Subject: Call for papers: PASTE 2005, Program Analysis for Software Tools & Engineering

                           Call for papers

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                              PASTE 2005
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                  6th ACM SIGPLAN-SIGSOFT Workshop on
          Program Analysis for Software Tools and Engineering

                  http://pag.csail.mit.edu/paste2005/

                     Co-located with ESEC/FSE 2005
                          September 5-6, 2005
                           Lisbon, Portugal


Firm submission deadline:  June 1, 2005  (11:59pm Apia, Samoa time)

PASTE 2005 is the sixth workshop in a series that brings together the
program analysis, software tools, and software engineering communities
to focus on applications of program analysis techniques in software
tools.  PASTE 2005 will provide a forum for the presentation of
exciting research, empirical results, and new directions in areas
including (but not limited to):

    * program analysis for program understanding, debugging, testing,
      and reverse engineering
    * integration of program analysis into programming environments
    * user interfaces for software tools and software visualization
    * applications of program slicing, model checking, and other
      program analysis techniques
    * analysis of program execution or program evolution
    * integration of, or tradeoffs between, different analysis
      techniques
    * issues in scaling analyses and user interfaces to deal with
      large systems

PASTE 2005, co-located with ESEC/FSE, will be a true workshop, with a
duration of 2 days.  In addition to presentations of refereed
papers, there will be invited talks, organized discussions on areas of
widespread interest, an opportunity for all attendees to make a short
(five minute) presentation of their work or other topics, and ample
time for general discussion and debate.

Attendance is open to all interested parties, although enrollment will
be capped to encourage discussions and interaction.  Students are
encouraged to attend and may apply for support from ACM.  A
proceedings of invited and regular papers will be published by ACM.

We are soliciting papers in two distinct categories:

Short papers (3 page limit)
    Short papers that discuss controversial issues in the field, or
    describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet
    fully developed.
Long papers (6 page limit)
    Research papers that describe ongoing research or new results. 

The program committee will aim to select a program containing a mix of
the best submitted papers in each of these categories, with a primary
aim of encouraging productive discussion and inspiring new
research.  Long papers will be expected to have a somewhat higher
degree of technical rigor than short papers.

Papers should be formatted using the ACM SIG templates, and, including
figures and references, should not exceed the page limit.  Submission
of papers in PDF (preferred) and/or Postscript format will be accepted
at the PASTE submission page starting on May 11.  Submissions must be
received on or before June 1, 2005.

Important dates:

   May 11       Submissions open
   June 1       Deadline for submissions (23:59, Apia, Somoa time)
                http://www.paperdyne.com/paste2005.html
   June 27      Notification of acceptance
   July 1       Early registration (with hotel guarantee)
   July 31      Early registration (with best-effort hotel accommodations)
   Aug. 15      Final camera-ready version of papers due
   Sept. 5-6    PASTE 2005 in Lisbon, Portugal

Program committee:

   Anindya Banerjee, Kansas State University
   Perry Cheng, IBM Research
   Michael Ernst (co-chair) Massachusetts Institute of Technology
   David Evans, University of Virginia
   Thomas Jensen (co-chair), IRISA/CNRS
   Todd Millstein, University of California at Los Angeles
   Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University
   Erik Poll, Raboud University Nijmegen
   Barbara Ryder, Rutgers University
   Andreas Zeller, Saarland University 

For more information, see the PASTE workshop website:
http://pag.csail.mit.edu/paste2005/

We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon!