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CALL FOR PAPERS

FTfJP 2024

26th Workshop on Formal Techniques for Java-like Programs20 September 2024, Vienna, Austria

https://conf.researchr.org/home/issta-ecoop-2024/FTfJP-2024

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=== Important dates ===

- Paper submission: 19 June 2024 (AoE)

- Paper notification: 24 July 2024 (AoE)

-Workshop date: 20 September 2024, colocated with ISSTA/ECOOP 2024 (16-20 September 2024)

Deadlines expire at 23:59 anywhere on earth on the dates displayed above.

Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2024

=== Objectives and scope ===

Formal techniques can help analyse programs, precisely describe programbehaviour, and verify program properties. Modern programming languagesare interesting targets for formal techniques due to their ubiquity and wideuser base, stable and well-defined interfaces and platforms, and powerful(but also complex) libraries. New languages and applications in this space arecontinually arising, resulting in new programming languages  researchchallenges.

Work on formal techniques and tools and on the formal underpinnings ofprogramming languages themselves naturally complement each other. FTfJP is anestablished workshop which has run annually since 1999 alongside ECOOP, withthe goal of bringing together people working in both fields.

The workshop has a broad PL theme; the most important criterion is thatsubmissions will generate interesting discussions within this community. Theterm 'Java-like' is somewhat historic and should be interpreted broadly: FTfJPsolicits and welcomes submission relating to programming languages in general,beyond Java. Past editions of FTfJP have featured work on C++, JavaScript, Rust,and other languages and calculi. The term 'formal techniques' has a similarlybroad interpretation.

Example topics of interest include:

• Language design and semantics
• Type systems
• Concurrency and new application domains
• Specification and verification of program properties
• Program analysis (static or dynamic)
• Program synthesis
• Security
• Pearls (programs or proofs)

FTfJP welcomes submissions on technical contributions, case studies, experience reports, challenge proposals, tools, and position papers. Webpages for previous workshops in this series are available at  https://ftfjp.github.io/.

=== Paper Categories ===

Contributions are sought in two categories:

• Full Papers (6 pages, excluding references) present a technical contribution, case study, or detailed experience report. We welcome both complete and incomplete technical results; ongoing work is particularly welcome, provided it is substantial enough to stimulate interesting discussions.
• Short Papers (2 pages, excluding references) should advocate a promising research direction, or otherwise present a position likely to stimulate discussion at the workshop. We encourage e.g. established researchers to set out a personal vision, and beginning researchers to present a planned path to a PhD.

Both types of contributions will benefit from feedback received at the workshop. Submissions will be peer reviewed, and will be evaluated based on their clarity and their potential to generate interesting discussions. Reviewing will be single blind, i.e, submissions need not be anonymized.

The format of the workshop encourages interaction. FTfJP is a forum in which a wide range of people share their expertise, from experienced researchers to beginning PhD students.

=== Submission guidelines ===

All submissions and reviews will be managed within EasyChair. Submissions should be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ftfjp2024. There is no need to indicate the paper category (long/short).

Submissions should be in acmart/sigplan style, 10pt font. Formatting requirements are detailed on the SIGPLAN Author Information page (https://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author).

We plan that, as in previous years, accepted papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library, though authors will be able to opt out of this publication, if desired. At least one author of an accepted paper must register to the conference by the early registration date and attend the workshop to present the work and participate in the discussions.

=== Steering Committee ===

• Werner Dietl, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Radu Grigore, Facebook, United Kingdom
• Gary T. Leavens, University of Central Florida, United States
• Rosemary Monahan, National University of Ireland, Ireland (SC chair)
• Alexander J. Summers, University of British Columbia, Canada

=== Program Committee ===

• Vincenzo Arceri, University of Parma, Italy
• Avik Chaudhuri, Facebook, United States
• Luca Di Stefano, TU Wien, Austria (chair)
• Claire Dross, AdaCore, France
• Madalina Erascu, Institute e-Austria Timisoara, Romania
• Marie-Christine Jakobs, LMU Munich, Germany
• Kenny Lu Zhuo Ming, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
• Lina Marsso, University of Toronto, Canada
• Henrique Rebelo, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil
• Silvia Lizeth Tapia Tarifa, University of Oslo, Norway
• Oksana Tkachuk, Amazon Web Services, United States