Call for Papers
Ninth International Workshop on
Verification and Program Transformation

March 27th and 28th, 2021, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Co-Located with the 24th

The VPT 2021 event will consist of two parts:

• Day 1: Invited and contributed presentations of VPT 2020 workshop devoted to the achievements of Professor Alberto Pettorossi; VPT 2020 was postponed in line with ETAPS 2020, but its Proceedings has already appeared as EPTCS 320 volume;
• Day 2: new Invited and contributed presentations of VPT 2021 workshop.

Keynote Speaker:

• Alberto Pettorossi, DICII, University of Rome Tor Vergata, and IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy

• Lorenzo Clemente, University of Warsaw,
                               Department of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanic, Poland
• Alain Finkel, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, France
• John P. Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and
                               IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
• Moa Johansson, Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Neil D. Jones, Professor emeritus at University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Michael Leuschel, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Germany
• Maurizio Proietti, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy
• Sophie Renault, European Patent Office - The Hague, The Netherlands
• Andrzej Skowron, Professor emeritus at University of Warsaw, Poland

VPT-2021 Invited Speakers:

• Nikos Gorogiannis, Middlesex University, UK
• Fritz Henglein, DIKU, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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• TBA

The Ninth International Workshop on Verification and Program Transformation (VPT 2021) aims to bring together researchers working in the areas of Program Verification and Program Transformation.

The workshop will be held fully online mode by ETAPS decision, and remote participation and lectures and talks delivery will be possible.

The previous workshops in this series were:

• VPT 2013, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• VPT 2014, Vienna, Austria
• VPT 2015, London, UK
• VPT 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
• VPT 2017, Uppsala, Sweden
• MARS/VPT 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece
• VPT 2019 Genova, Italy
• VPT 2020, Dublin, Ireland
                        The VPT-2020 Workshop was postponed in-line with ETAPS-2020,
                        The Proceedings of VPT-2020 was published as EPTCS 320.

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
• Verifiable Computing and Program Transformation
• Case studies

Important Dates

• January 3rd, 2021: Abstract submission deadline (The pre-submission is optional.)
• January 24th, 2021: Regular paper submission deadline (The deadline has been extended.)
• January 24th, 2021: Extended abstracts and presentation-only papers submission deadline
• February 16th, 2021: Acceptance notification
• March 1st, 2021: Camera ready version (for the informal pre-proceedings)
• March 27th and 28th, 2021: Workshop
• May 10th, 2021: Revised paper submission for the formal proceedings in EPTCS deadline

Submission Guidelines

Authors should submit an electronic copy of the regular 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 2021 : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vpt2021 .

Regular 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.

Regular paper 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

We hope to publish the post-proceedings in the Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer (EPTCS) series (http://about.eptcs.org/), as was done for previous editions of VPT.

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:
Emanuele De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Rome, Italy
Grigory Fedyukovich, Princeton University, USA
Laurent Fribourg, CNRS & ENS Paris-Saclay, France
John P. Gallagher, Roskilde University, Denmark and IMDEA Software Institute, Spain
Geoff W. Hamilton, Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland
Alexei Lisitsa, The University of Liverpool, UK (co-Chair)
Andrei P. Nemytykh, Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia (co-Chair)
Philipp Rümmer, Uppsala University, Sweden
Peter Sestoft, The IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Germán Vidal, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
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TBA

Organisers:
Alexei Lisitsa (The University of Liverpool, UK)
Andrei P. Nemytykh (Program Systems Institute of RAS, Russia)

Contacts
E-mail:
Alexei Lisitsa, a.lisitsa@csc.liv.ac.uk
Andrei P. Nemytykh, nemytykh@math.botik.ru
Web: http://refal.botik.ru/vpt/vpt2021/
         https://etaps.org/2021/workshops