First Workshop on Automated Deduction for Separation Logics (ADSL)

In recent times, program verification, and particularly deductive program verification, has made significant progress. This progress is in part due to the incorporation of logical backends such as SMT solvers and other automated theorem-proving technologies. In parallel to these developments, the verification of heap manipulating programs, and static analyses in particular, has met with substantial successes, largely due to the development of Separation Logics.

Separation Logics allow local reasoning by means of built-in spatial atoms (empty heap, points-to) and spatial connectives (separating conjunction and implication, also known as the star and the magic wand). Combining this power with induction/recursion allows

  1. writing elegant and concise specifications for a large class of recursive data structures, and,
  2. capturing the semantics of programs with pointer updates by rather simple Hoare-style calculi.

Such expressivity comes with the inherent difficulty of automating these logics. As a consequence, some deductive program verifiers based on separation logic do not offer automation for handling arbitrary recursive predicates. Other verifiers support inductive reasoning but with various compromises, such as restricted support for the ground theories, or tractability issues.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together academic researchers and industrial practitioners focused on improving the state of the art of automated deduction methods for Separation Logics. We will consider technical submissions presenting work on the following topics (the list is not exclusive):

The workshop is affiliated with the 33rd Annual ACM/IEEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2018) and part of the Federated Logic Conference 2018 (FLOC 2018).

Invited speakers

Programme

The programme of ADSL 2018 is now available.

Important dates

Papers due: April 20th 2018 (extended)

Author notification: May 15th 2018

Workshop: 13 July 2018

Program committee

PC Member Affiliation
Philippa Gardner Imperial College London
Josh Berdine Facebook
James Brotherston University College London
Stéphane Demri CNRS, LSV, ENS Paris-Saclay
Nikos Gorogiannis Middlesex University London and Facebook
Christoph Haase University of Oxford
Radu Iosif VERIMAG, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes
Bart Jacobs University of Leuven
Etienne Lozes University of Nice
Daniel Méry LORIA, Nancy
Peter O’Hearn University College London, Facebook
Madhusudan Parthasarathy University of Illinois
Nicolas Peltier LIG, CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes
Thomas Wies Courant Institute, New York University

SL-COMP

As part of this workshop, we intend to organize a second edition of the Separation Logic Competition (SL-COMP) for solvers targeting fragments of Separation Logics. The page for SL-COMP 2018 is now available.

Tool and SL-COMP chair    
Mihaela Sighireanu   LIAFA, University of Paris Diderot

Organisation

Radu Iosif   Nikos Gorogiannis
Université Grenoble Alpes (France)   Middlesex University and Facebook (UK)


The ADSL workshop is sponsored by