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            The First International Conference on

           Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2011)

                PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

 

                        Kenting, Taiwan

                  December 7--9, 2011

                http://formes.asia/cpp

 

              (co-located with APLAS 2011)

 

 

CPP is a new international forum on theoretical and practical topics

in all areas, including computer science, mathematics, and education,

that consider certification as an essential paradigm for their work.

Certification here means formal, mechanized verification of some sort,

preferably with production of independently checkable certificates.

We invite submissions on topics that fit under this rubric.

 

Suggested, but not exclusive, specific topics of interest for

submissions include: certified or certifying programming, compilation,

linking, OS kernels, runtime systems, and security monitors; program

logics, type systems, and semantics for certified code; certified

decision procedures, mathematical libraries, and mathematical

theorems; proof assistants and proof theory; new languages and tools

for certified programming; program analysis, program verification, and

proof-carrying code; certified secure protocols and transactions;

certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra,

polynomial systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest;

certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality,

first-order logic, and higher-order unification; certificates for

program termination; logics for certifying concurrent and distributed

programs; higher-order logics, logical systems, separation logics, and

logics for security; and teaching mathematics and computer science

with proof assistants.

 

IMPORTANT DATES:

 

Authors are required to submit a paper title and a short abstract

before submitting the full paper.  The submission should include when

necessary a url where to find the formal development assessing the

essential aspects of the work.  All submissions will be

electronic. All deadlines are at midnight (GMT).

 

  Abstract Deadline:           Monday, June 13, 2011

  Paper Submission Deadline:   Friday, June 17, 2011

  Author Notification:         Monday, August 29, 2011

  Camera Ready:                Monday, September 19, 2011

  Conference:                  December 7-9, 2011

 

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS:

 

Papers should be submitted electronically online via the conference

submission web page at URL:

 

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpp2011

 

Acceptable formats are PostScript or PDF, viewable by Ghostview or

Acrobat Reader. Submissions should not exceed 16 pages in LNCS format,

including bibliography and figures.  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. The proceedings of the symposium will

be published as a volume in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in

Computer Science series. Submission instructions including Latex

style files are available from the CPP 2011 website.

 

Each submission must be written in English and provide sufficient

detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the

paper.  It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a

summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their

significance and relevance to the conference, all phrased for the

non-specialist.  Technical and formal developments directed to the

specialist should follow.  Whenever appropriate, the submission should

come along with a formal development, using whatever prover, e.g.,

Agda, Coq, Elf, HOL, HOL-Light, Isabelle, Matita, Mizar, NQTHM, PVS,

Vampire, etc. References and comparisons with related work should be

included.  Papers not conforming to the above requirements concerning

format and length may be rejected without further consideration.

 

The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication

elsewhere, including the proceedings of other published conferences or

workshops.  The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work

submitted to a conference or journal in advance of

submission. Original formal proofs of known results in mathematics or

computer science are among the targets.  One author of each accepted

paper is expected to present it at the conference.

 

 

AWARD FOR BEST PAPER:

 

An award will be given for the best accepted paper, as judged by the

program committee.  Details concerning eligibility criteria and

procedure for consideration for this award will be posted at the CPP

website.  The committee may decline to make the award or split it

among several papers.

 

 

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:

Jean-Pierre Jouannaud   (INRIA and Tsinghua University)

Zhong Shao              (Yale University)

Email: cpp2011pc AT gmail.com

 

GENERAL CHAIR:

Yih-Kuen Tsay           (National Taiwan University)

 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

 

Andrea Asperti          (University of Bologna)

Gilles Barthe           (IMDEA Software Institute)

Xiao-Shan Gao           (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

Georges Gonthier        (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

Chris Hawblitzel        (Microsoft Research Redmond)

John Harrison           (Intel Corporation)

Jean-Pierre Jouannaud   (INRIA and Tsinghua University)

Akash Lal               (Microsoft Research India)

Xavier Leroy            (INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt)

Yasuhiko Minamide       (University of Tsukuba)

Shin-Cheng Mu           (Academia Sinica)

Michael Norrish         (NICTA)

Brigitte Pientka        (McGill University)

Sandip Ray              (University of Texas at Austin)

Natarajan Shankar       (SRI International)

Zhong Shao              (Yale University)

Christian Urban         (TU Munich)

Viktor Vafeiadis        (Max Planck Institute for Software Systems)

Stephanie Weirich       (University of Pennsylvania)

Kwangkeun Yi            (Seoul National University)

 

PUBLICITY CHAIR:

Bow-Yaw Wang            (Academia Sinica, INRIA and Tsinhua University)

 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:

Tyng-Ruey Chuang (chair), Shin-Cheng Mu, Yih-Kuen Tsay

                         (Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University)

Email: cpp2011oc AT gmail.com