====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- Fifth International Workshop on Dynamic Analysis (WODA 2007) Minneapolis, MN, USA May 22, 2007 http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/woda/ In conjunction with the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2007) ====================================================================== ------------------------------- Theme and goals of the workshop ------------------------------- Dynamic analysis techniques are increasingly used to complement more traditional static analysis. Approaches based on static analysis operate on a static representation of the program, consider all possible (and some infeasible) behaviors, and are thus complete, but often imprecise. Dynamic analysis techniques, conversely, reason over a set of program executions and analyze only observed behaviors. Dynamic analysis includes both offline techniques, which operate on some captured representation of the system's behavior (e.g., a trace), and runtime techniques, which analyzes the system's behavior on the fly, while the system is executing. Although inherently incomplete, dynamic analyses can be more precise than their static counterpart and show promise in aiding the understanding, development, and maintenance of robust and reliable large-scale systems. In the last years, both practitioners and researchers are realizing that the limitations of static analysis can be overcome by integrating static and dynamic analysis, and that the performance of dynamic analysis can in turn be improved by leveraging static analysis. The overall goal of WODA 2007 is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in all areas of dynamic analysis to discuss new issues, share results and ongoing works, and foster collaborations. This workshop will focus on achieving a consensus among the participants as to the structure of the field, the important future research directions this field should take, inputs needed from other research areas, and outputs that could benefit other research domains. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Development of dynamic analysis tools and frameworks - Efficient instrumentation techniques - Fault detection and debugging - Optimization techniques - Program evolution - Remote analysis and measurement of software systems - Runtime monitoring - Software testing - Statistical reasoning techniques - Synergies between static and dynamic analysis techniques - Visualization and classification of program behavior The workshop will be a one-full-day workshop, structured to encourage discussion and develop research collaborations. All presentations will be limited to 20 minutes. Each session will include three presentations and additional time at the end for a mini-panel with the presenters, to foster discussion. Accepted WODA papers will be included in the ICSE proceedings and thus be accessible to the workshop participants before the workshop to facilitate interaction and discussion. WODA papers will also be published in the ACM Digital Library. In addition, selected papers will be invited for submission to a special issue of Elsevier's international journal on Information and Software Technology. ---------------------------------------- Submission guidelines and review process ---------------------------------------- Papers must follow the ICSE 2007 Format and Submission Guidelines (http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/icse07/index.php?id=69) and must not exceed 7 pages, including figures and references. All submissions must be in English. Papers must be submitted electronically, in PDF format. Each submitted paper will be reviewed by at least three PC members. Acceptance will be primarily based on content quality, workshop relevance, and potential to generate discussion. --------------- Important Dates --------------- Paper submission: Monday, February 5, 2007 Author notification: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Camera-ready copy: Friday, March 2, 2007 Workshop: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 --------------------- Workshop Organization --------------------- Workshop chairs: Alessandro Orso, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Andreas Zeller, Saarland University, Germany Program committee: Jonathan Cook, New Mexico State University, USA Brian Demsky, University of California, Irvine, USA Matt Dwyer, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Neelam Gupta, University of Arizona, USA Ben Liblit, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA Darko Marinov, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Ana Milanova, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Mauro Pezze', University Milano Bicocca, Italy Andy Podgurski, Case Western Reserve University, USA Steven Reiss, Brown University, USA Tao Xie, North Carolina State University, USA ====================================================================== For more information, check the workshop web page at http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/woda/ or send an email to woda07@measure.cc.gt.atl.ga.us. ======================================================================