara Rezk, INRIA Sophia Antipolis-Méditerranée, France
• Tachio Terauchi, Tohoku University, Japan
• David Wagner, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Sponsored by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Sponsored by ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages (SIGPLAN)

Supported by Microsoft Research

Supported by IBM Research