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Call For Papers International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership in object-oriented programming (IWACO) Celebrating 20 years of aliasing research at ECOOP 2011 July 25th, 2011, Lancaster, UK http://ecs.victoria.ac.nz/Events/IWACO2011/ Call For Papers =============== 2011 is the 20th anniversary of "The Geneva Convention on The Treatment of Object Aliasing", which started research in aliasing and led to the development of object-ownership techniques. To celebrate, IWACO 2011 will be a special edition; we are in negotiation to publish a book (edited by members of the organising committee) containing the best papers from IWACO '11 and invited papers of a survey or retrospective nature. In addition to original research papers, we encourage authors to submit position papers and papers considering future research directions. The power of objects lies in the flexibility of their interconnection structure. But this flexibility comes at a cost. Because an object can be modified via any alias, object-oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse. Aliasing makes objects depend on their environment in unpredictable ways, breaking the encapsulation necessary for reliable software components, making it difficult to reason about and optimise programs, obscuring the flow of information between objects, and introducing security problems. Aliasing is a fundamental difficulty, but we accept its presence. Instead we seek techniques for describing, reasoning about, restricting, analysing, and preventing the connections between objects and/or the flow of information between them. Promising approaches to these problems are based on ownership, confinement, information flow, sharing control, escape analysis, argument independence, read-only references, effects systems, and access control mechanisms. The workshop will generally address the question how to manage interconnected object structures in the presence of aliasing. In particular, we will consider the following issues (among others): * models, type and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing object ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and/or information flow. * optimisation techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting object ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and/or information flow. * empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these issues in mind * novel applications of aliasing management techniques such as ownership types, ownership domains, confined types, region types, and uniqueness. We encourage not only submissions presenting original research results, but also papers that attempt to establish links between different approaches and/or papers that include survey material. Original research results should be clearly described, and their usefulness to practitioners outlined. Paper selection will be based on the quality of the submitted material. The workshop will be held as part of the ECOOP'11 conference taking place in Lancaster, England. Programme Committee ------------------- Nicholas Cameron (chair, Victoria University of Wellington) Dave Clarke (KU Leuven) Werner Dietl (University of Washington) Ioannis Kassios (ETH Zurich) Doug Lea (State University of New York at Oswego) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Matthew Parkinson (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Uppsala University) Important Dates --------------- 15 April, 2011: paper submission deadline 20 May, 2011: author notification 25 May, 2011: full program disseminated 24 June, 2011: papers available 25 July, 2011: workshop takes place Organisers ---------- Dave Clarke (KU Leuven) James Noble (Victoria University of Wellington) Tobias Wrigstad (Uppsala University) Peter Muller (ETH Zurich) Matthew Parkinson (Microsoft Research, Cambridge) Participation ------------- The number of participants is limited to 25. Apart from those with accepted papers, others may attend by sending an email to Nicholas Cameron (ncame...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz) indicating what contribution you could make to the workshop. A small number of places will be reserved for PhD students and other researchers wishing to begin research in this area. Selection Process ----------------- Both full papers (up to 10 pgs.) and short papers (1-2 pgs.) are welcome. All submissions will be reviewed by the programme committee. The accepted papers, after rework by the authors, will be published in the Workshop Proceedings, which will be distributed at the workshop. All accepted submissions shall remain available from the workshop web page. Papers should be submitted via Easychair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwaco11 by 15 April, 2011. Submissions should be in English. Queries ------- Queries may be directed to Nicholas Cameron (ncame...@ecs.vuw.ac.nz).