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SPACE'08 CALL FOR PAPERS Fourth Workshop on Semantics, Program Analysis, and Computing Environments for Memory Management January 13, 2008 San Francisco, California Co-located with POPL'08 Sponsored by ACM SIGPLAN http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Conferences/space2008 ------------------------------------------------------------ Memory management is a difficult engineering task. We desperately need new tools and analyses that can identify memory management errors in low-level C/C++ code, such as dereferencing a pointer to an object that has been recycled or failing to reclaim an object. We also need new data structures and algorithms to avoid overheads such as fragmentation and synchronization. High-level languages such as Java or ML insulate the programmer from many of these problems through automatic memory management techniques (e.g., garbage collection). But standard GC techniques are not always suitable for all domains. For instance, programmers for embedded and real-time systems need static guarantees about resource requirements that are difficult to meet with standard collection algorithms. New languages, logics, analyses, and type systems are needed that let us reason about the management of memory, time, and other critical resources, whether using manual or automatic methods. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers for a fruitful exchange of ideas on semantics, program analysis and computing environments for memory management. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * alternative memory management strategies (e.g., region-based) * memory management for constrained (e.g., embedded, real-time) systems * analyses for optimization of memory management * analyses for faults in manual memory management * types, semantics, logics, and calculi for memory management * applications of statically controlled memory management * empirical results for new or existing memory management strategies TIME AND PLACE: The workshop takes place in San Francisco, California on January 13, 2008. It is co-located with POPL 2008, which takes place January 10-12, 2008. IMPORTANT DATES: * Submission deadline: Friday, November 9, 2007 * Notification: Friday, November 30, 2007 * Workshop: Sunday, January 13, 2008 FORMAT: The workshop will consist of: * 25-minute presentations by authors of selected, peer-reviewed papers. * 10-minute short presentations (non-peer reviewed) * one or two 45-minute invited talks (to be determined) The long papers will be selected by a program committee and only "lightly" reviewed. Long papers should be 8 pages in 9pt ACM SIGPLAN style, excluding appendices. Additional pages for clearly-marked appendices are allowed, but reviewers are not required to read appendices. Our goal in selecting papers is to meet our time requirements and present a balanced program. Short papers should be 4 pages or less. We hope to include all of the short presentations, but may be forced to select a subset depending on the number of submissions. Again, our goal is to have a productive, interactive workshop. We will distribute an informal proceedings at the workshop only. We do not consider the proceedings to be a formal (citable) publication so that any works in progress presented here may be submitted later for formal publication. The informal proceedings for the workshop will consist of the accepted papers, and titles and abstracts for the short presentations. STEERING COMMITTEE: * Richard Jones, University of Kent * Greg Morrisett, Harvard University * Peter O'Hearn, Queen Mary University of London * Martin Elsman, IT University of Copenhagen * Fritz Henglein, University of Copenhagen PROGRAM CHAIRS: * General chair: Michael Hicks, Univ. of Maryland, College Park * Program chair: Radu Rugina, Cornell University PROGRAM COMMITTEE: * David F. Bacon, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Josh Berdine, Microsoft Research, Cambridge * Dino Distefano, Queen Mary, University of London * Matthew Fluet, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago * Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research, Redmond * Dan Grossman, University of Washington * Simon Peyton Jones, Microsoft Research, Cambridge * Bjarne Steensgaard, Microsoft Research, Redmond * Eran Yahav, IBM TJ Watson Research Center