ECOOP / Workshop 21

International Workshop on Aliasing, Confinement and Ownership

The power of objects lies in the flexibility of their interconnection structure. But this flexibility comes at a cost.  Because an object can be modified via any alias, object-oriented programs are hard to understand, maintain, and analyse.  Aliasing makes objects depend on their environment in unpredictable ways, breaking the encapsulation necessary for reliable software components, making it difficult to reason about and optimise programs, obscuring the flow of information between objects, and introducing security problems.  Aliasing is a fundamental difficulty, but we accept its presence. Instead we seek techniques for describing, reasoning about, restricting, analysing, and preventing the connections between objects and/or the flow of information between them.

But how do we take arms against the sea of objects?

This workshop aims to bring together researchers to exchange and discuss ideas, and to develop an agenda of the most pressing issues to investigate in the near future.

Main Topics

• models, type and other formal systems, programming language mechanisms, analysis and design techniques, patterns and notations for expressing object ownership, aliasing, confinement, uniqueness, and/or information flow.
• optimisation techniques, analysis algorithms, libraries, applications, and novel approaches exploiting these issues.
• empirical studies of programs or experience reports from programming systems designed with these issues in mind.
• novel applications of aliasing management techniques.

Paper Submission

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