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The 5th ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Certified Programs and Proofs (CPP 2016) in cooperation with ACM SIGLOG Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA January 18-19, 2016 http://people.csail.mit.edu/adamc/cpp16/ Co-located with POPL 2016 (http://conf.researchr.org/home/POPL-2016) Call for Papers =============== CPP is an international forum on theoretical and practical topics in all areas, including computer science, mathematics, and education, that consider certification as an essential paradigm for their work. Certification here means formal, mechanized verification of some sort, preferably with production of independently checkable certificates. CPP 2016 is the fifth in the CPP conference series and will be co-located with POPL 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Florida from 18-19 January 2016. Important dates --------------- Abstract submission: 7 October 2015, anywhere on Earth (11:59 pm, UTC-12) Full paper submission: 12 October 2015, anywhere on Earth (11:59 pm, UTC-12) Notification: 18 November 2015 Final versions due: 4 December 2015 Conference dates: 18-19 January 2016 Scope ----- Suggested, but not exclusive, specific topics of interest for submissions include: - certified or certifying programming, compilation, linking, OS kernels, runtime systems, and security monitors; - program logics, type systems, and semantics for certified code; - certified decision procedures, mathematical libraries, and mathematical theorems; - proof assistants and proof theory; - new languages and tools for certified programming; - program analysis, program verification, and proof-carrying code; - certified secure protocols and transactions; - certificates for decision procedures, including linear algebra, polynomial systems, SAT, SMT, and unification in algebras of interest; - certificates for semi-decision procedures, including equality, first-order logic, and higher-order unification; - certificates for program termination; - logics for certifying concurrent and distributed programs; - higher-order logics, logical systems, separation logics, and logics for security; - teaching mathematics and computer science with proof assistants. Submission instructions ----------------------- Submitted papers should not exceed 12 pages in the ACM SIGPLAN Proceedings format. Shorter papers are welcome and will be given equal consideration. The proceedings of the conference will be published by the ACM. Templates for ACM SIGPLAN format can be found on the ACM SIGPLAN website: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author. Papers should be submitted in PDF format, through the EasyChair submission page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cpp2016 Abstracts must be submitted by the deadline given above. The deadline for full papers falls one week later, and authors have the option to withdraw their papers during the window between the two. Each submission must be written in English and provide sufficient detail to allow the program committee to assess the merits of the paper. It should begin with a succinct statement of the issues, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance and relevance to the conference, all phrased for the non-specialist. Technical and formal developments directed to the specialist should follow. If the submission reports on a computer-checked formalization, code, or the results of a computation, a link to the relevant data should be provided. References and comparisons with related work should be included. Papers not conforming to the above requirements concerning format and length may be rejected without further consideration. The results must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other published conferences or workshops. The PC chairs should be informed of closely related work submitted to a conference or journal in advance of submission. Original formal proofs of known results in mathematics or computer science are among the targets. One author of each accepted paper is expected to present it at the conference. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) Program Committee ----------------- Jeremy Avigad (co-chair), Carnegie Mellon University, US Sandrine Blazy, Université de Rennes 1, France Adam Chlipala (co-chair), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Thierry Coquand, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden John Harrison, Intel, US Chris Hawblitzel, Microsoft Research, Redmond, US Cătălin Hriţcu, INRIA Paris-Rocquencourt, France Brian Huffman, Galois, Inc., US Laura Kovács, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Peter Lammich, Technische Universität München, Germany Hongjin Liang, University of Science and Technology of China, China Dan Licata, Wesleyan University, US Panagiotis Manolios, Northeastern University, US Dale Miller, INRIA Saclay and LIX, France Dominic Mulligan, Cambridge University, UK Lawrence Paulson, Cambridge University, UK Andrei Popescu, Middlesex University London, UK Claudio Sacerdoti Coen, University of Bologna, Italy Zachary Tatlock, University of Washington, US Cesare Tinelli, University of Iowa, US