VPT 2018
Sixth International Workshop on
Verification and Program Transformation
April 20th, 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece
Co-Located with MARS 2018
MARS/VPT 2018 is a satellite workshop of the 21st

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers working in the fields of Program Verification and Program Transformation.

There is a great potential for beneficial interactions between these two fields because:

• On one hand, methods and tools developed in the field of Program Transformation such as partial evaluation, fold/unfold transformations, and supercompilation, have all been applied with success for the verification of infinite state and parameterized systems.
• On the other hand, model checking, abstract interpretation, SAT and SMT solving and automated theorem proving have been used to enhance program transformation techniques. Moreover, the formal certification of program transformation tools, such as automated refactoring tools and compilers, has recently attracted considerable interest, posed major challenges.

The workshop will provide a forum where researchers from these fields may interact and foster new developments.

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.

The workshop offers twofold benefits for the verification community. On the one hand it will rise awareness of and stimulate the development of novel verification methods and techniques. On the other hand it will draw attention of the community to the novel and challenging verification problems and research opportunities.

The workshop will be the sixth in the series after

• the First VPT 2013 workshop affiliated with CAV 2013 (held on 13.07-14.07, St. Petersburg, Russia);
• the Second VPT 2014 workshop affiliated with CAV 2014 and VSL 2014 (held on 17.07-18.07, Vienna, Austria);
• the Third VPT 2015 workshop affiliated with ETAPS 2015 (held on 11.04, London, UK);
• the Fourth VPT 2016 workshop affiliated with ETAPS 2016 (held on 2.04, Eindhoven, The Netherlands);
• the Fifth VPT 2017 workshop affiliated with ETAPS 2017 (held on 29.04, Uppsala, Sweden).

Call for Papers

Programme

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the paper in PDF, formatted in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science LaTeX Style (http://style.eptcs.org/), via the Easychair submission website for VPT 2018 ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpt2018 ) by 22nd January.

Papers must describe original work that has not been published, nor is presently 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 (please contact the PC co-chairs in case of questions).

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.

Revised versions of all the accepted papers, taking into account the feedback received at the workshop, will be published in a volume of the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer (EPTCS) series after the workshop. If the workshop attracts 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/past editions of the workshop.