Call for Papers
Fourth International Workshop on
Verification and Program Transformation
April 2nd, 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Co-Located with the 19th

The Fourth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation (VPT 2016) aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of Program Verification and Program Transformation.

The previous workshops in this series were:

• VPT 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• VPT 2014, Vienna, Austria
• VPT 2015, London, UK

The workshop solicits research, position, application, and system description papers with a special emphasis on case studies, demonstrating viability of the interactions between the research fields of program transformation and program verification in a broad sense. Also papers in related areas, such as program testing and program synthesis are welcomed.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Verification by Program Transformation
• Verification Techniques in Program Transformation and Synthesis
• Verification and Certification of Programs Transformations
• Program Analysis and Transformation
• Program Testing and Transformation
• Case studies

Important Dates

• January 11th, 2016: Abstract submission deadline
• January 18th, 2016: Paper submission deadline
• February 15th, 2016: Acceptance notification
• March 7th, 2016: Camera ready version
• April 2nd, 2016: Workshop

Submission Guidelines
Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper in PDF, formatted in the EasyChair LaTeX Style (http://www.easychair.org/publications/?page=1594225690), via the Easychair submission website for VPT 2016 : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpt2016

Papers must describe original work that has not been published, or currently submitted, to a journal, conference, or workshop with refereed proceedings. Also papers that already appeared in unpublished or informally published workshop proceedings may be submitted.

Each submission must include on its first page the paper title; authors and their affiliations; contact author's email; abstract; and three to four keywords that will be used to assist the PC in selecting appropriate reviewers for the paper. Page numbers should appear on the manuscript to help the reviewers in writing their report.

Submissions should not exceed 15 pages including references but excluding well-marked appendices not intended for publication. Reviewers are not required to read the appendices, and thus papers should be intelligible without them.

Proceedings
Original accepted papers will be published in a volume of the EasyChair Proceedings (EPiC) series.

If the workshop will attract sufficiently many high quality papers, a special issue of a journal on the topic of the workshop will be considered. The special issue will be open to high quality papers accepted for presentation in previous editions of the workshop.

Program Committee:
Fabio Fioravanti, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
Geoff W. Hamilton, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland (chair)
Michael Hanus, University of Kiel, Germany
Boris Konev, The University of Liverpool, UK
Michael Leuschel, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
Alexei Lisitsa, The University of Liverpool, UK
Andrei P. Nemytykh, Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia
Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy
Peter Sestoft, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Morten H. Sørensen, Formalit, Denmark
Germán Vidal, Technical University of Valéncia, Spain

Organisers:
Geoff W. Hamilton (Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland)
Alexei Lisitsa (The University of Liverpool, UK)
Andrei P. Nemytykh (Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia)

Contacts
E-mail:
Geoff W. Hamilton, hamilton@computing.dcu.ie
Alexei Lisitsa, a.lisitsa@csc.liv.ac.uk
Andrei P. Nemytykh, nemytykh@math.botik.ru
Web: http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2016/
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