ACM SIGPLAN 11th Workshop on Programming Languages and Analysis for Security (PLAS 2016) Vienna, Austria October 24, 2016 https://plas2016.programming.systems Co-located with CCS 2016 (https://www.sigsac.org/ccs/CCS2016/) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates Submissions due: 25 July 2016 (anywhere on Earth) Author notification: 29 August 2016 Final papers due: 12 September 2016 Workshop date: 24 October 2016 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. We are especially interested in position papers that are radical, forward-looking, and likely to lead to lively and insightful discussions that will influence future research that lies at the intersection of programming languages and security. The scope of PLAS includes, but is not limited to: * Compiler-based security mechanisms (e.g. security type systems) or runtime-based security mechanisms (e.g. inline reference monitors) * Program analysis techniques for discovering security vulnerabilities * Automated introduction and/or verification of security enforcement mechanisms * Language-based verification of security properties in software, including verification of cryptographic protocols * Specifying and enforcing security policies for information flow and access control * Model-driven approaches to security * Security concerns for Web programming languages * Language design for security in new domains such as cloud computing and IoT * Applications, case studies, and implementations of these techniques -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission Guidelines We invite both full papers and short papers. For short papers we especially encourage the submission of position papers that are likely to generate lively discussion. * Full papers should be at most 11 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references and appendices. Papers in this category are expected to have relatively mature content. Full paper presentations will be 25 minutes each. * Short papers should be at most 5 pages long, plus as many pages as needed for references. Papers that present radical, open-ended and forward-looking ideas are particularly welcome in this category, as are papers presenting preliminary and exploratory work. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend the phrase "Short Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. Short paper presentations will be 15 minutes each. Submissions should be PDF documents typeset in the ACM proceedings format using 10pt fonts. A SIGPLAN-approved template can be found at the following link: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. We recommend using this template. Both full and short papers must describe work not published in other refereed venues (see the SIGPLAN republication policy at http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication/ for more details). Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings, which will be distributed to the workshop participants and be available in the ACM Digital Library. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Program Committee Karthikeyan Bhargavan, INRIA Stephen Chong, Harvard University Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo Christian Hammer, Saarland University Limin Jia, Carnegie Mellon University Toby Murray (co-chair), University of Melbourne and Data61 Benjamin Pierce, University of Pennsylvania Tamara Rezk, INRIA Deian Stefan (co-chair), UC San Diego and Intrinsic Vanessa Teague, University of Melbourne Xi Wang, University of Washington To reach the PC chairs, send email to plas2016-chairs@programming.systems